Yellow Stickered

A trio of shots taken with my old infra-red converted Canon 350D. The first was taken in Paphos,Cyprus. (What self-respecting geek wouldn't want to take specialisd kit thousands of miles away to carry around in the blazing sun?) The middle one was closer to home at Coity Castle, near Bridgend in Wales. The last of the three shows yours truly, together with my long-suffering wife, Jo, at Zygi in Cyprus.

For me, the joy of infra-red is never really knowing what you are going to end up with. The proportion of "keepers" to rejects is low. Live view gives a good indication, but it is the processing that brings IR shots to life.

I didn't need a TARDIS to be in Monument Valley before Doctor Who. We all know that stetsons are cool now, but I must confess to being bare-headed at the time. It was probably a mistake, because it was a little chilly, to say the least.

The end of a beautiful day out and about in Pembrokeshire, catching the last dying rays of the sun. Bosherston is an absolutely stunning place to take an evening stroll, but the only person there apart from me and my better half was a fellow photographer, working on a book about the fauna of the area. You can certainly see why photographers call this time "the golden hour".

Cool and windy weather is no barrier to photography, even if my choice of shorts and sandals was a bit too adventurous. Jo and I braved our way through an ocean of sheep droppings to the megaliths. It's not the best of places to get a decent shot if you want to include all three stones. From one side, you have to include a house in the background, and the other side gives you a splendid vista of telegraph pole. I wasn't overly thrilled with any of my shots from the session. but I chose this one, taken with a Lensbaby Composer with super wide-angle supplementary lens. I think the distortion adds an air of new-age weirdness to the image.