Missing lessons
For everyone who bought the Infrared Vision program, and who’s signed up for the Infrared Photoshop Tutorials, you may be missing Lesson #6. There’s bug in my webserver that I am working on today and I will resend Lesson 6 to everyone.
I have also had a few emails from some of you that other lessons didn’t arrive either (grrr technology!), so I will get them up on the website as PDF links (on a private page of course!) so you can download them. I’ll keep them on the site in case you need to refer to them in the future.
My appologies about these rogue lessons! I guess I will have to learn a bit more about web stuff .
If you’re missing any lessons, please check back here before the end of the week for information. Also check you emails for my update!
Those old backroads
By now you know how much I like going for drives far away from the crowded places, to explore the forgotten, abandoned, and dilapidated artifacts of our world. This past week I have “discovered” 2 new places to explore (this weekend!), as well as this place, which caught my eye in a strange way.
This is an infared shot, taken on a cloudy day (what else was there this year!?). I didn’t have any expectations of how it would work out, but I knew that the contrast of the “smooth” looking sky and the cracked texture of the debris needed to be central.
The other 2 places I stumbled upon (not literally thank goodness!) on first inspection, to be good subject matter for Halloween photos, and since the full moon is on Novmeber 2nd, a mere 2 days off Halloween eve, if it’s a clear night, a little “almost full moon” photography in these abandoned places should be very coooool indeed. All I need now is a way to get my 12-24 mm lens repaired – the one that got squashed when I took my tumble…
SHAMELSS ADVERTISING: The PPOC Manitoba Image Salon is on October 17th at Tec Voc High School – come out to see some truly kick as* images. If you think my images are good, you MUST see the rest of the show. It’s FREE and you’ll be MORE than entertained by the Judges – makes Simon Cowal look like Mahatma Ghandi!!! Oh! the repartee!!! Laugh, outrage, rant, it’s all there.
It was just a short trip…
What happened in reality was the damage I did to myself and my gear was the result of one wonky plank on the pier. And as I tripped on it, fully loaded with cameras and lenses and tripods, I tumbled and fell like a bag of bones, camera parts strewn in all directions, my tripod with its 2 lb ballhead had crashed landed exactly in the middle on my dear 12-24mm DX lens, which I soon found out had rendered it fully broken and most likely unfixable! (tears flow). Both cameras seemed to be missing components, which from my inglorious position on my belly I couldn’t immediately spy the location of.
And then as I made a move to re-assemble my self, the pain kicked in! I’d had a filter and my ball of keys in my pocket. Apparently now, bits of polarized glass shards and metal parts had quite inconveniently re-located themselves inside my left thigh.
As I reached down to see just how much blood was spewing from me, a searing pain shot through my elbow. it seems the pier had also claimed a few inches on my elbow skin as well as my camera’s parts!
Quite clearly I was a bit of a mess!!!!
I did manage to get myself vertical again, and did find all the camera bits. Also delightful was discovering that the ginormous Nikon 70-200mm VR lens emerged totally unscathed. I will never again complain that it’s too big and heavy for a peripatetic nature photographer!
I am ever so happy that I had professional Nikon gear, because the upshot of it all was that only one lens was toast – and maybe it CAN be fixed. (ever hopeful)
As for me, the klutz, and my brused bodyparts, I do believe I am on the mend, thanks to nurse Judy. The skin will grow back and cover the bare patch of bone (!) and who needs gorgeous elbows anyway. As for the shards in my leg, fortunately I’m a little too old to be wearing anything THAT short so the battle scars will be my own reminder of my most recent Lake Winnipeg debacle.
Once again the lake leaves it mark! Sorry no photos this time!!!