Rings That Bind

"Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie."

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

 In Less than a month's time I will embark on a epic quest that I pray will last till the day I die.  Unlike Frodo in Tolkien's book I will make this decision to wear my ring willingly, and it will be by no means a burden. 

To some of my more inept readers:  it means i'm getting married.  The lucky lady is Krystal G. Moodie (check out her blog via the link).

We needed to take some shots of our rings for our wedding book/album/website.  The experiment proved challenging as polished tungsten carbide acts like a mirror.  Unlike the images you see in catalogs I wanted to leave the images of the rings untouched by the clone tool.  Comment on the images below.  

All of the above images were taken with one (1) light and a few reflectors to catch highlights.  The rings are Tungsten Carbide from Titanium Jewelry..

Next post:  Into the mist

The walk over to paradise...

The day started off as most mornings do close to a court house police sirens blaring loudly over the morning rush hour traffic.  The fact that it was comming from the direction of  the Government House in Nassau pushed me in the opposite direction.  Yes towards the earth shattering sound of cruise ship horns and the smell of sun block. 

Thats just the morning and not really part of the walk over to paradise island.  I was in Nassau to shoot a wedding and the idea was to walk over to the venue for the reception (the Colonial Hylton) for a recce.  Of course things got out of hand... you walk some where do a recce try to find a store to buy a cold Heineken completely miss the liquor store across the road and the next thing you know you're 1½ miles from where you've started on a bridge headed over to the largest hotel in the Caribbean (someone correct me if i'm wrong).

On the way though me and my good friend ( the doomed groom) took in some sites.

Cathedral On George Street

Shoppers on Bay Street

 Lawyers on the way to the Court House

Shoppers on Bay Street

Rum... Heineken... Heineken..Rum ...choices choices...

boats...boats... 

 

Complex by the Paradise Island Bridge

Tunnel On Paradise Island

Funny thing about that tunnel... its below the water level (to allow yatch to pass into the Atlantis Marina)... and I think it leaks.

 Well the rest of images speak for themselves.

And the whole reason for walking over there.... well its my reason and im sticking to it....

Alas if only there were bikini clad models in the background...