The older I get, the more I appreciate warm weather. It seems that in the end I am a tropical creature. So I consider myself incredibly lucky that we are able to travel to the Caribbean every year. This time we spent almost two weeks on Bonaire. The colours and the light are amazing, and to honour that I have organised this post to see the light changing during the day.

The first couple of days I make good use of my jetlag by getting up before sunlight, and enjoy the quiet resort and deserted beach. Although this morning I wasn’t entirely on my own.

My favourite activity for the day is a visit to the Washington Slagbaai National Park. It is weird that I can appreciate the dry, rocky landscape, as it is so different from my favourite Dutch woods, but I do. The land is wide and impressive, the ocean shows how powerful it can be beating the coast, but it’s also incredibly pretty. And during the day the colours get more saturated, although some heavy clouds are not unusual either.

Ok, the next few images are not in colour, but I always love the frames I get from my little light panorama point and shoot camera. I bought the Minolota Riva Panorama for only 20 euros, given how much fun it is to shoot it is an absolute bargain.

In the evening pastel changes into deep orange before the sun finally disappears again. And see how the two digital images made its way into this primarily film post? I still enjoy shooting digital as well. Sometimes in these fast changing conditions it makes life just a little bit easier…

All film was developed in Tetenal and scanned on a Reflecta RPS 10M scanner by me.

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