2025 NE Cruise - St John, Wall with Windows for Card

Had to extend the wall a little to fit the promotional card dimensions of 3.5 x 2, then borrowed the text and layer styles from another card.  Am fairly please with the result...

2025 NE Cruise - St John, Wall with Windows

Chenjean was mercifully patient whenever I wanted to stop for a pic, and is getting used to me stopping at the least expected times.  This I did mid-walk while in town on the way back to the ship.  Immediately I thought of using this image in a promotional card, which will be posted tomorrow.  Meanwhile, how could I not play with the colors?

2025 NE Cruise - St John, White Flowers and Garden Patch

This one was gleaned from the same little patch next to the sidewalk.  Says something about a culture that takes the time to cultivate such beauty on public property...

Zoomed-out view of same below:

2025 NE Cruise - St John, Yellow Flower

I do try to stay away from the boring, mundane, cliché-ish photos - which I hereby dub "Old Fogey Pics" - but sometimes flowers and landscapes are just too pretty, if not interesting, to pass up.  Such as this one, which was part of the landscaping next to a sidewalk in town.

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.