I SUPPOSE I SHOULD MAKE IT CLEAR THAT I'M HOME

I keep playing with the infrared, though. Louis never dreamed of a world like this.                 

STL DPB ON THE ROAD AND IN THE VISIBLE SPECTRUM

There are more infrared pix I'd like to play with but, to make things easy, I thought I'd come back to some Pacific pastoral. This is part of the main beach at Tamarindo, taken from the edge of a restaurant. Outside of bigger towns and cities, it's hard to find a restaurant in Costa Rica that isn't open-sided.                    

STL DPB BACK FROM THE ROAD BUT HARD UP FOR MATERIAL

We've been home four or five days but I haven't been out to shoot anything new in The Lou. I got so used to being indolent in Costa Rica that I need a smack to break me out of my doldrums. So it's back to infrared pictures from Playa Langosta. It's fun to play with the spectral highlights you get in IR pictures. If I understand correctly, the inside of most lenses have coatings to prevent visible light from bouncing around much but nothing for these longer wavelengths.               

STL DPB ON THE ROAD - APOCALYPSE, UH, LAST WEEK

From the beach fire dance shown here a few days ago. The finale looks like the end of days or the judgement of the locals, known as Ticos. Except for all the tourists taking photo or videos with their phones.

This has turned into the not-exactly-post-pandemic summer of wandering. Two and a half weeks until we leave for Kansas City and my Mrs. C's area of Kansas. Four weeks after we get back from there it's off to some interesting places in central Europe. It's probably good to get away from Missouri, which is experiencing a sharp increase in infections and deaths, almost all of which are among the unvaccinated. Anyone who wants a shot can get it for free so draw your own conclusions.              

TRICKS WITH LIGHT

I have to mine this vein of visual ore from Costa Rica until I can come up with some new local material. Once again, this is Playa Langosta in an image made with some tricks of the trade. For the technically minded, the picture was taken with a Fujifilm X-T2 converted to an infrared sensor, using Fujifilm's Acros black and white film simulation. That's a mouthful but it looks cool.