The Undiscovered Country

Blinded by the Choices

Well, I called it. I did indeed take over 1000 photos.

The good news is I managed to cut out the worst ones leaving me with 50 upload-worthy. The bad news is 50 is still a lot, and it will take me a while to add them to my Flickr page. Not only that, but do I really want to force people to scroll through 50 pictures? One of my irritants (not quite a pet peeve) is when people dump hundreds of photos at once, especially when they all look the same.

I think mine are a bit more interesting than that, but your time is more valuable than mine. Looking through 50 pictures seems a bit too much to ask a person to look at at once. Kinda reminds me of the movies where the proud mother digs out twenty photo albums and force her teenager's date to look through 18 years of photos, all while said teenager gets ready.

Then again, I'm not forcing anyone to look at my photos, so really, does it matter?

It's my Flickr page, after all, and I can upload whatever I darn well please, darn it.

Of my three cameras, one has been modified to receive infrared light instead of standard colors you and I see. For instance, since vegetation blocks most, if not all, infrared, it shows up as white. The sky and water look almost black (because they both absorb infrared). Even freckles, moles and other blemishes on a person's skin doesn't show up, because human skin also blocks infrared.

The pictures end up looking quite surreal.

Those are the pictures I'll be working on next. Those need a bit more modification on the computer than standard photos, because straight out of the camera it looks even stranger. I won't get into the particulars because this is a writing site, not a photography site.

My next entry will have links to my vacation photos, hopefully in the next few days.

I hope you all had a great week, and an even better weekend!