Some Key West Scenery

[ReefLady]

The Key West lighthouse:

One of many wild roosters that give the place so much character

A view from the Schooner Western Union

Another

This is the Western Union, taken from a deep-sea fishing boat (I caught and released a 6-foot nurse shark!!!)

Hope you enjoyed. More to come.

T

 

[stuart007]

Amazing pics, Travis. Do you happen to remember some of the camera settings you used for the amazing sun setting pictures?

 

[Travelin Reef]

Wow- we sure have some talented people on this site.
just Beautiful. Would love to be there some day.

thanks for sharing

 

[fidojoe]

Awesome pics Trav! Hope you had a fun trip.

 

[Curtswearing]

Congrats on the recent nuptuals. It looks beautiful.

Although, I don't think I want a rooster anywhere near my honeymoon suite.

 

[blue_eyes53813]

I lived in Key west for 2 years while my ex was in the navy. I really miss it. Thanks for the pictures.

 

[LuckyInk]

I'm inspired! Travis what is it going to take for you to let me paint some of these scenes??!!

 

[coral keeper]

awesome i was in that very place last year with my wife it is great. The sunset festival in mallory square is a blast. I have a friend that lives down there and works on a para- sailing boat. Not hard to take. Thanks for reminding me how beautiful it is in key west.

 

[Woodstock]

Awesome pictures!! Thanks!

 

[ReefLady]

Thanks guys! Lucky go for it, might just cost you a good deal on one of your prints.

Stuart, I shot all of those with the 10D and 28-135 IS lens, and a circular polarizing filter set at varying strengths. My only regret is that I shot them JPEG, RAW would have yielded many more good pictures. Exposure was tough with the setting sun, I finally wound up metering on different areas of the water and taking several shots- sort of bracketing. I didn't want to miss the opportunity by fooling with exposure compensation when the light level was changing so much. Other stuff: Aperture priority at F/8, ISO 100, matrix metering mode.

T

 

[AustinReef]

I just came back from Key West. How did you like Duval Street? The fishing and diving down there is incredible.

 

[AustinReef]

Beautiful pics BTW

 

[Gina]

Beautiful shots Trav! I hope someday to go there. Have heard alot about the Keys. Besides the shark, was the deep sea fishing good? What else were you catching?

 

[ReefLady]

Duval was a lot of fun, but our favorite bar was a local hangout just off Duval called the Green Parrot.

Fishing was OK, caught several yellowtails and I pulled in a couple keeper grey snapper, which put up one heck of a fight. I don't eat fish though, so I don't really care if they're keepers or not- I'm in it for the fight.

 

[SZHTTM]

Travis, those are some incredible photographs!!!!

By the way, did you get any shoots of you doing the "Duval Crawl"?

Thanks and Have Fun!!!;

 

[ReefLady]

LOL, no, bringing $2500 worth of camera equipment on the Duval Crawl just sounds like an awfully bad idea, now doesn’t it?

 

[Spooda420]

very nice pictures, I hope you enjoyed you time away
c

 

[reefrunner]

The sunsets are stunning, kinda ticks me off, I live in FL, on the west coast, and I can never find that type of sunset to shoot, I think I hate you Hope you had a great time, and if you did...that it's the worst part of your marriage