Panorama Pictures Taken on Serenade of the Seas Alaska Cruise

[Paulmj]

We just returned from the August 8th sailing of the Serenade of the Seas to Alaska.

 

I've posted up a series of panoramic pictures taken on this cruise at:

 

http://www.pbase.com/paulmj/serenade_alaska

 

Prior to the cruise, we spent a few days in the Banff & Lake Louise area of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta. We took a Hummer tour of the nearby mountians.

 

Panoramic Pictures from the Canadian Rockies can be found at:

 

http://www.pbase.com/paulmj/canadian_rockies

 

Enjoy.

[winkelmann]

Thanks for sharing your photos. That's the best reason yet for me to save up for an Alaska cruise! Just beautiful!

[DisneyBlonde]

Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing. :o

[mammallama]

Gorgeous photos! Thanks for sharing. What type of camera did you use?

[Sea Island Lady]

Beautiful! ;)

[BabySam99]

Magnificent!

[royaloakie]

Thank you so much for the beautiful pictures. We are taking the same cruise next summer and cannot believe how beautiful your pictures are!! We now have a year to wait. Judy

[dolfan1949]

Thanks for the gorgeous pictures...Alaska is on our to do list in the next couple of years;)

[cmason]

Paulmj, did you make the panoramics using software, of did you use a panoramic camera or APS camera?

[baseballmom]

Hi Paulmj -- Welcome home and thank you for sharing your beautiful photos! I'll be on Serenade next June and I can't wait to see those same sights up close!

 

Laurie

[KruzBluz]

Absolutely Stunning!

 

We're on the 9/12 cruise. Hope it's half as beautiful as you photos. Thanks!

[Folgy]

I have almost the same pictures LOL

 

Talk about coincidence . We have some of Grizzlies Bears and them eating Salmon and pics of Eagles swooping Salmon from the water.

 

I am trying to post them at a site like you have just done(Ican't figure how to even put one on the boards here ..let alone a web site like you have done)

 

Where were you on the ship? I sailed with you . No M&M for us that cruise.

[Paulmj]

Cujosmom, I also posted up two pictures which will illustrate what the aft cabin balcony looks like. You can find it at the very end of the PBase gallery.

[Paulmj]

Folgy, we were in cabin #7176, an aft cabin.

[Folgy]

Did you get pics of the Killer Whales and Hump Backs ? I counted hundreds.

[Paulmj]

Cmason, I used three digital cameras throughout this cruise:

 

Panasonic DMC-FZ10, 4 MP with 12X optical telephoto stabilized Leica lens.

Pentax Optio 555, 5 MP with 5X optical telephoto.

Pentax S4i, 4 MP, pocket camera.

 

All the panoramic images were taken handheld, overlapped manually, and stitched together using software called Panorama Factory. I've used it for years and it is not difficult at all to get good results.

 

I also do some touch-up of lighting and coloration using Adobe Photoshop.

 

Incidentally, I did all this organizing and editing on sea days and on the airplane coming home. I took something approaching 1000 pictures. It's what I like to do.

[Paulmj]

Folgy, we went on the Juneau whale watching cruise. It must have been a bad day. We saw seals laying on a beach, but we could have seen more laying on the docks at Pier 39 in San Francisco.

 

We sailed along and everyone ran to one side of the boat when they announced a whale, and by the time they got there, nothing could be seen. Then they yelled to go to the other side, and nothing was there.

 

Oh, we saw some activity that "could" have been a whale or two, but I concluded it would have been more rewarding an a lot less expensive to go visit whales at Sea World in San Diego.

 

It certainly wasn't very exciting, at least to me.

[Folgy]

I saw them from our suite balcony . I also saw them while partying in the Concierge Club.

 

I had so many to see

[AllyKat]

Thank you for sharing the breathtakingly gorgeous pictures! I really enjoyed them. :)

[rangerdog]

WOW!! Thanks for sharing the awesome pictures. Makes me wish I was there right now!!

[oldgram1]

Wow, did I ever enjoy looking at your pictures. We are hoping to go in a year or two....I need to show these to dh to get him enthused.

 

The pictures you took were really well done - worth your efforts.

 

Gail

[Monte65]

Thank you for the wonderful pictures. When my wife sees your pictures, I know where we will be cruising next summer.

[Sophie]

Alaska looks just beautiful! I hope to cruise there someday!