{"id":10583,"date":"2011-12-19T01:53:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T09:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=10583"},"modified":"2011-12-19T01:53:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T09:53:38","slug":"posing-posing-posing-on-high-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=10583","title":{"rendered":"Posing, posing, posing…on high seas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Vanity, thy name is photography. Let us begin by pointing out that we take hundreds \u2014 no, thousands \u2014 of pictures. We’re not even in all of them! But the idea of getting our pictures…oops, portraits…done after private consultation, unlimited shoot time, unlimited pictures (portraits) and a photo review is…<\/p>\n

Maybe we’re just not sophisticated enough for this.<\/p>\n

Evidently, Crystal Cruise<\/a> passengers are. Or at least Crystal thinks its passengers are. Why else would this upscale \u2014 is that the definitive word here? \u2014 cruise line feature master photographers on eleven sailings next year. Make that Master Photographers.<\/p>\n

They’re all award-winning shutterbugs, to be unsophisticated about it, and the final retouched photographs in “handcrafted, custom-bound, 16×12-inches, embossed-aluminum albums” will surely be a sight to behold. Maybe we just have a problem with seeing ourselves in a photo or portrait that’s 16 inches by 12.<\/p>\n

There’s unquestionably a cost involved, one that goes beyond sailing on either the Crystal Symphony<\/a> or Crystal Serenity<\/a>. Since we already gave away our first-born, as well as our second and third, we would probably be in trouble here.<\/p>\n

The “fun” starts January 18 on a sailing from Los Angeles<\/a> to Sydney<\/a> on the Serenity. The last sailing is October 31 from New York<\/a> to Los Angeles on the Symphony. In between are nine more cruises of 12 to 22 days…<\/p>\n

And it never occurred to us until right now: Just what do they have in mind by “unlimited shoot time?”<\/p>\n

DAILY DEAL:<\/span><\/strong>
\nCunard Queen Victoria<\/a>
\n8 nights
\nMarch 16, 2012
\nTransatlantic:\u00a0 New York<\/a> to Southampton<\/a>
\nInside $595
\nwww.cunard.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vanity, thy name is photography. Let us begin by pointing out that we take hundreds \u2014 no, thousands \u2014 of pictures. We’re not even in all of them! But the idea of getting our pictures…oops, portraits…done after private consultation, unlimited shoot time, unlimited pictures (portraits) and a photo review is… Maybe we’re just not sophisticated… Continue reading Posing, posing, posing…on high seas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,19,15],"tags":[72,86,227,794,795,150,312,796,268,148],"class_list":["post-10583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ships","tag-crystal-cruises","tag-crystal-serenity","tag-crystal-symphony","tag-cunard","tag-finding-bargains","tag-photography-on-board","tag-queen-victoria","tag-transatlantic-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}