tried and true, originally uploaded by McMike-.

#49 of 365 project

mike.irwin and I went out for a day of shooting and made the hour drive up to Muenster, TX to the (fairly) new wind farm. It was pretty early in the day when we got there, so we drove around quite a bit and scouted. Even made it all the way into Oklahoma! Yeah, it sucked.

On the way north, we passed this old fashioned windmill and Mike said he wanted to stop on the way back and get some infrared shots of the tree in the middle of the frame.

I decided to try some different compositions as I don't have a body that makes IR practical. I like this composition, but the light was not great and I had to do a bit of color luminosity adjustments after converting this to b+w.

I'm REALLY happy with the way this one turned out and think it's one of my best shots of the day.

What a terrible day for shooting though. It was in the 30's the whole time with sustained winds of 20mph, gusting to 40mph! So much for long exposures, huh!