Fort San Cristóbal

Phil U.

At the entrance to San Juan Bay. Look here for more info: http://www.nps.gov/saju/

Very cool place.

Photographed in late afternoon light rushing around because we only had 15 minutes before closing time. I got seperated from my wife and got locked in. Had to have one of the park rangers let me out - all the while being berated by both the ranger and my wife. :toni It was worth it though.

erich6

Excellent shots Phil. It's a beautiful area. Did you get to go to El Morro?

Hopefully your wife got over her frustration after a nice stroll through "Old San Juan" and a few shops later....

Erich

Phil U.

erich6 wrote:

Excellent shots Phil. It's a beautiful area. Did you get to go to El Morro?

Hopefully your wife got over her frustration after a nice stroll through "Old San Juan" and a few shops later....

Erich

Thanks! No, didn't get to El Morro. You're right - she was fine shortly after that. We both enjoyed the Old San Juan area - she for the shops and me for the "old feel".

Phil U.

Some more

52Caddy

Great shots, I love Puerto Rico! We were there almost 2 years ago and had a great time. We were in San Juan and Ponce for a couple weeks, had to work for the first week while the wife enjoyed the beaches!

ian408

Been a while since I was in San Juan and these photos are a very nice
reminder.

Nice work.

ian

zed

Great job. Really nice lighting and contrast.

gubbs

Beautiful place Phil! The last shot does it for me, but I think maybe I'd crop it so that the diaganol just above the arch was meeting the left edge of the picture.

Excellent stuff!

david_h

Very nice. I used to work in PR so they bring back lots of memories.
We are planning on going back next year for a few days, haven't been to the island for about five years now.

Phil U.

Ah, looks like these brought back some memories for a few - that's good news.

The light was fantastic - I couldn't have asked for any better (except maybe more time but I still would have to have rushed around so as not to waste the light I suppose).

A note of interest on that last shot - that was actually a dark room under the fortress (I believe under the walls but not sure because we had already gone down in a couple tunnels at that point). I lit it up with a bounced flash. Had to work it in post to get that nice texture/color to pop out.

Thanks for the comments everyone!

Dixie

Great shots.

Regretfully, they didn't bring back memories. They did add another location to my list of must see places to visit before I die.

Phil U.

Dixie wrote:

Great shots.

Regretfully, they didn't bring back memories. They did add another location to my list of must see places to visit before I die.

Thanks Dixie!