Water. You can probably guess where this is going. Have a great weekend, everyone!
Klaus Daimler: “He’s got hydrogen psychosis, the crazy-eye! Steve! They say you’ve got crazy-eye! Get him out of the f*****g water!”
– Willem Dafoe – The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
About this image: Kodak 35mm High Speed Infrared film scan – lightly modified
Refrigerator Magnate 
Oh! How I wish.
Thank you so much for your continued support!
I always sincerely appreciate it!
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Oh this is lovely. Ho DO you do it Bob? Amazing, mystical and fantastical. Black and white makes me … well I can’t say here.
Thank you very much, Ms. B!
Most of the credit for this one goes to the film, though. Infrared is another reason I really miss a darkroom (can be done in Photoshop, too, but I almost always prefer the chance to work with ‘the real thing’)!
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Fairyland! Oh, that looks a peaceful place to be. Beautiful, Robert.
Thank you very much, S.E.!
One of my favorite things about the botanical garden here is how many different places are hidden away there. It seems like I see something new every time I get a chance to visit!
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Beautiful photo, and beautiful place.
Have a great weekend Mr. SIG 🙂
It is usually very peaceful here… which is always a good thing!
Thank you so much, Ms. B! I hope you have a wonderful weekend as well!
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wow. just wow.
Aw, thanks, N.M.!
You are always incredibly kind!
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Water: Going downhill, like your cinema choices..hahahaha
Hahaha!
Count your blessings, Bearman…
I nearly went ‘Zoolander’ today.
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That would have been upstream
*cough cough*
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It looks very beautiful and impressive. I like both English and Japanese gardens. 🙂
They have their own character.
Thank you very much, sir!
I agree! They are both wonderful styles!
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This is beautiful, Bob! Make me miss being home a bit.
This them does make it confusing for us…lol. I’ll make a change soon.
Hugs, xx
Thanks so much, Deb! Makes me miss the botanical garden!
Oh no! I didn’t mean to imply you should change your theme! I was only kidding, Deb!
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Great subject for an infrared shot, spilledinkguy.
Thanks much, Eden! I appreciate that!
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This is such a wonderland of a photo SiG, with such an inviting pull to it. In absolute awe of your skills!
Aw, you are wonderfully kind, Ms. K!
The film did all the work with this one, though!
Well, the film and the botanical garden, I guess!
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“You can probably guess where this is going.” You mean I was supposed to be able to guess which obscure, intellectual movie you were going to randomly quote for this beautiful picture??? I feel like such a failure.
Hahaha…
no, not at all, Peg! That’s just me trying to dream up
someany kind of ‘segue’…🙂
infrared gives a winter feeling …
Indeed!
Sometimes it’s fun to see things through an ‘I.R. eye’, I think.
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Infrared is so weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeird. You (or maybe just I) can tell something different is going on, but you can’t put your finger on it, and then you realize that EVERYTHING different is going on. Great use of it here!
Agreed, U.M.! The other thing I like about shooting it is that I’m never quite sure exactly what is going to turn up… so it’s always kinda wild that way, too.
Thank you so very much!
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That’s just MAGICAL! 😀
Aw, shucks!
Many thanks, Nancy!
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It looks very Japanese garden style. Nice shot
It kind of does, doesn’t it, Mr. M? This was taken at the Botanical Garden where they do also have a designated Japanese Garden area… really, really nice spot!
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One could almost imagine a Unicorn
in the distance on this photograph, it
has that magical flavour and I like your
imaginative style SIG 🙂
Excellent work my great friend…
Androgoth
Actually…
for a moment I could have sworn I saw a Sasquatch (turned out it was only my reflection in the water, though)!
Thanks so much, A.G.! I hope you had a wonderful weekend!
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This is just beautiful. I’m going to have to look up infrared and see what that means in regard to photography! I agree with Androgoth, the unicorn should appear any time now…
Thank yo very much, Patti! I’m sorry… I probably should have included more I.R. info in this post… but that would have actually made sense, you know!
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You almost expect a fairy to jump out and slap your face!
Are you calling me names?
Blahahaha Binky 🙂
Hahaha… hey, kids… don’t make me turn this blog around!
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It stings! It stings!
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The IR adds a very unique style to the image. It re4ally does look like some sort of mystical setting.
IR is pretty cool stuff, isn’t it?! And while it can be done digitally I really miss shooting / processing the stuff… it was always such a rush to see what kind of results I’d find!
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wow, this is gorgeous. very magical, nice work!
Thank you so much, U.M.!
Infrared: just another reason I miss the darkroom!
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Maybe it will warm/sun up tomorrow and we’ll be able to go to the garden!
I guess everyone in St. Louis had the same thought we did! YIKES!
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oh how cool is this, hydrophobia (or whatever it is) notwithstanding!
this is spring (as in the season, but come to think of it, maybe as in the water, too.)
thanks for sharing!
I can relate P&K! I tend to sink a lot better than I float! Fortunately this little stream was only maybe a foot deep (at the most)… especially considering I had forgotten my water-wings at home!
Thank you very much!
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This is magic. You’ve captured magic & spun it with magic – dreamy.
Thank you again!
Much of the credit for this one goes to the film, though… the infrared definitely did most of the work on this post!
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This is so cool! Love it! And yes – with a begining like ‘water’, I knew where it was going.
Thanks so much, Ms. D!
Hahaha…
I had a hunch you knew what I was up to!
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Don’t take this personally but did you personally take this? 🙂 Looks great.
Yup… every image on this site is mine. I took this one back when I still had access to a darkroom, so I was even able to process infrared film myself (a bit of a challenge, but a lot of fun, too)!
Thank you so much!
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Lovely photo! Did you go swimming/fishing/boating this weekend? 🙂
Thank you so much, Mary!
No, unfortunately not… this one was taken a while back at the Botanical Garden. We actually tried to go back this weekend, but the place was packed (as you might have guessed with spots like this)!
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so what exactly makes this English other than it is magnificent!?
Hahaha… if it weren’t for the sign in the ground telling me it was an English Garden I’d probably have called this one random stream! No clue here, J.G.! But thank you, just the same!
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very cool… actually, it looks a bit like an infrared photo 🙂
Back from the days when I had access to a darkroom and didn’t have to ‘fake’ infrared.
Thank you, Nigel!
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This is absolutely beautiful! The water looks so soft as silk. 😀
Thanks so much, Cristina!
One of the bonuses (sometimes) of shooting infrared is that a lot of times you need to use a really dark red filter… so the longer exposure times = some pretty cool water effects, too!
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Looks rather magical! It would appear that there’s an elf or fairie in there hiding somewhere. 😉
I’ve heard the photographer was pretty ‘unusual’, too!
Thanks much, Mr. B!
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well… that kinda went without saying!!!
Hahaha…
I had a hunch!
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Other worldly mood. Well done.
I thank you, sir!
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So beautiful, Inky! It’s like something out of a dream. Simply lovely.
Why thank you, Dishy!
That’s all thanks to the infrared… pretty cool stuff (I think, anyway)!
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Magical. Just like a fairytale.
Thank you very, very much, Nancy!
You are always so incredibly kind!
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