Welcome To My Travel Blog

Well, mostly travels anyway. This is really just an excuse to tell stories about places I’ve been or adventures I’ve experienced. I hope you find them entertaining.

IR Photos – Take Two

In my last post I described Infrared photography, likely causing eyes to glaze over and spontaneous naps to ensue with my not so technical audience. This time around, I’ll just stick to IR pictures and keep the commentary to a minimum. I hope you find them interesting.

Albino Artichoke

A scalped Maple waiting to turn over a new leaf – or maybe a few hundred.

Lenses are even more susceptible to lens flare in Infrared than in visible light.

Rosemary in a sunbeam

This tree should take on a whole different look this summer, when it’s buried in leaves. They’ll all reflect IR light like crazy, turning the tree into a giant mushroom shape.

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I couldn’t decide which version I liked better. In the visible world, it has yellow flowers and green leaves.

Lace Leaf Maple

False Color, big drink of water

Seeing Red

No, I’m not pissed off. It’s a more literal thing.

And even to say I’ve literally been seeing red of late is only a half truth; the red I’m focused on is a red you can’t even see. But I’ll show it to you anyway.

Still confused?

A Winter’s Tale

CRASH!

Before most of the country went into deep freeze, before Texas dominated the headlines with broken pipes and a broken power grid, Oregon was already under a coat of ice. But before even that, in the wee hours of a windy January night, our tale begins.

House Arrest

It’s been crazy in Oregon lately, to the point I now find myself under house arrest.

Ebony and Ivory

Back in 1982 Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder released a tune called Ebony and Ivory, where they sang:

Ebony and ivory, live together in perfect harmony 
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord, why don’t we?

Recently, new neighbors moved in, and we’ve had to ask ourselves, “can we live up to that standard?”

Ain’t That Just Dandy

What do you do when you have a blog oriented around travel photography, and the dictates of a global pandemic says, “thou shalt not travel!”

Southern Comfort

Suppose that you’re a Southern gentleman in the 1840s, and your Philadelphia wife has a hankering to abandon the heat and humidity of the Charleston area and go back home. What do you do?

Doing the Charleston

While current residents of Charleston, South Carolina will likely point out their status as “one of the best cities in the world“, my first impression was of slavery.

Swamped

“Hey Hudson, what’s good to see in South Carolina?”

Come On

You might think, from the title of this post, it’s all a big come on.  Or that it’s a call to arms. But it’s not.

Actually, this post is about eating.