Here's some more infrared images. Click on the links to see the larger ones:

This is from Burnaby Mountain near my apartment. It is the view of the north mountains just after sunset.

Burnaby north.

This is the view south. It's difficult to see it here, but you can actually see all the way to Vancouver Island from up here. On a clear morning it looks incredible.

Here's the view facing west towards Vancouver city. This is a normal color image, not infrared:

And a wide angle of the garden bed with a flag in it:

Today I took the camera out to the front of the apartment building and shot some photos of myself with the camera on a tripod. I used infrared again; this time one in real color infrared and the other in black and white infrared. Here are those two images:

Me in infrared black and white.

Another of me in black and white infrared.

Me in infrared color.

Infrared sure does some strange things. It makes my skin have kind of a glow to it and I look very white like stone. It makes my dark sunglasses transparent. I'm eager to shoot photos of other people to see what it does to them as well. I'll keep you posted.

Ok, I gotta go do my exercises now.

See ya later!

Ok, it looks like the image host is working again. All the photos should work now.

Sorry, but it looks like the image host where my photos are stored is off line right now. If you can't open my pictures, please try again later.

Wow, where have I been? I've had three photo assignments in the past 48 hours. It's been fun but rather crazy though. In the past 24 hours I've shot photos of everything from pregant women to fruits and vegetables to a jazz and blues band. I've been shooting a lot with my digital camera lately, but during the blues band shoot the rechargeable battery kicked the bucket. Fortuantely I brought my film camera with me and I finished the shoot with that.

I bought a new toy yesterday too; an infrared lens filter. I've been searching for this particular filter for about 2 years now. I finally found one yesterday and I've already take a bunch of photos with it. It's very very cool! Scientifically speaking, the filter alows us to see light in the infrared spectrum (600 Nanometers and up) which the human eye canot see. The filter is completely opaque and no visible light will pass through it; only infrared radiation. The resulting photos are surreal and amazing to look at. Trees, plants and grass are nearly pure white, the sky is black and the clouds are very intenst and defined. Atomaspheric haze is eliminated completely resulting in virtually unlimited depth of field. I love it!!!

I've uploaded a few photos I've taken already with it. They are larger image file sizes than what I usually post here, so you can click on the following links to view them. That will prevent the page from loading rather slowly for those of you with dial-up connections. Here's the links:

English Bay 1

English Bay 2

English Bay 3

English Bay 4

There's even a color infrared image of me here:
Me in Infrared

Today I feel like I haven't accomplished much. There must be about 20 things I should/could be doing, but right now I can't think of any.

Screw it. I'm going to the mall. Maybe I'll get a coffee.

I took this photo of this rose yesterday when I was in New Westminster.

These photos I took of Vancouver over False Creek are from a few weeks ago. I'm not sure why, but the water was green that day.

It's Monday. I woke up to someone knocking on my door this morning. I think it was my apartment manager, she's always asking me to do things for her on my computer because hers is a pre 386 model or Atari or something. Anyway, I was really tired, and I didn't feel like jumping out of bed, throwing on any available clothes and running to the door, so I just stayed in bed until the knocking stopped.

I was up really late last night assembling a new computer for my friend R. I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to stop working on something until I see the final result. I mean, I couldn't possibly build a computer and then leave it until the next day before turning it on to see if it works. That would be the analogical equivalent of waiting an hour for the bus to arrive and then running away as it finaly stops to pick you up.

So now it's early afternoon already and I feel a little disoriented. I think I'd better get out and do something. I think I'll start with a coffee.

Bye for now.