I’m figuring out my infrared camera slowly (thanks, John DeAtley and others), using different camera settings. The challenge is in understanding that the camera is seeing things I cannot see in ways I cannot anticipate, so there is a lot of trial and error, a lot of thinking, a lot of experimentation. I feel I am closing in on it.

I saw this clothesline in the back yard blowing in the wind and the dogs waiting by the back door, and it seemed a quintessentially American photograph to me, especially on the Fourth Of July. This is the kind of shot I hope for, something different and startling, the photos say “hush” to me, they have a spiritual quality, perhaps because they show light as it really is, not as we humans see it.