Category: Cuba

346/365 GTMO SUNSET

8/27/2015

Today's Throw Back Thursday is from a sunset in Girl Scout Beach, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. I took this picture when I was deployed there in 2011-2012. Enjoy!!!

GTMO Sunset

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It's been a while since I did anything in black and white. I went down to The Slot diving spot in Guantánamo Bay and thought about doing a long exposure with a B+W 10 stop neutral density filter--- I was after the silky look of the water as well as the movement of the clouds.

When doing my post processing I did a conversion to black and white and also cropped the image so that the naturally ocurring "S" shape will be accentuated. I'm pretty happy about the results!

Drama at The Slot!

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MORE GUANTANAMO BAY PICTURES

1/18/2013

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I've never done a mega post of pictures, so here I go!

While stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba I took my camera and took advantage of the opportunity and snapped pictures around the bay. I have to say that the skies over GTMO are pretty strange. Rarely you will see clouds and when present they will be pretty high up in the sky. Sunsets were for the most part boring but I did manage to took some amazing scenes.

Sunset at "The Slot"

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Sunset at Girl Scout Beach

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Cactus by the sea

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Drama at "The Slot"

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Golden Splash Windward Point

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Sea Rocks

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GUANTANAMO BAY LIGHTHOUSE

1/12/2013

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The lighthouse, made all of steel, is 60 feet tall with 67 steps and has a molded copper cupola containing a weather vane with the compass coordinate of "O" for Ouest (Spanish for West). The interior is sleeved in tongue-and-groove mahogany. It was built in 1904 in the U.S., shipped here to Guantanamo Bay, and assembled here. It ran on whale oil as an official navigation light until 1955 until the light was decommissioned and moved to the Coast Guard museum in the States.

In the picture, you will see small boats on the lower right corner of the photograph. Those are some of the boats used by Cubans to flee Castro's Cuba in the mid-90's when thousands of Cuban refugees fled their homeland. The remains of about 10 boats are mounted within the lighthouse compound grounds for visitors to view.

Windward Point Lighthouse

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SUNSET OVER LEEWARD SIDE IN GUANTÁNAMO BAY

11/12/2012

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It's no secret that I love to capture sunsets. They're unique and different every single day. Here, the sun was checking out for the day over the Leeward side of Guantánamo Bay.