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Yesterday sucked. I can’t even remember a time I was so completely alone and depressed on my birthday. Seriously.

So my birthday present to myself arrived today (a day late) and I had to run out in the yard and try it out. Henry was being a bitch about posing, but I finally got him to sit still for a second. You can see the disgust in his face. Basically, I love it… not my baby boy being disgusted, but the camera. I found this optics place out of the northeast that has a clean room operation and specialized in converting digital SLR’s into infrared-only bodies by surgically removing the IR cutback filter before the sensor and replacing it with a filter attenuating visible light, but letting IR through (somewhere around 715 nanometers or so). The result is the ability to shoot infrared handheld without the excruciating long exposures of traditional non-modified SLR bodies sporting a Hoya R72 or equivalent.

In other photo news, I was watering my plants this afternoon and found a gianormous spider in the eve at the corner of the house. I haven’t shot macro in a while and I’m definitely rusty.

nightmares and dreamscapes

Also, when I was in L.A. this weekend, I shot a dark alleyway off the side of Sean’s building to experiment with HDR processing. I’m on the fence. The more I look at it, the more I don’t like it. It has its place, but I prefer using it sparingly in natural shots rather than industrial (see 22P image for comparison in line).

Mmmmkay. I also (very, very quickly) pulled the walk-about-town shots off the CF card and have posted those below. Not typical for me, but it was just the mood I happened to be in that morning.

I have some practicing to do before I feel decent behind the camera again. I’ve been so tired recently… deeply. I can’t catch up. Anyhoo, I didn’t have anything to say. I just wanted to post that crap and go sit on the couch. Cheerio.