Mike Pearson's Adventures on a Pale Blue Dot

I have had some old DVD discs for a while that somehow managed to get to the point where my computer wouldn't read them. Luckily one of my friends has some pricey editing programs that could do the job for me. The result was like finding lost and forgotten treasures. Some of these photos are different angles and shots that I never published before. Others are from completely different shooting days. Still others weren't used before, because they weren't as "cool" as the ones that I chose to print or publish. Still other images are not that radically different from the already published ones, but worthwhile adding to the group. Now that the trucks have been moved from that perfect location ( safe from the scrappers ) I guess that all the photos are worthwhile. There are a few shots with some funky lighting going on. It was a darkish fall day, and I packed in a generator and several 500w work-lights to brighten up the setting. Turned out not too bad for a fir...

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...