Evan Dickson Photography

Iceland, October 2017

So one place I've wanted to go for a long long time is Iceland. But I can now officially categorize Iceland as a place I want to go again. I recently returned from a week in the country, where I was blown away by the rugged beauty of the whole place, and can't wait to go again!

Tiny things!

Last night while y'all were watching tv in horror, I was playing around, building a DIY light box and shooting some of my pottery with it. Kind of a fun experiment.

"In the Upside Down"

I travelled to Western PEI this weekend to visit a shooting location for a film in progress (more on that later). Right next door happened to be this derelict home. And I loves me some derelict homes. Especially with lots of overgrowth. And with some wind to capture motion. And with my infrared handy. :)

We had some crazy weather on the weekend, which is awesome for photography. It changed every 15 minutes (hello, Newfoundland!) between sun, rain, hail, wind, cold, more rain, and then reversed through it all. I headed out with camera thinking it was a good time to try to capture some motion. Always an easier thing to portray when you have something unmoving in the photo, like St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church in, of all places, St Peter's.

This image is from a little over a year ago, but I'm literally on a balcony right now overlooking this building in St Michael's Cemetery, downtown Toronto. This image was created in June, but thanks to the unique properties of infrared photography (we'll just say "because... science", it looks like a frosty winter morning.

In the role of Sea Sprite (not to be confused with Ocean Soul), the lovely Joan Novotny.

It's possible the tourism association seeds the coastal landscape with pretty rowboats to attract photographers.

In Newfoundland, I fully expected to run into large animals. I always had my camera in hand, biggest lens on, ready for a closeup with a bear or a moose, or a caribou. I did see a caribou, once, when my camera was in my trunk. The only other critters I saw in the province were Chip and Dale.

A variation on traditional photography is infrared photography, which takes advantage of an additional portion of the light spectrum outside the limits of human vision.

Depending on the subject matter, an infrared image may not appear any different than a regular image, or it may appear drastically different, depending on the properties of the subject matter. For example, vegetation tends to emit and reflect infrared light , making them appear ghostly and light in IR images.