Saint Barth – Part XII

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Didier

Some new big panoramas (created with Panorama Factory).

The first one is from the Colombier beach (8’480 x 2’728, 16.8 MB)
The second one from the scenery behind the Saline beach. You can see also the small path which is arriving to the Saline beach (14’957 x 2’277, 27.9 MB)
The third one is giving an overlook on the old salins of Saint Barth (5’703 x 2’365, 12.2 MB)

Saint Barth – Part XI

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Didier

The business and financial crisis seems not to have a big impact here in St Barth, at least in the Gustavia’s port. Have a look at the boats. AND some of them cannot enter the port, as they are longer than 62m, which is the max in this harbor…

Saint Barth – Part X

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Didier

In one week, we had about 5 minutes of rain. But then, it is raining really like cats and dogs!

Tropical shower :-)

Saint Barth – Part IX

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Didier

And today, Saline Beach, I think the largest in Saint Barth. Very nice actually, we like it a lot! Some pictures and as usual now, a video (a bit longer this time) realized with MS Windows Movie Maker. It is not Adobe Premiere for sure, but not sooo bad for a small sequence.

http://visuals.didierbeck.com/ria/ShizVidz-2008120101.swf

Saint Barth – Part VIII

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Didier

The Saint Jean Beach, as usual with beautiful colors. Lots of families are coming here, as the beach is quite protected from the swell and the biggest waves.

And a short video taken from this beach!

http://visuals.didierbeck.com/ria/ShizVidz-2008120101.swf

Saint Barth – Part VII

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Didier

We had our first snorkeling session on last Wednesday but the vision was not ideal under water, as there is still a quite strong swell. Anyway, I saw my first sea-turtle in Saint Jean Bay, exactly at the same place as last year, just after the white boat in the middle of the picture below!

Bottom is at about 3-4m there. Sea-turtle was about motionless and eating some underwater herbs. The turtle was about 80cm long. It is also the first time that I see a pilot fish on top of the turtle shell!

I have quite massively adjusted the pictures (contrast, color and saturation). The pictures are a bit pixelated but still from far better as I have thought!

Camera: Canon IXUS 700 with a Canon waterproof case (WP-DC70).

Bigger resolution available on smugmug, just click on the pictures!

Saint Barth – Part VI

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Didier

On last Tuesday, Saint Barth was celebrating its Carnaval. Funny to participate to a carnival with such kind of temperature and scenery!

There is also a flickr dedicated photostream here.

Saint Barth – Part V

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Didier

Some fantastic panoramic views from the terrace of our (rented) villa in Saint Barth. These panoramic pictures are based on 5 to 7 pictures and are stitched with The Panorama Factory (v3.4).

Be careful, the original versions are quite big: