Trying a new technique with my Canon G9.  Bought a filter/lens adaptor for my Canon G9.  Attached a 58mm IR filterI had laying around.  Set the Color to Sepia for one shot, and B&W for the second shot, used the timer so that there would be no blur. Sepia IR    BW IR   Let me know what you guy's think.  This looks like a very promising way of producing IR shots.  ANd there is no postproduction software work needed.  It is all done in the camera.  Details for the shots.  F2.8, 0.6 sec. exposure, Iso was at 200.  Everything was set for automatic except the ISO.  I normally leave that at 200.  Now, I wonder if I can do something similar with my Nikon D300.  Thanks for listening to my long winded speech.

 

Tuesday night I whisked the wife and kids away to the Arizona Diamondbacks game in Phoenix Arizona.  

Daughter going up the escalator to see the field goingup

Chase Field thefield

The wife and three kids Wifeandthree

The three kids threekids

Here are some miscellaneous Southwest pictures for you to enjoy

Piece of wood in Monument Valley wood  

Where did Forrest Gump go??? mv

Big cacti cactus2

Big cactus cactus  

Joshua tree close-up Joshua Tree

Looking up a hill hill  

Anasazi ruins in Monument Valley ruins

Ok, I am consolidating all of my plane photos into one story for those of you that have emailed me and asked about the photos I took.  Here they are, all in one glorious place.  There are new Photos here also.

sent  Galaxy  B1  fatalber2  Bigf18  F16fire  noseup  4chinese  4upsidedown  4across  upside down  escort  bigguns  dualf16  bigf16     chinese  headon  mig  old and new  F16 takeoff  Jap Zero  Diamond Blue angels  F16 nose left  Ready to go  F16 night nose  F16 landing  Fat Albert  Thunderbird  Old plane  prop  F15  A10  F16 RR Tracks

I am not going to write a story this time, just some hot shots of cool planes, enjoy!!!

f18back
F16fire
 noseup
4chinese
4upsidedown
4across

upside down

It is almost Vetrans day!!!  It is time to give thanks to all of those in the military, as a tribute to them please enjoy these cool military planes of today and yesteryear!!!!
 These shots are from the Goodyear Air and Balloon Spectacular on October 20,21,22 2006.  I would love to read everyone's comments

Can you find the escort  plane in this shot?  I would hate to have these shooting at me bigguns.  Check out these dual F16's dualf16. Here is a closer shot of an F16 bigf16. Chinese anyone??? chinese. Blue Angels head on headon. Het Hey Hey, it's Fat Albert fatalbert.  Here is a cool old mig mig.  Old and new old and new.  F-16 takeoff F16 takeoff.  WWII Japanese Zero Jap Zero.  The show stoppers... Diamond Blue angels.

After seeing the posting for Monmouth Park I had to put up my NJ stuff.  My Mexican wife was not to thrilled about leaving AZ to visit NJ but I eventually managed to get a smile out of her Smiling Wife  What's a trip to NJ without visiting Whitecastles White Castle or the Windmill windmill And of course the beach in Long Branch DSC_5962   Eventually we headed into PA to see some family turnpike

I was in the middle of nowhere this weekend.  Where is the middle of nowhere you ask??  It is about 10 miles north of Kingman Arizona, on a back road heading to Lake Meade, the largest man made lake in the world.  See some of my other posts.  I will try to get some more shots this coming weekend.  Tech info, 12-24 Sigma HSM @ 18mm, Nikon D100 1/400 F11 ISO 200 Middle of Nowhere

Found this cute little girl on my back porch tonight, hey what do you expect, this is Arizona!!!Cutie  Look but don't touch  searching for food

Ok, you all have seen my pictures of the balanced rocks at this story, http://www.photographica.org/story/2006/4/23/21499/0520        

 Now, you can see how big these balanced rocks really are.  Rock 1  Rock 2  Rock 3  Here is a shot driving back towards Flagstaff AZ from the Navajo Reservation.  As you can see there is absolutely nothing out there. Shot through the window

I am in Nursing school right now.  Today we practiced Venipuncture.  Warning, Not for the sqeamish....21 Guage Venipuncture

I was tring out an infrared filter this weekend at Navajo Bridge, Lee's Ferry AZ

Harshly lit sunlit bridge, no filter

Same bridge, just using IR filter and Photoshop to desaturate and adjust some values

 Same Bridge just using IR filter, desaturating and auto levels in Photoshop

In Sept. 2004, I went rafting through the Grand Canyon.  After departing Lee's Ferry you travel under Navajo Bridge. Watch out for Eddy's a large one can trap a boat.  Getting Deeper in the Canyon.  Along the way we visited numerous waterfalls  Small waterfall 1  Small waterfall 2 . There was also abundant  wildlife in the Canyon.  You never know when a 17 ft tall rapid may sneak up on you and you WILL get totally Drenched

Well, I will be off to Lake Meade tomorrow with my daughter.  Those of you who are following the Basketball Playoffs, here is a shot of three of the  Phoenix Suns Dancers at America West Arena in Phoenix.  Here is a shot that I was playing around with one night.  I set my D100 to a bulb shutter and then I set my SB800 flash to strobe three times as my daughter changed positions. Ghost shot