Every cruise Hotel Director Marco van Belleghem holds a presentation on photography onboard the ship called “The World Through a Camera Lens.” The presentation is held in the Queen’s Lounge and it’s a very popular activity. During the presentation Marco explains about the technical aspects of photography as well as shares his own images. An… read more of “Photography…”
Tag: Marco’s Moments
Nieuw Amsterdam is currently in drydock in Freeport, Bahamas. This is the first drydock for the Nieuw Amsterdam since she came out. So far we are making very good progress with the works. We will come out as a sparkly new ship again. Last night I went out with my camera to take some gorgeous… read more of “Marco’s…”
During our visit to Mykonos, Greece I had an opportunity to take some great images. I took some of the famous windmills, some of the sunset and one of our previous family, the still beautiful Windstar.
A glorious sunny day in Nafplion, Greece. Shore-side the local community had set up a small market with local products and information on the area for our guests and in the afternoon there was a folkloric show. I decided to go up to Palamidi Castle, from where you have spectacular views over the old part… read more of “Marco’s…”
Friday we were in Santa Margherita, Ligure, Italy. In the afternoon I took the ferry over to Portofino as I knew from previous visits that there are some great images to be taken there. It was a beautiful sunny day. First we walked up to the church from where you have a beautiful view and… read more of “Marco’s…”
I got up this morning at 6:00 a.m. I got ready and when I looked out of the window I saw this amazing kaleidoscope of strong colors. The sun was rising as we approached Palermo, Sicily, so I decided to take my tripod and camera onto the balcony and take some shots of this colorful… read more of “Marco’s Moments:…”
After seven days at sea, we finally saw land again. I woke up early to see our arrival into Madeira, which was very beautiful with all the twinkling lights on the mountains. In the afternoon my wife, our son, Glenn and I decided to explore and we took the cable car up the mountain to… read more of “Marco’s…”
On February 28, our son Tiziano celebrated his fifth birthday. We organized a special get-together for Tiziano. He is a huge Cars 2 fan, so he wanted that theme for his party. We had the movie playing and our Assistant Pastry Bienvenido Jr. Magalona Tigao made a beautiful cake in the shape of Finn McMissile,… read more of “Happy 5th Birthday…”