Princess is having a photo contest for passengers, and that means the pressure is on in our household. On her, not me. Because my little shutterbug has 18,772 photos on her laptop (as of late yesterday), a huge percentage of them from cruises, and I just know somewhere in there is a winner.
When she finds it (or them), she’ll make a submission to Princess, via the website or Facebook or the guy who delivers snail mail. It makes no difference to me which method of transmission she uses, and obviously it makes no difference to Princess either.
The prize?
The winners will have their photos — yes, they must be photos taken while cruising — mounted on the hallways of the Royal Princess, the company’s new ship that will be launched in June 2013. There will be 1,000 of them dressed up and hung, presumably in perpetuity, presumably with credits for the photographers.
There’s one grand prize, a free cruise for two including air fare.
Among my little shutterbug’s photos, there are owls and pussycats. Ships and pilot boats. Cities and villages. Entertainers and chefs. Glaciers and grasslands. She even took a picture of a mushroom, which would be slightly more palatable if I even liked them.
Actually, I’m wrong. It was more than one mushroom, growing in all its glory near some cruise port in Alaska. She likes pictures of mushrooms, I like pictures of open water. In fact, the last time we crossed the Atlantic on a cruise ship, I took photos of the ocean six days in a row from our balcony.
She said she knows I was the photographer, and that I shouldn’t enter them in the contest.
Like all my photos, they’re blurry. But hey, blurry water beats mushrooms.
Doesn’t it?
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