Infrared

I could not believe today when I ckecked the Blog and saw that it has been almost 2 months since I last posted. I had to do something so here are a couple of pictures with the old/new camera. I had my Canon 350D converted to infrared and I took it with me last month when I went to Laredo.

I made some pictures just to play around and see how it behaves. Let me know what you think.

The icy road

Spring is almost here, temperatures are rising and the first flowers are blooming. So it is a good time to remember the winter. I took the picture during the Christmas vacation in Spain. It was very windy, -6 degrees and I had no gloves. At this point the road was really icy and dangerous. We were tryig to turn around but there was no place to do it. We still needed to drive up for a while and the way down was not really fun.

I have no time lately for any photography, at the moment life it is just work and kids. I hope it will get better in the near future.

Santander

I am slowly starting to edit all the photos from the vacations. It turns out that I have taken 12000 pictures from which Lightroom tells me are only 2500 left. This means that I still have a lot to delete if I want to have a maximum of 10% keepers.

Anyway here are a few from Santander on a day with a great stormy weather sunset. They are taken with the G10 which behaved quite good in the low light, high ISO and no tripod. I hope you like them.

Summer is over

Today summer has ended, at least it feels like it. We have spent the whole last week at the beach, enjoying the sun. Today it looks a bit different. The weather forecast is more of the same for the next days. I hope it will be better on Friday since we have one of the big events over the weekend here in Laredo. I will take tons of pictures so I will post more about it next week.

Here comes the rain again...

Underwater

Today I had to test my birthday present so we went diving. The sea was quite rough and we got seasick on the way to the dive spot. The water was quite dirty and we could not see much, we had about 5 meter visibility. I didn´t take too many pictures, mainly because we did not see anything interesting, but I am quite happy with the results. I got used quickly to the external flash (Intova ISS 2000) and the G10 was perfect for the job. Next week we will try again and see if the conditions are better. I am really looking for the trip to the Red Sea in October. Until then I hope you like this ones.

Coral

More coral

One of the few fishes we saw today, here you can see how much dirt was floating around.

This one was around 5 cm long

My favourite Mermaid

Going Home

After a complete weekend at home, the only time I went out was to take Miguel to the hospital, the short week has started. It is now time to pack and on Wednesday we will drive down to Spain. We will stop one day in Laredo, at my parents, and then drive to Coruña, to the in laws. We will stay one month in Coruña and then drive back to Laredo where we will spend another month.

I will have some time for photography during the next months, but I don't know how much access to internet I will have in Coruña. In Laredo it will be no problem. So, it might take a while until I can post again, but I hope I will get some nice images that make the wait worth.

The panorama above was taken in Laredo and it is made out of 7 images. I hope I can repeat it again soon with a more colorful sky.

Until then, I leave you with a couple of roses from the balcony taken with the G10 during the weekend. As usual lately they do not have much postprocessing since time is scarce.