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Elysse in Roatan

[each thumbnail below is a link to a larger image.]

this is a beautiful shot of the honduran sky as backdrop to the most beautiful sight in the known universe, one miss elysse duncan.  she is sitting, of course, on the bowsprit of the wanderer as it sits docked in brick bay.  in fact, she's in exactly the same spot as she was on christmas night, 25 december 1999, when the breathtaking beauty of the stars and the astounding beauty of her soul became too much for me, and i asked her to marry me.  (she said "okay".) 402 x 600 JPEG, 24K
here's a crop out of that one, because i like that picture a lot. 290 x 600 JPEG, 23K
not every day was sunny, and we didn't always move under the power of the wind.  the wanderer has a huge diesel engine (which lives under the galley) to move it around without wind.  on this overcast day, we were just interested in getting back to brick bay before dark.  this picture was another of elysse' bettie page poses. 470 x 689 JPEG, 53K
we all got dressed up on new year's eve, to spend the evening in West End, which was the town on the west end of the island.  elysse outshone everybody, if not because she was the best-dressed and most beautiful, then because she had all sorts of glitter on her face and glow-in-the-dark stars and moons on her chest and arms.  again, as marvelous a contraption as the modern camera may be, it couldn't capture the moment accurately (you can't see the glitter, and the "auto-focus" didn't focus properly). 611 x 600 JPEG, 28K
elysse hides under the mainsail boom. 852 x 579 JPEG, 71K
and a close-up of the same.  (these are heavily doctored, because i wasn't careful enough to ensure that the sun was completely out of the frame... i'm very much an amateur photographer.) 434 x 600 JPEG, 35K
llewyn works her magick in the forward cabin... 305 x 600 JPEG, 19K

poolside

so, having never attempted to be a swimsuit model before, how does one go about posing for a photographer?  you start off being a little bored... 649 x 1200 JPEG, 78K
...and then you stretch a little... 478 x 600 JPEG, 42K
...and then you stretch some more... 408 x 600 JPEG, 37K
she's pretty skinny, but not skinny enough to hide behind that thing... 273 x 603 JPEG, 23K
after a cold swim, we spy a sunbathing beauty... 801 x 559 JPEG, 71K
...with a little bit of bothering from her little brother, peyton... 613 x 600 JPEG, 53K
...and sleeping beauty awakens from her poolside nap... 830 x 538 JPEG, 76K

las palmas

after shooting pictures on the beach at las palmas for about ten minutes, we discovered while attempting to reload the camera that it hadn't been loaded in the first place.  d'oh!  so all those great shots we thought we were getting we instead lost to a bit of stupidity.  oh well.  here's the winding-the-film shot, the first one taken after reloading.  (elysse was supposed to be on the left of this shot, but that part turned out completely white in the print.  it makes a good landscape shot, though...) 540 x 600 JPEG, 44K
hey, look over there!  *click*  (i actually wanted a shot of the butterflies and dragonflies in her hair...) 594 x 600 JPEG, 35K
i had a hard time deciding whether this picture looked better as a close-up or a long shot... the vistas are beautiful backdrops, but the foreground is captivating in its own right... so the next few images appear in both wide and narrow views. 800 x 541 JPEG, 65K
if her expression looks a little odd, it's because i snapped the shutter as she was saying the second word in the sentence, "i love you"... 690 x 600 JPEG, 55K
las_palmas_13.jpg 800 x 537 JPEG, 58K
las_palmas_13-crop.jpg 524 x 600 JPEG, 39K
las_palmas_14-wide.jpg 800 x 545 JPEG, 44K
las_palmas_14-crop.jpg 490 x 600 JPEG, 25K
a coral beach can be pretty rough on the knees, so she decided to lounge with the local flora for a while... 344 x 600 JPEG, 34K
...but that tree was actually covered with ants... d'oh! 792 x 600 JPEG, 64K
on your mark... get set... 635 x 600 JPEG, 51K
suprise! 535 x 600 JPEG, 48K
and again in black and white, to better cop the bettie page look... 535 x 600 JPEG, 48K
llewyn peeks from behind the foliage... 464 x 600 JPEG, 43K
who doesn't like to watch a bather shed her clothes? 408 x 600 JPEG, 42K
(i find the pose vaguely reminiscent of the birth of venus...) 800 x 519 JPEG, 55K
(again in a close-up.) 489 x 600 JPEG, 41K
is that a siren on her way to work? 884 x 572 JPEG, 63K
las_palmas_03.jpg 800 x 523 JPEG, 65K
las_palmas_03-crop.jpg 645 x 600 JPEG, 60K
and, last but not least, a parting shot... a beautifully bettie-like black-and-white of llewyn on the deck... you can find it in color here (45K), and in false color here (54K) (it was a dark print that didn't scan well) 546 x 597 JPEG, 49K

Sun Jan 9 02:38:05 EST 2000