The second at-sea day, and the last day of the cruise. Tomorrow morning we arrive back in Tampa.
Another day of reading, some writing in the cruise journal, going into the pool for exercise (well, barely), and mostly doing nothing. Today’s lunch was Indonesian themed (there has been a different country theme every day), which was a special treat for us.
For a while on this beautiful sunny day, a brown pelican is following us, circling around the ship. I’m not sure if the pelican was looking for fish that come to the surface around the ship, or hoping to catch food blown overboard.
We had a beautiful sunset. After processing the photos I took, I noticed that one of the photos gives a good example of why I love my camera so much. The last two of the photos above are actually the same photo. The middle photo is more or less how the photo showed straight out of the camera. The right one is the same photo, but with a 6 stop exposure correction (for non-photographers: this means that the photo is brightened by a factor if 64). With that much correction, what looked like black silhouettes of people actually contain a lot of detail: it almost looks like a regular daytime photo. And even with this much correction, the colors still look almost natural.