📸 Beautiful Beaches of St. Thomas & St. John - 6 Panoramic Photos from our Cruise by SteemPowerPics
I wanted to take some time to share pictures from the hurricane ravaged islands of St. Thomas & St. John. These are a few panoramic pictures taken 1 year ago of the island's famous turquoise waters and white sand beaches as they were before Hurricane Irma devastated the islands last week.
We have been left speechless by the first images coming out of the islands we love so much and spent the last few days going through our cruise albums looking at pictures not knowing when we will be able to visit there again. The islanders are generally good people and it gives us a sense of helplessness seeing their loss at a distance.
As you may already know, I have a passion for photography and whenever we travel I like to spend a little extra time capturing wide panoramic photos of the landscapes. Many of these pictures and ones coming in my next post of St. Martin will be printed in large format on metal or canvas and hung up around the house.
I hope you enjoy these photos of the way things were, and hopefully become again in time...
The Oasis of the Seas ship we were sailing on in Royal Caribbean's custom designed port in St. Thomas built just to fit the Oasis class cruise ships.
The images coming out of the islands directly impacted by the hurricane are showing 90-100% of all forest and vegetation have been stripped from the islands. The tropical forests on these islands will take decades to recover and will most likely never be the same again.
Before and After View of the islands from Space.
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Love the photos, especially the ones with the cruise ship. And wow at those satellite photos. What's even crazier is that now there's another hurricane headed for the Caribbean: Maria.
Hey Tech, thanks. Yeah I like doing the panoramic shots of the islands, it's the only way to really capture the full extent of the beauty.
It's heartbreaking to know they are facing CAT4 just a week after a CAT5.
Did you take these photos with an iPhone, or do you have a special lens or something?
They were taken with my Fujifilm XP80 sport camera. It has a good panoramic mode built in. I also use my Samsung S5 at times, but the resolution is better on the Fuji for large format printing.
Nice. I have a Canon Rebel 2Ti, but I've never bothered checking if it has the panoramic mode built in. I'm gonna do that now :-)
:-) Yeah my Nikon does not have it, just the smaller fuji sport camera.
Well you want to check out my latest post on weather control then... Sad... Also I found it weird that all those clouds seem to form around vertical up/down lines.. Weird.
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Really sad to see this my friend! We have cyclones here in our region, and i've witnessed some very powerful ones destroying everything on their passage! Not something I wish to live again!
Oh no another one coming? That's not good. let's pray for the best.
So true - we have been lucky the last 12 years, kind of a dry spell for major hurricanes. This year Mother Nature is unloading on us all over here.
And yet I see some articles on Steemit that claim these hurricanes are hyped, I have lived through two devastating ones, one left 5,000 dead and the other one over 10,000, these things are no conspiracy theory are as real as anything can get.
For sure! They are no joke. It tore us a new hole here in Florida as well, but mild compared to what they suffered in the islands.
And now to add insult to injury we have Hurricane Maria expected to be a CAT 4 into the St Thomas area and PR again by Wednesday.
Yes, I've been monitoring that, it's a really bad year.
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Terrible and sad hurricane-after pics. Hope the islands recover soon. Mother nature has its way of healing itself.
I hope so. They were beautiful islands with such nice people.
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