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Monday 13 noveMber 2017
The Natural Pool in April and May

Aruban born and bred Steve Francees has a passion
for photography. Being a local photographer he
knows the hidden gems of this island and captures
them in an amazing way. As a Family and Landscape
photographer Steve is ready to create your next
‘vacation memories’, morning and/or sunset shots.
T: (297) 738-0777, M: stevefrancees@hotmail.com,
www.instagram.com/stevefrancees and www.
stevefrancees.com

This week Steve also opened his photo collage
exhibition ‘Coast 2 Coast’. You are most welcome to
step by at Maggy’s Beauty Emporium in the #59art
room in the Main Street in downtown Oranjestad. The If you have been to the natural pool in the months of April and May you may have noticed
entrance if free and the exhibition opens from 9.30 that there were big waves smashing into the rocks and producing a snow-white foam that
am to 6.30 pm. Enjoy the art!q covers the entire pool. It is like seeing a white pool in front of you. The waves can be danger-
ous if you climb on the northern rocks and get hit by one. So be careful in those months. This
phenomenon is due to the heavy windy season that also produces big waves all over the
northern coastline.
The pink color in sunset. The Frenchman’s Pass

After taking so many pictures for the last 25 years I can al-
most predict what the sunset will look like. For a part as you
can predict the kinds of colors that the sunset will have and
how hot the day will be. My grandfather was a fisherman
and he told me the first indicators how hot the day will be by
observing the sunrise. Out of experience I can say that the
pink color in our sunset will occur when it rains during midday
and that happens mostly in the months of April, September- Rooi Frances, as we locals call it, is very nice but don’t go at night! Some claimed to hear
November. It is followed by heavy sunlight after. The effect voices and so but I have never seen nor heard anything. Many Indians were killed here during
of the rain and heavy sunlight will produce more reflection an island’s invasion by French pirates in the early 17th century. This explains the name French-
at sunset and that causes a really pinkish sunset. Two weeks man’s Pass. The shot I took here was at sunset and I was standing in the muddy swamp all by
ago on a Sunday we had a pinkish sunset due to the rain at myself. I stayed there till dark that Saturday night.
midday and it was amazingly stunning.