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Last March we were driving around Virginia near the Dulles Airport. The far outreaches of the airport. Near the farms and woods. And a wild turkey flew in front of the car out of nowhere. A wild turkey! What a big giant bird. Or at least that’s what we thought at the time.

A few miles down the road we come across a cattle farm. No big deal and nothing strange. Right? Wrong. There was an ostrich and an emu in with the cows in the pasture. Could you imagine what a cowstrich would look like?

So we got out of the car and took pictures. The birds were pretty close to the fence and the cows were a little further into the pasture. Once we got several pictures of the birds they started walking away. So we tried to call them back. Instead the cows started running towards us. Thank goodness that there was a fence between us and the cows. And as we walked down the fence, the cows followed us. We must have smelled like hay or grass or whatever cows eat.

Anyway, I haven’t worked on those pictures yet. But I should be doing that soon. So keep an eye out for your local cowstrich.

October 8th, 2009 | Category: New Images, Newsletter | Leave a comment

I have started putting my images up on Zazzle. I have created magnets, posters, cards and postage stamps out of my images. They are all reasonably priced. If you have a picture that you like and it’s not on my Zazzle site, just email me and I can put it up there.

I will be putting some new images up on the websites soon, so make sure to keep looking.

June 9th, 2009 | Tags: Exhibits/Shows, gallery, gallery site, project | Category: Newsletter, Websites and Links | Leave a comment

Year End Recap
Well, this has been a long year. A lot of personal stuff happened and so did a lot of photography. I had a show at the National Cathedral in May. I have been working on new images all year. I have also updated my equipment — a new Nikon D80, a new computer, a new printer, and converting my old camera to Enhanced Infrared. And I’m already setup for a show in February — check it out at the VA Wine Showcase.

Enhanced Color Infrared
I got my camera back from Life Pixel. I immediately took it out on a morning hike on the W&OD trail in Reston.

I ordered the camera to be converted to what Life Pixel calls Enhanced Color Infrared. What’s interesting is that I can take pictures in the standard infrared or enhanced infrared. Standard infrared gives me an image that turns out white/black/red — where the heat/green comes out white and the cold is black and everything else is red. Enhanced infrared… well, I’m still trying to figure it out. Life Pixel defines it as

Enhanced Color IR (equivalent to 665nm) – Allows more color to pass and is especially suited for color IR work with great saturation and color range. BW also looks quite good although with a bit less contrast without adjustments.

I’m posting some of the images without editing them on my gallery page. Let me know what you think. I am very excited with the new images and can’t wait for everyone’s feedback.

What’s In Store for Next Year
I hope to do more shows, enter into more contests and maybe find a gallery that will show my images. Let’s keep our fingers crossed and I’ll let you know what happens.

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December 30th, 2008 | Tags: enhanced infrared, Infrared | Category: Infrared, New Images, Newsletter | Leave a comment

In case you are looking for our old blogs, you can go to this link and find the information. We will be working on moving this data to our new blog some time soon.

September 26th, 2008 | Category: Newsletter | Leave a comment