Kasese, Uganda

Looks a little windy there.

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Rhodes Island, Greece

” Summerland

Oil on Canvas /  2007 / Original Size:117w x 107h cm

Original Status: Available for Sale “

Such a detailed, beautiful painting!

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Alexandria, Virginia

rrchase writes, “After letting the painting sit for a while, some parts of the painting started to look unfinished after all.  It’s always hard for me to work on a painting after I think it’s done. I’m afraid I will mess it up, make it worse.  But finally I have to do it, after I realize something is not right.”

I was thinking today as I was reworking the painting, that using the right brush seems to be as important as choosing the right color.  The wrong shape brush can totally ruin the effect I am trying to create.  And, as always, changing one part of the painting means the other parts change too, so I had to redo the ocean part, boat and sky today.  I think the water still needs more work.  There isn’t enough detail towards the front of the painting now.

final version? “

Wonderful painting!

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Thailand

William writes, “On my first day in Thailand I forked out the same amount of money as I spent in two months in India and all I got was a couple of Visas and a Scuba Diving course. I had mixed apprehensions about the whole ordeal after my first few hours in Bangkok, most of which had been spent asleep in the back of a taxi cab and later passed out on the bed of my seemingly luxurious hotel room after 85hrs (yes that’s Eighty Five) in the lowest class of a train crossing India.

Koh Tao bounced in front of me as the ‘high-speed’ catamaran pulled into the dock. I had arrived on one of those Thai islands which are famed for their perfect white sand beaches, clear blue water, and excellently cheap diving qualifications. I had been promised a week in paradise.

While the diving was excellent, and the group course turned into private lessons seeing as nobody else had booked up, the looming full moon lay just a few days away, and traveling in a duo meant I had compromises to make. Don’t get me wrong, I do love to party, I started clubbing almost half a decade before I was of a legal age, but when the party is 10,000 morons on a beach, I’d rather be counted out.

I went nonetheless, it was everything I had expected and more (and worse). So I was glad to get back on Koh Tao and continue the Scuba course. I love the sea. I live a stones throw away from it in Brighton. So spending hours on a boat and seeing what lies in the ocean was a dream.”

Sounds like quite the adventure.  Such a colorful, beautiful photo!

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Porto Belo, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Looks like that must be a lot of fun!

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Annapolis, Maryland

Great scene, almost looks like a painting!

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Seattle, Washington

Andy writes, “Seattle steals my heart for so many reasons. My girlfriend is the primary cause of this, but so is the beer, coffee, mountains, water, KEXP, lack of New York Hipsters… and so on and so forth. Well, there are a few hipsters – but they’re not so bad.

A huge draw for me is the water. Seattle has so many lakes and passages, and even the sound. My girlfriend’s family has a sailboat, and so do I (which hit the water for the first time during my cousin’s birthday party over the weekend). Lake Union is probably my favorite spot to sail, but Greenlake is a nice spot for my little boat. Here are a few shots that were snapped from the Roche family boat while out on Lake Union and Lake Washington.”

Great one! 

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St. Augustine, Florida

sjane84 writes, “My anniversary was last weekend…7 years!! So where was I at this time 7 years ago?? In St. Augustine, FL on my honeymoon. This is one of the last days we spent there. We left just as a tropical storm was heading in.

I really wanted to go para sailing. The water was choppy that day and something was swimming in circles below us (I don’t care what the company that took us out on the boat said, I KNOW they were sharks, not dolphins!!). All in all, the honeymoon was fantastic. Not only was it a chance to celebrate our marriage, but a break from being mom and dad to two beautiful, exhausting, 3 month old, twin cuties. It also made me realize how much I actually missed the little monsters!!

Looking down from the sky”

Sounds like a wonderful time!

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Rockledge, Florida

“Relaxing Day” indeed!

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Wroxham, Norfolk, England

sharongellyroo writes,”…we took a day boat out from Wroxham, on the Norfolk Broads on an absolutely perfect day.”

Looking pretty relaxed, I must say!
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