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So it’s been a full year since my last vacation, and the sad thing is I’ve only made a few lame posts since then anyway. It was a great vacation, but what gave the trip to Italy last October was how much I needed it. I took some time off for Thanksgiving, some for Christmas - and since December, I’ve really only taken one day off work.

It’s time for vacation again, and it’s really needed. I am heading out to New York tomorrow morning for just under a week with a good friend from high school. Of course I am really really excited for the break, but more than anything I am excited to get a chance to actually have a lot of free time in Manhattan. I’ve been twice now in the past but haven’t had the chance to do much more than get to ground zero for a few minutes, and then walked down to the water so I could just see the Statue of Liberty way off in the distance. I was there for a few minutes and had to turn around and head back to the airport, leaving me very unsatisfied.

For the short time I had to walk around I snapped a few pictures. I figured I’d dig ‘em up and post em, then over the next week try to remember to post some of my new ones.

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Its been a long time coming for a blog redesign and since all 5 of my readers likely use RSS- they never get to see the actual design of the website (so just in case I attached a screen shot.) Likely: The majority of my 5 readers are the ones who taught me wordpress, html, and photoshop: So any feedback or suggestions for over-all improvement would be welcome.

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Sam from Gthing.net and our buddy Brikon introduced me and my other roommate to Skurfing. Wake-Skate surfing on a canal. We go to a canal in near the mouth of the Spanish Fork Canyon, tie a rope to a cross-beam thing across the canal, and hop on to a wake-skate type board and ride the waves.

The reason this canal is ideal, is a small drop in the cement lined canal, which shoots the water down in a fast and streamlined manner as seen in the video and the pictures. Brikon made the wood board we used, and the video is one Sam took on his first time going. No broken necks, and no injuries (that we will tell you about).

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Pretty recently I wrote a post about how to do infrared photography, how it works, and why everything looks the way it does. This is another batch of pictures I have taken recently that still include the “outdoor” theme from the first batch. I have gone out and taken pictures of other things, and may post those at a later time. This batch of Infrared Pictures come from Provo Canyon.

This picture below was taken of just a tree with a blue sky. I chose to leave the blue/purple colors that Infrared pictures actually produce, since I have to convert them to a black and white gradient to get the look of the other pictures. I did do some minor editing on this one to bring the dark lines out of the tree a little.

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Infrared Photography is something my friend Sam introduced me to for the first time around a year ago. It involves blocking the standard spectrum of visible light when a photograph is taken, and only allowing IR light to be captured (near-infrared to be specific instead of far-infrared). Most digital camera’s have IR blockers in them in one way or another, so the camera I used was modified by two friends of mine. The IR blocker was removed, and a few layers of exposed and developed camera film were inserted in place of the IR blocker. (exposed film won’t let visible light pass through.) What makes Infrared photography so unique and attractive has partly to do with the fact that plants absorb and reflect Infrared light in a very different way than they do with visible light.

Broken down just a little more with an example; when light from the sun (or a light bulb) hits my blue t-shirt, all light in the visible spectrum is absorbed by the shirt except blue. The blue part of the light spectrum is reflected, and is the color we end up seeing. Black shirts absorb all colors in the spectrum, and white shirts will reflect all of them (like snow will also do). We can’t see Infrared light, but it still has materials and objects that will reflect or absorb it in a variety of different ways. Foliage (tree leaves and grass) reflect IR light when generally they absorb all light colors but green. A clear blue sky with nothing to absorb or reflect IR light will appear black or very dark, unless it has clouds which don’t absorb IR.

For more information on Infrared Photography and it’s amazing uses, history, and a much more technical explanation of how it all works, Wikipedia has an excellent Infrared Photography article.

Here a few shots from the first batch of IR pictures I took on my lunch break this recent friday.

These Infrared shots were taken at the Scera Park in Orem, UT on June 8th, 2007. The sky was clear blue, the tree’s were green and full, and the grass was just recently cut.

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Click on the smaller image below to open up the larger image, or click on a preferred wallpaper size. I recently took photography on as a hobby, and decided to start taking pictures of my motorcycle. This was taken in the backyard of my old living residence in Springville, UT. The actual full size pictures have a better looking photo shopped license plate replacement. If you like this Honda VTX Wallpaper, please leave a comment and let me know.

The link from this image leads to a 1200 x 800 version.

2007 Honda VTX 1300c Wallpaper 1024 x 768

If you would like this in another size, please leave a comment and request it.

The motorcycle featured in this picture is my personal bike, where I have written a Honda 1300 VTX User Review on recently. I think the bike is really well rounded, super sexy looking, and is a ton of fun to drive; things you couldn’t get for this price anywhere else.

Since buying this bike I have started collecting minor scratches on the chrome parts, especially the exhaust. After learning how to repair these scratches, I wrote a tutorial on How To Remove Scratches From Chrome Exhaust.

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Let’s not be silly, of course I gave you the option to click on it and make it bigger.

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My family was patient enough to stop at all the different places I wanted them to as I put my fathers camera to use. Lucky Peak is not actually supposed to be this low on water, though droughts happen.

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I have another 5 or 6 photo’s finished from my Idaho trip over Christmas break. Feel free to let me know how you feel.

This is obviously from under-neath a bridge on our trip home from a cabin in Idaho City. The ice was thin- and I am probably pretty stupid from climbing down under there in the dead of winter.

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