More Fun With Digital Infrared

Last weekend I got in a quick trip to the Tri-Cities in Eastern Washington. I left Thursday morning and returned late Saturday afternoon. It's a fairly long
drive from Astoria, nearly six hours, but it was worth it to get a little sun and warm weather. Of course, I also managed to get some shooting in, snapping off about 800 frames. The converted digital infrared camera came in very handy, allowing me to shoot in very bright, hard, contrasty light. Fortunately, there were interesting clouds most of the time, so the skies looked very dramatic in the photos. The photo of the vineyard above was taken a few miles north of Pasco when I was trawling along some farmland looking for stuff to shoot. This vineyard just popped out as something that had to be shot--the composition of the rows of grapevines and the hill seemed perfect.

The next photo is of some old silos in beautiful Eltopia (yes, it's really called that), Washington, which is about 15 minutes north of Pasco. Eltopia is a photographer's paradise, teeming with dilapidated, abandoned buildings. I could have spent hours there amid the ruins, but I was was supposed to be back in Richland for lunch with my kids, so I had to curtail my shooting after about an hour. I'm hoping to shoot again in Eltopia, hopefully next year.