Revealing the Hidden Beauty of Colorado
Environment:Start Time: 7:10 AM Temperature: 64 degrees Sky: Sunshine and competing clouds. Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Canada Geese, Ospreys, Mourning Doves, Double Crested Cormorants, Gull, Starlings, Common Grackles, Great Horned Owl, Western Wood Peewee (?), WoodpeckerCritters: Cabbage White Butterflies, Mule Deer, Prairie Dogs, Grasshoppers, Mosquitoes, Pinacate Beetle Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-300mm, Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight; Kolari/Panasonic DMC-ZS100
Environment:Start Time: 2:40 PM Temperature: 41 degrees Sky: Sunshine and puffy clouds and breeze Sightings:Birds: Goldeneyes, Mallards, Gulls, American Coot, Canada Geese, Dark-eyed Juncos, American White Pelican, Belted Kingfisher, Red-tailed Hawk, Pied-billed Grebe, American Kestrel, Hairy WoodpeckerCritters: Tree Squirrels Gear: Nikon D5600, 55-200mm; KolariVision Lumix LS100
Environment:Start Time: 3:05 PM Temperature: 55 degrees Sky: Sunshine with few clouds. Today’s outing was another visit to the South shore of the Arkansas River. Birding was not particularly exciting with only brief appearances of what is probably going to be the standard set of avian subjects. I got a couple of shots of a Great Blue Heron and a Killdeer. Fortunately I also brought along my infrared camera which kept me entertained. I got a number of shots featuring the Arkansas River and its surrounding Winter scenery – one of which is today’s featured image. A second example is…
Environment:Start Time: 8:30 AM Temperature: 53 degrees Sky: Sunshine, clouds and intermittent breeze. Check out last year’s walk on this day! Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Blue-winged Teal, Starlings, Northern Flicker, Gulls, Great Blue Heron, Killdeer, American Kestrel, Belted KingfisherCritters: Prairie Dogs, Grasshoppers, Mule Deer, Tree Squirrel Gear: KolariVision Lumix LS100
Environment:Start Time: 7:20 AM Temperature: 62 degrees Sky: Sunshine, few clouds, some haze, no breeze. Check out last year’s walk on this day! Pleasant conditions prevail though the wildfire haze is starting to creep back into the scene. Very little bird action to record. I caught one little Rock Squirrel exploring the erosion control rocks along the bank of the Arkansas River. I did shoot another Wild Sunflower but I won’t subject you to that. What I did do today was bring along my infrared camera to see if I could get something interesting. I think I did. Shooting in…
Posted above is a new infrared image that I shot October 10, 2020. This was shot with my Kolari Lumix ZS100 Full Spectrum conversion. The image was shot in Raw format using a custom white balance set in camera using a 590 nm filter pointed at an 18% gray card. Once home I developed the raw file using Affinity Photo adjusting exposure, contrast, black-point, shadows/highlights, lens correction, a touch of sharpening and an S-curve for added contrast. Once the image was developed I added only a channel mixer adjustment to swap the red and blue channels to get the great…
Infrared Photography For reasons truly unknown to me, I recently decided to begin exploring the mysteries of infrared photography. I think I bumbled onto the topic while searching on YouTube for something else entirely. Fifty plus years ago, when I first got started taking pictures, infrared photography was a very exotic medium requiring special (expensive) film and extra fussing to achieve proper focus. Now in the digital age of photography…… it’s still expensive but in a different way. Now you need to acquire a modified digital camera that can “see” the infrared spectrum. The images you capture need to be…