This time of year seems as good as any to begin an affair with a tree. As with most burgeoning affairs, you can expect to see a lot more of this beauty!
Monday, December 24, 2012
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Hypochilus bonneti - Pair
Found at the junction of a secondary cave passage and a surface vent in total darkness with good air flow. Female (left) is sitting in her web. Male (right) photographed while moving. The abdomen of each specimen is approximately 8mm.
Maybe spiders aren't the christmas present you hope for, but Santa knows me pretty well.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Dancing Orbs of Light
These lights were part of a commercial christmas display but are in their own right part of a large art installation on the grounds. They are constructed with filaments of fiber optics threaded through rods and into ploy-carbonate globes. The lighting was actively changing colour and intensity, so the act of photographing them was similar to playing a game with a spastic child! Great Fun!
Monday, December 17, 2012
How do you Hoodoo?
...and then I found out that I live near a large collection of hoodoos! Holy crap... hoodoos!
The following day the road closed due to adverse conditions and may not open until spring-ish. Grrr....
Saturday, December 15, 2012
FCIR Study-5
I did a kind of "lollipop" hike around this formation photographing as I went. When I think of infrared photos, I see inky black skies, white glowy foliage. Out here in the desert, we have lots of sky, but not so much foliage. Capturing the striations in this hill was a complete surprise, to me anyway. Normally the skies aren't so cluttered with contrails, and normally I don't shoot when they are, but here again, just going out for an experiment was a lucky and fortuitous endeavor.
Happy Friday!
Christmas Star Trails
A different kind of star trail today. This season is full of low hanging fruit that's ripe for the picking. Not bad for a handheld spur of the moment JPG with the little point & shoot.
Cheers!
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Cache Cabin
The interior of this shelter is incredibly small. Can't imagine what the original purpose might have been. A great find nonetheless!
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
FCIR Study-3
Still in the backyard doing false colour infrared studies. Living on the edge of the desert watching the approach of winter probably wasn't the best time to catch the IR bug, but I'll be ready come spring!
Doing this slow, technical, deliberate, work has me thinking and looking more than shooting... What a joyful side-effect!
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