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Sitting on the balcony of the stateroom with the camera resting on the rail, sipping a glass of wine, reading on the Kindle, admiring the ever changing sunset = one perfect vacation ! wish I was there right now....

January has been a month of flash backs and new photography; but not nearly as much new photography as I would have liked - work continues to interfere with that !

1. Dawn on the Adriatic, 2. Blue Churn, 3. To Infinity & Beyond, 4. 100 Years, 5. Year of the Dragon, 6. Infatuation, 7. Wintry Glow, 8. Yachts in Venice - or "How the 1% Live"...., 9. St. Mark's Square, 10. Mount Moran Stormy Sunset, 11. Wintry Sunrise, 12. Dangling, 13. Chocolate Sushi, 14. Out to Sea, 15. Still Clinging, 16. Orange Sunshine, 17. One Fine Morning, 18. Celebrating Four Years of Flickr Fun, 19. Time's a Wastin', 20. Western Spotlight, 21. Roses in January !!!, 22. More Selective Focus Experiments, 23. What's Your Favorite Flavor?, 24. Purple Bokeh-licious, 25. Limited Focus, 26. Camellia - The Rose of Winter, 27. Where Shall I Go?, 28. January, 29. Pink Camellia - The Rose of Winter, 30. Do You Believe in Angels?, 31. An Orchid in Winter, 32. January 1st

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We might have actually been in the Ionian Sea when this was captured; they don't have signs out there to tell you where one sea begins and the other ends....

The predawn colors cast a rosy glow over sky and sea; you can see why I never slept in during the cruise !

Watching the waves churned up by the cruise ship is mesmerizing and hypnotic. This is somewhere on the Adriatic Sea about half way between Venice and our first port of call in Corfu. Sea days (when there are no ports of call) are very relaxing and you can take all the time you want to just watch the waves - I guess that's why they call it vacation....

The state room corridors on a large cruise ship are great natural vanishing points; though I always had the camera with me, it was difficult to get a clean shot of the halls; they are frequently clogged with housekeeping carts, room service detritus, passengers, stewards, etc. I think this view was very early in the morning when I was heading to the workout room to work off the effects of the excellent dining aboard ship. The handrails come in handy during turbulence - or if you've had a few too many drinks.... not that I would know about that.

All of the corridors look identical, so you can tell whether you're going forwards or backwards by following the fish on the carpet - they swim forwards !

The ship is 965 feet long & this corridor is probably ~900 feet - 3 football fields !