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  • nascent

    Infrared image of an emerging sunflower. Continue reading

  • live long and prosper

    Black and white film goodness from the Indiana State Fair. Continue reading

  • family loss

    Today we lost a member of our family. Granted, he was “just a dog”, as I often tend to say, but the loss still hits hard. Grizzly went to sleep for the last time about 7:30 a.m this morning with… Continue reading

  • technology should be convenient

    One reason I dropped updating this blog for a while earlier this year was that I’m running this blog as a do-it-yourself endeavor, running WordPress on the backend, with a design that I modified and tweaked to give it the… Continue reading

  • The best view in town…

    For a number of reasons I’ve been in a bit of a creative funk for the last couple of months. One way that I’ve used to break out of that stale place was to dig out an old 35mm film… Continue reading

  • pay it forward…

    I’ve been meaning to write about the Radiant Vista for the last week or so, but now I don’t have any excuse not to. The Radiant Vista is a combination of community photography website, as well as an amazing resource… Continue reading

  • what a difference a lens makes Pt. 2

    In my previous post I talked a little about my new favorite lens for my main camera. This shot is a perfect example of why I wanted to get a good fast lens. On a purely technical level, if what… Continue reading

  • what a difference a lens makes

    I couldn’t have taken this photo last week. Not because the rugrat wouldn’t have posed (although that’s difficult enough to do on the best of days), but because up until last Friday the main lens on my Canon 300D was… Continue reading

  • custom white balance tutorial

    I’ve written up a tutorial on using LAB color space in Adobe Photoshop PS2 for adjusting a custom white balance (WB) with digital IR images. I hope you find it useful, it was a useful exercise for me to write… Continue reading