Mike Pearson's Adventures on a Pale Blue Dot

Here are a series of infrared images from the Derelict Textures series. Abandoned, rusty machines, trucks and cars captured in true IR with a D-40x converted by LifePixel to capture IR wavelength light only. It takes a while to get the knack of shooting IR images. You have to re-think lighting, background, white balance, shutter speed and textures. These are some of the first images that I took with the newly converted camera ( I bought it for the purpose of converting to IR )..I would set-up the camera differently now...knowing what I have learned since. Before we begin...here are a few images from the property that these first few subjects were sitting on. A truly magnificent 60 acres of land that edged up to the Georgia Straight. At the time that the photos were done, the property had just recently been vacated by the elderly long time residents. The old house is barely visible in one of the photos...a small beach house on stilts with a kings view is at the oceans edge. The main h...