Author Archives: imagist

…drew me in to watch. And watch I did. Until I saw its heart beat. Hasselblad 500 CM/CF-39, 80 mm Zeiss Planar on Extension Tube

…at Deanie Neiman’s Farm Stand (click photograph for larger view) Tanya in the Corn Maze; under infrared light; outside the “visible” spectrum. Leica M8, 40 mm Summicron w/ B+W 093 IR Filter Sophia and Tanya transformed. Father and Daughter “pick their own” rasberries. Leica M, 28 mm Summicron Asph

…on the last day of the exhibit, this past Sunday, aptly titled Van Gogh to Pollock — Modern Rebels. Anyone who attended Art School in the Sixties and Seventies would certainly appreciate this intense, succinct, little collection; which provides a strong synopses without overwhelming. Though I did feel a bit underwhelmed by the POP and after collection; […]

…beautiful …people …music …food …sun what else could one ask for? Thank you Alverno. (click photograph for larger view) Above: Leica M8, 40 mm Summicron w/ B+W 093 IR filter Leica M, 135 mm Elmar

…my Dad would take us, me, my sister and a couple friends, to the Lion’s Den. A mysterious place. No one was ever there but us. Had to walk a long way from the road, down through a deep gorge, that cut through the 100 to 150 foot high bluffs; on the Western shore of […]

all over the place (click photograph for larger view) Canon 5D, EF 70-200 mm 1:2.8 L IS USM w/ Extender 2x II

In the so-called “good old days” we always carried one camera loaded with color film and another loaded with black and white film. And if we were feeling “experimental” we might load a third body with some infrared film, or super fast film, or super slow fine grain film. So when we decided to go […]

I purchased this 40 mm, the smallest, lightest Summicron that Leica ever made, to use with the M8 and my B+W 093 IR filter. Though it’s such a sweet performer; with such a unique and lovely field of view on the full frame sensors; that I just keep wanting to try it in all possible […]

Stroll the front porch… consider the concept of creating photographs while blocking all “visible” light… to create images of the unseen. Allow only infra-red waves above 830nm to pass through the lens and strike the sensor. In other words make the previously “invisible” (to the naked human eye) visible. Art should do that. Show us visions we could not see before viewing […]

In last week’s blog post I fiddled around with the Leica M8 and an Infrared Filter (because the M8 is extremely Infrared sensitive). Even though all of my wide and so-called “normal” focal length lenses demonstrate a very prominent “hot spot” when photographing with an Infrared Filter. This requires significant post production work on the computer […]