Saint Martin Acrylic Print

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With an area of only 37 square miles, the island of St. Maarten/St. Martin is the smallest land mass in the world to be divided between two governments. Its dual owners are the Dutch and the French, who have shared the tiny and paradisical island more or less peacefully for almost 350 years. This understated absence of conflict testifies to one of the island's most precious and attractive characteristics--its unusual serenity.

Situated about 150 miles east of Puerto Rico, Dutch St. Maarten (the French spell it St. Martin) covers 16 square miles of the southern part of the island, an area marked by verdant, rolling hills that languidly rest above mile after mile of beach, salt pond, and lagoon. Although the region falls under the government of Netherlands Antilles and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, its diversity and the strong influence of West-Indian traditions make its culture anything but exclusively Dutch...

Willie Harper is a professional freelance photographer in Greenville County, South Carolina. He is a US Army veteran, a retired law enforcement officer, and a former CALEA Assessor (Commission on Accreditation for law enforcement agencies). His formal education includes Greenville Technical College, South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy, Southern Wesleyan University, and the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Intrigued after receiving a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera as a very young teenager, he fell in love with photography. At eighteen, he purchased his first professional camera in Korea while serving in the army. Photography was part-time until he retired. His real passion is fine art photography, primarily nature, and...