I've noticed that I suddenly have a lot of AA battery powered photo gear. There's the A95 which serves as my light/flash meter and photographic sketchpad that takes 4 AA batteries. There's 2 Sunpak 383 Supers and a 1 Sunpak 144PC, and each one takes 4 AA batteries. There's the kinda cruddy Sunpak Digital Flash that is now just used to trigger slaves off of my RB67 that takes 2 AA batteries. Finally, there's the Quantaray QS-1 that takes 2 AAA batteries

I'm going to write out a proper entry about my exploration of IR film as part of my series black and white and how I explore it. But I'm in the midst of information to share, so I'm going to share my thoughts and news now and worry about writing out a proper chronology of exploration later.

The Quantaray MS-1, backgrounds, umbrellas, and models

A California Bay Tree in Rancho San Antonio, the third largest in the world.

A tree with brilliantly white leaves

I had Katherine over the other day because I wanted to take some portraits of her now that I know how to take portraits (See, she was one of my first portrait victims as well)

A portrait of Melinda in the staircase of my building

Blue light, mirrored dress, red fishnets, and a red gun