2025 NE Cruise - St John Mural

This is likely one of the larger murals you'll find anywhere.  Fantastic artistry and color...

2025 NE Cruise - St John, Focus-Shifted Perspective of Stone Church

 ...and zooming in enables a focus shift of same:

2025 NE Cruise - St John, Stone Church Exteriors

These last two posts of churches in St John are of one we discovered at the end of a long street on the edge of downtown.  It's called the "Stone Church", which is of the Anglican Church of Canada.  While this is a good, straight-on shot of the building, think taking a picture of the church through these trees adds interest.  As a bonus we have a light post in the foreground:

2025 NE Cruise - St John, Focus-Shifted Model Ship in Library

Also in this library was a large model sailing vessel, which was used to create a focus shift between the wheel and "ropes" in the foreground:

2025 NE Cruise - St John, Library Book Display

We were standing on the second floor across a wide expanse in the lobby, so had to zoom in to 250mm for this shot.  The goal was to get close enough to the books to read their titles.

2025 NE Cruise - St John, Library Balloon Girl

As it turns out this library was quite the place, with more than one photo op for the Bigger Cahoona.  The girl was hanging from a wire, which was quickly and handily removed by the awesome and improved Remove Tool in Photoshop.

2025 NE Cruise - St John, Marching Protestors

It became necessary to stop by the restroom before we got to the ship, and a kind person on the street told us that the library was the best place to go.  That's it across the street here, but we couldn't cross right away because of this march taking place.  Don't know if they were protesting or celebrating or what, as the flags and signage didn't specify.  So we waited a few minutes for them to get past, then made our way to relief.

2025 NE Cruise - St John, Old Building Facade

A building we encountered along the way back to the port.

2025 NE Cruise - St John, Apartment Building Through Trees

This was the view upon exiting the church.  Looking at the apartment building through these trees reminded me of this post and this post, both published in 2020.

2025 NE Cruise - St John, Ornate Church Lectern

Probably the most elaborate and ornate lectern ever made...even the bird gets a sash!  Wonder who gets to stand here and speak...