Foggy Morning on Deep Creek Road

Well summer is here finally and the heat has driven me to desperate measures...getting up early to photograph at sunrise. I'm not a morning person! Anyway, this past Saturday was beautiful with really heavy fog. I was a little late getting out, but still got some photos of the fog out on Deep Creek Road and then headed to Pillsbury Crossing. My photos can be viewed here.

I also had my IR modified camera with me and shot several photos in IR. I've posted these as well, they can be viewed here. Most of these I've converted to black and white, but I've also left a few with the slight red tint they have coming straight out of the camera. A few I've also exchanged the red and blue channels of the images which lets you put a blue sky back in the photo. I really love this effect.

Enjoy

First light with new IR camera

I recently sent off a Digital Rebel to Lifepixel.com to be modified for infrared (IR) only photography and I've been anxiously awaiting its return....it finally arrived this past Friday! I took it out in the backyard for my first test shots with it. You can view them here.

I'm hooked!! I love the look of IR photos. If you are curious, you can learn more about IR photography at the Lifepixel website or at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_photography. IR photography is not the same thing as thermal imaging, which many people confuse it with. IR photography is simply recording IR light as opposed to visible light, not heat as is done with thermal imaging. A great subject for IR photography is any green plant. The chlorophyll in plants strongly reflects IR light. Kansas is an IR shooters paradise in the spring and summer, we have lots of green and lots of sunshine!

Peace.

Konza Prairie tour

This past weekend I was on a tour of Konza Prairie with the other members of the Flint Hills Photography Club. It was an excellent, excellent tour. Our 'guides' were extremely friendly and knowledgeable and very patient with us while we took pictures. The Konza Prairie is roughly 8000 acres in size and is an active research site operated by Kansas State University. Hiking trails are open to the public and tours can be arranged for groups. I worked on the Konza for awhile when I was an undergraduate and it was really great to be able to go back on this tour.

Some of my photos from the trip are online here.

Enjoy!

Alcove Springs...again

Well with all the recent rain we have had, I figured that the waterfalls at Alcove Springs might be pretty to photograph this summer. So my Dad and I head out there July 5th....only to find the falls completely dry, not even a drop of water going over the drop off. Oh well, guess I will try again this winter during some snow melt. We did find a nice little open area of prairie above the falls that had some really nice wildflowers in it to photograph and also some cooperative cattle on the drive back into Waterville. A few of the photos can be viewed here.

Enjoy.

Backyard photo ops

You never know where you will find something to photograph. These photos were all taken in my back yard.

Enjoy!

Fostering Kittens

My wife and I have been working with the Riley County Humane Society and fostering a stray and her 5 kittens so naturally I've been out taking pictures of them (way too many pictures of them!). You can view some of the photos here.

Anybody need a cat?

Washington County Wheat fields

I was recently up in Washington County shooting some wheat fields before they were harvested. Some of the photos from the trip can be found here.

In the last photo of this group you note that the sky is pastel colored. This is the "belt of Venus", which is a pinkish glow in the sky near sunset or sunrise.

Enjoy!