I Had A Busy Morning,

our refrigerator decided to make the refrigerator part of it a freezer!

 

so a new fridge/freezer it was, I should point out that I am only making one post a day over the next few days, as today not only will our refrigerator/freezer be arriving but also first thing the window guys will be calling by, to ease 2 of the windows that have become shut solid, back to Thursday, we started looking for a new appliance, only to find that we had 2 choices, go for a cheap no-name brand, or go for a name we knew of, actually the choice was made for us, all of the no-name ones we wanted were either out of stock or 10 to 14 days delivery, it appeared only the major brands were in stock and available for delivery next day, so that was that, we also took out a 5 year warrantee, the quote to renew our less than three year old LG television screen for £2,200 was still fresh in our memories, all of that took most of the morning, in the afternoon Diana had a few ZZZZZ's after her early morning start, so I had some free time in the afternoon, so another short video, I started on part 16 of the trip Neil and myself made to India, looking for new species of fish for the aquatic trade, we visited Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh, all in the top north eastern part of India,

 

in this video we are in India but looking across the border to Bangladesh, after a drive we found a small tributary, where some of the villagers were washing clothes, it was at this point I realised why so many of my shirt buttons were missing or broken! we watched one of the locals cross the river and cast his net, quite successfully, a few stills from the video below,

 

the river we looked in, 

 

me hard at work, 

 

Neil was working too, 

 

a large tadpole, locally called the RAF tadpole, because of the round circle on both sides of it, 

 

for both of us it was important to have a record of the fish we thought was a new species, 

 

I had slightly more hair then!

 

and here he is, alas, it was just a regional variety of a known specie, next I decided to play with a infrared photograph, 

 

the photograph came from our last day in Penzance, in 2020, above myself with the double camera set up, both cameras the same except one has had its sensor replaced with a infrared one,

 

the photograph from the normal camera, 

 

and the one from the infrared camera,

 

I swapped the colour in photoshop, in a faux colour swap that I had downloaded into it,

and started adding colour in the NIK Collection of tools that you can also download into it,

 

just a matter of trial by error, 

this looked nice, for me that is, infrared photography is not to everyone's taste,

 

a tad lighter, 

 

 

then a little colour out and back in again, 

before I was happy with this result, 

 

I tried again in NIK for a antique look, then I decide on a bit of fun, take this wildly way over the top infrared photograph, but put a normal sky in, 

 

and here it is, if you are interested in infrared photography we have a site with just IR photographs here, and a look at how I play with IR photographs is here, 

 

as it happens only last week I changed the photographs in the 12 frames we have on one of the living room walls to all IR photographs, 

 

 

here are a few of them, church, Santorini, Greece,

steps in Coombe Woods, South Croydon, UK  

the weir at Bath, UK if you want to look at the rest of them they are here, by now Diana was back from the Land of Nod, after our evening meal it was time for a BattleBots, followed by an Endeavour, then on to ITVX for a Midsomer Murder, before we were off to bed.