Selective Color - Flower

Selective Color - Flower, originally uploaded by MonkeyPaw2u.

Selective color processing focusing the color to the flower elements, rather than the background.

What do you think?

IR Touch The Sun

IR Touch The Sun, originally uploaded by MonkeyPaw2u.

How close can you get to the sun before you burn up?

This was shot testing a new Infrared Filter I picked up last week. The filter is a Hoya R72 58mm Lens Filter. The cost was $45 dollars (which included shipping). Now I have to figure out how to use it properly.

The filter blocks out 99% of visible light. So unless your subject is extremely lit, like the sun, you will have to set your exposure to 15 seconds or more to get any detail. Because I was shooting directly at the sun the shutter fired at 1/320th of a second.

Alive and Well

Alive and Well, originally uploaded by MonkeyPaw2u.

For an update... My wife is still in the hospital tonight. She is doing much better. The spots on her brain, found yesterday via an MRI, turned out to be inflamation of an unknown origion.

She remains in the hospital for one more steriod treatment to reduce the inflamation. After her treatment tomorrow afternoon she will be released. IT will be good to have her home.

We appreciate all of the love, prayers and support from our family and friends, here in Flickr and abroad. This has meant so much to us.

This is photo of my hand holding my wife's wedding ring on my pinkie while she went through the MRI. Her ring size is 7 and when I gave the ring back to her after her MRI scan was done it left a mark.... if you look hard you can see it is between my first and middle knuckle. My wedding ring is a size 15 for comparison.

I love you sweetie and me and baby girl can't wait to have you home and feeling better.