A little brain teaser for all of you observant blog readers… from this photo, can you tell which city I’m visiting?
As I’m traveling for work for a week of face-to-face (F2F) meetings, I thought I’d share an image from Monday morning’s stroll to the office. I noticed something that was new to me, as it’s been a while I went to our corporate headquarters.
Here’s what I came across…
This rather sizable acorn was standing proud as a reminder of the city’s nickname. So for fun, I will leave it up to all of you to guess which city I am in! The winner gets bragging rights!
Have a wonderful day!
I’m excited to share this image from my IR-modified camera; it’s great to see how it affects B&W images!
As I’m wrapping up a busy weekend, balancing preparing for a work trip, my new web-site and getting images ready for this week’s posts, I’m happy to have this next image for this week’s post. It’s another shot from just over a week ago, and was taken with my 720nm modified camera.
Let’s take a look at what’s ready…
I find that when shooting in a different part of the light spectrum, and processing for it, there is opportunity for almost super-real black and white. This one came out for that, as sky and clouds were captured just different enough to get a rather enjoyable end result by going monochrome.
Shot with my converted Canon EOS 5D Mk II with a 720nm filtered sensor.
On this rainy Sunday morning, a past autumn reflection from East Haddam; this image captures the early autumn colors in the trees, enhanced by their reflection in a stream.
As the rain is coming down steadily on this Sunday morning, I thought that a quiet autumn reflection from a couple of years ago might be in order.
Here’s that thought…
This image came about from a bit of noodling and looking for something different, as we were photographing in East Haddam. With some early autumnal color showing in the trees, the reflection in the stream created a bit more depth of those colors.
Enjoy your moment of serenity!
We visit Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah during November; despite the chilly weather, the stunning vistas are worth it!
That’s quite the catchy title for a blog post, as we’re visiting one of the National Parks in the United States. For this post, I’m using an image from last year’s visit to Bryce Canyon in Utah. November in Bryce Canyon is definitely cold, and the altitude added to the windchill that we experienced. Nevertheless, it was well worth facing the conditions, as the vistas are simply stunning!
Here’s one of those views…
Shooting this with the wonderful long view, as well as the canyon seemingly inviting us in, I still enjoy this image. Nature is filled with wonders and Bryce Canyon is definitely happy to provide us with a sense of those wonders!
Looking forward to hearing about all of your favorite landscapes!
This week’s image highlights the New Salem Academy Museum, established in 1795.
It’s great to have a sense of revival in this week’s posts, as I feel energized by it. In that vein, I’ll change my self-imposed constraints a little for the iPhone Friday series. From this post on, I will be posting only images that were recorded within the past week. This has the added benefit of reminding me to get out of the house and look around a bit more for something interesting. Simply because, all work and no play dull my senses!
Here’s a take from this past week…
New Salem Academy was brought into existence on February 25, 1795, when Massachusetts governor Samuel Adams signed the legislation that created the academy. The Trustees of New Salem Academy have continuously managed the affairs of the Academy since then, which today focuses on the provision of scholarship opportunities for residents of New Salem and descendants of Academy attendees and staff.
Note that the museum is open by appointment only, so please reach out to plan your visit!
We’re going back to 2004, and a capture of Canada geese on the Quinapoxet River. It’s an image that I still cherish, even after 2 decades!
As I’m having fun putting my web-site together, I’m building portfolio pages that feature particular groupings of some of the images that I have captured over the years. Even though these are just my digital photography, some of them go back quite a while! So for this week’s throwback, I’m going to an image from 2004.
Here are three Canada geese afloating…
After all this time, I still appreciate this image for a whole bunch of reasons. It took a bit of work to get this capture, as I shot 34 or so images to get one where the geese give off a sense of direction. I still enjoy the coloring of the late September leaves and their reflection in the rather tranquil river. And, yes, despite being an early digital camera, the Canon EOS 10D, which I still have, performed admirably!
I hope you enjoy this image and look forward to hearing about your early forays into digital photography!
This week we highlight the laundromat offering a unique perspective through their windows
Here’s another one in the series, as it’s been a lot of fun thus far. In this week’s installment, I’m taking a slightly different approach to the theme of Window.
Here’s a set of windows that provide a different view…
Coin operated laundromats are a staple of just about every American town. They are useful for those high-capacity machines that most of us will not have in our house or for apartment dwellers, who don’t have laundry hookups. For a bit of meditation, one can look through the windows and follow the progress of the laundry tumbling in front of our eyes!
This is my mid-week contribution to the Monday Window thread, a creation of Ludwig Keck. To read more about Ludwig, check this page.
This week we highlight a photo from Jokulsarlon Lagoon taken during a rainy August 2022 visit.
In the most recent Travel Tuesday post, we visited the wonderful city of Brno. As I was working on (finally) putting together my photography web-site, I started with a test gallery page for Iceland. Thus far I’ve put 13 of my images from the various trips to this great country with many more to come!
That gave me the idea to post this one…
This is from an August 2022 trip, and as you can probably tell, it was raining pretty steadily during our visit to Jokulsarlon. Given the tricky conditions (and the amount of people at the site, I decided to also take a couple of iPhone shots. This is one of those photos, which I kind of like. There are definite coloration artifacts, which are a little too early for blue hour (especially in August).
Just as a heads up, if you visit the web-site, it’s still doing some unpredictable things, plus there are some pages from the demo site that I’m using as a starting point. Plus many links will become active when I add many more galleries, as well as some shop pages. Lots to come!
A return after a bit of a hiatus and a visit to a nearby historical Meetinghouse. Explorations in light and color feature.
Greetings and welcome to the revival blog post! I’ll post about what’s been keeping me rather busy in a separate post, so as not to bore those of you who’d rather see something new in Infrared fun!
As I’m enjoying a long weekend and the weather has been gorgeous, I opted for some exploration. In particular, there’s a well-hidden, old bridge that I was looking for and found. As this bridge is in an area where I captured a Meetinghouse (see post), I took a slight detour to visit that location as well.
Here’s a first look at the Meetinghouse in natural light…
This was captured with my Fuji GFX 100s II medium format camera, and I treated it with an Adobe Camera Raw filter to bring an early sense of autumn into the image.
I also photographed the Meetinghouse in a rather different color…
A rather different capture and processing, as I took this photo with my 720nm converted Canon EOS 5D MkII, and then gave it a quick channel swap and some adjustments to highlight pink trees!
The same image with a rather different treatment…
For this treatment, I went to a yellowish tone for the trees, which also allowed me to create a slightly more sinister feel to the overall image. I’ll admit that I enjoy this approach a bit!
A couple of quick news items. First of all, I have the privilege of having an invitation to present to the Assabet Valley Camera Club next May on the topic of Infrared photography. This will be a lot of fun, and a great impetus for me to add to my portfolio over the next months, as I prepare the detailed presentation. Secondly, I’m finally working on my new web-site, as I feel I have enough images processed over this past year to present a start of a portfolio. More announcements soon!
In this week’s Wednesday Window installment, we encounter a crew of fearless window cleaners in Brno, Czechia.
After last week’s Wednesday Window, we’re staying in Europe going a bit north from Italy to the Czech Republic. This installment is one of those opportune moments as a photographer, when we get to see something that’s not happening every day in our lives.
Let’s take a look at this one…
During a work trip to Brno, Czechia, I was going for a walk on the day before meetings started and came upon this crew of window cleaners. I admire both their skill and fearless approach, as this is not for the faint of heart!
This is my mid-week contribution to the Monday Window thread, a creation of Ludwig Keck. To read more about Ludwig, check this page