Monochrome Winter
As is evident from a couple of earlier posts, this has been a relatively busy month of work. In between travelling for work and getting in one ocean swim, I have had a camera out on a few occasions, capturing mostly black-and-white images.
February arrived with cold temperatures, some freezing rain/snow and little sunlight. For some reason, this prompted me to go out with my IR (720nm) converted X-T2 to make photos. Shooting infrared does great things with clouds and blue skies. While we had plenty of clouds, there wasn’t much blue in the sky. I still think that these black-and-white images produced under not great lighting conditions are fairly dramatic.
A note about this image: In search of late-day light, we headed toward Ross Bay. We were too late, as the rain/snow started to come down, with heavy clouds moving in from the West. However, some clear skies remained across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, on the Olympic Peninsula. Since I was shooting with my IR-converted X-T2 and the XF35mm f2.0 lens, the mist and clouds in the coastal mountains were well defined. The images below and the cover image were made under similar conditions, either at Ross Bay or at Willows Beach.
More infrared images made on our snowy neighbourhood walks.
As February came to an end, temperatures went up, with lots of rain and a few lovely storms and I continued to photograph primarily in monochrome. To conclude this month’s wanderings, a 2-minute exposure over the Strait of Juan de Fuca, some images from a stormy day and a couple of ICM long-exposures on a foggy morning.
NB: All images captured with either a Fujifilm X-series camera or a GFX50S II camera, almost certainly fronted with Fujinon lenses.
DON CRAIG photography 