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]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/23363271/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/23363271/ Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:22:23 PST For this next week I will be going through some of my older pictures that I have not posted and post some.

]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/22169244/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/22169244/ Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:50:32 PST I wish all of you the best for this holiday time and next year.
Silas

]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/21494202/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/21494202/ Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:54:08 PST In other news my little brother is now a member here. He is spyder007. [link] Please check out his work.

]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/18125467/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/18125467/ Thu, 01 May 2008 22:19:41 PDT a lot of things have happened since my last journal entry. First of all, I finished my two weeks in Korea, and then went to Japan for two weeks before flying home to California.
To see the mess a great big elm tree made of my house when it fell back in January.
The tree is kept me is the since the middle of February.
But some good news is that I just thought they needed to camera. It is a Sigma SD 14. One thing is its very good at making pictures in infrared.

]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/16553396/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/16553396/ Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:23:55 PST Since last time I continued my China trip by going to Chengdu where I went to the Panda that research Center and got to take pictures of pandas. After that I went to Guilin to see the Li river. Which is an absolutely amazing place. From there I had a shortstop over in Guangzhou on my way to Shanghai. After a couple of days in Shanghai flew back to South Korea on January 14.
Overall my trip to China was very good but I did miss blue skies and that you don't need to wear sunglasses in China.

]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/16038558/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/16038558/ Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:35:46 PST More soon

]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/15708693/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/15708693/ Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:38:25 PST I have time and I'm working on my pictures from Japan trying to get a slideshow ready to show several different groups. So I will be submitting pictures from Japan over the next few days.

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]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/13844496/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/13844496/ Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:52:53 PDT Thank you Silas

]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/13019912/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/13019912/ Sun, 20 May 2007 00:25:43 PDT I have been back in California for about seven weeks now. When I first got home had many things to do but I finally in the last couple of weeks I have time to work with my Olympus E300. It is taken some time to learn how to correct the infrared images but now I am getting infrared image is that I am quite happy with. I have learned a lot about dealing with infrared and doing channel splits in Photoshop.
When I first came home all I had was dial up Internet and after using the Internet in Korea (which is 30 times faster than dial-up here) I just didn't want to do anything on the Internet so I finally spent the money and got satellite Internet which is nice and fast but still has some disadvantages over DSL.
Now that I'm kind of caught up on my work and have high-speed Internet I will try to spend more time here and submits or pictures.

]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/12094884/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/12094884/ Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:13:04 PST First another birthday, the family I’m staying with here in Korea got a cake can candles for my birthday. We had a nice little party.

Sad:
I have just about finished teaching English in South Korea and now I have to say good bye to all the friends that I have made here.

Happy:
I will be going home. I will get to see my family and friends.
There is an Olympus E300 digital camera which I ordered last August and did not arrive until one week after I had left for Korea, which is waiting for me come home.

]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/11269296/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/11269296/ Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:55:21 PST The only disappointment is it will not replace my Olympus for making infrared pictures. ( but that was just a wish)
I will be posting some pictures that I made in Japan with my Pentax W20.
I almost forgot with all the fun of getting a new camera to tell you that I spent all week in Japan and enjoyed my Christmas there.
Thank you for the support and I hope all of you have a great 2007

]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/11223879/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/11223879/ Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:38:02 PST I will tell you more later

]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/11146610/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/11146610/ Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:32:08 PST So I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.
With love to all of you,
Silas

]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/10419988/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/10419988/ Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:21:13 PDT I don’t think nuclear weapons make any country safer. I hope that North Korea and the United States of America do not do anything foolish.
At least for now I am staying put and hoping all goes well
Silas

]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/10161453/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/10161453/ Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:25:51 PDT I am now in Japan and on the start of my travels for this year.
I am looking forward to making some new to pictures for you to enjoy.

]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/9327809/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/9327809/ Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:56:46 PDT I’m hoping to get to try a friend’s Nikon D70 with an infrared filter to see how well it does. Also another friend of mine or doing some experiments with a Sony 707 in nights shot mode with different filters so far the results look very promising, soon he will be doing the same shots with a modified for shooting infrared canon rebel and I will be very interested to see his results. ]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/8659770/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/8659770/ Wed, 03 May 2006 07:47:27 PDT
I finally got my Internet service straightened out so now I can submit some pictures in the next couple of days.

It is good to be home and see my family and friends. ]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/8423937/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/8423937/ Mon, 10 Apr 2006 03:53:09 PDT I’m back in Japan for two weeks before flying home to California. It’s definitely Spring here, with new little leaves on the trees the cherries trees are blooming the only thing wrong is it’s raining so I haven’t gotten the shooting e pictures because it’s just too wet.
If it’s raining tomorrow I will get myself an umbrella and then I will be able to get some pictures. ]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/8271597/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/8271597/ Sun, 26 Mar 2006 05:46:16 PST I a shot a lot of pictures here but been so busy they haven’t had much time to go through them and post them for you. ]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/8122808/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/8122808/ Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:28:40 PST To all that interesting people that I’ve met I wish them another wonderful year. ]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/7917792/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/7917792/ Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:06:21 PST I have done infrared photography before with Kodak high speed infrared film and 35mm cameras and with Kodak 70mm aerial mapping film cut down to use in a 120 camera but never liked the way I had no feedback on the picture before I process them. Then I got an Olympus C-2000 camera which is very good for shooting infrared digitally but it is only a 2 Megapixel camera. This marked the start of my digital photography and my next digital camera was a Canon D30 which I was told Was no good for making digital infrared pictures (but it may not be as bad as I have been told) And then I got the Canon Rebel XT Then I started to read articles about having cameras modified to shoot infrared and that the Canon Rebel XT is better And then some of the other Canon digital cameras for infrared. So I decided to get a filter and give it a try. I’ve learned some things and like that kit lens (18 to 55 mm) has the Heights spot to when shooting wide angle.
The other problem is that it’s still winter here in Korea, and there is very few green leaves for a good infrared affect. ]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/7561741/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/7561741/ Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:15:10 PST *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/7150977/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/7150977/ Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:18:00 PST *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/6918321/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/6918321/ Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:47:25 PST *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/6743939/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/6743939/ Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:00:56 PDT I will tell you more when I get there. ]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/6291827/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/6291827/ Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:54:58 PDT *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/5672404/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/5672404/ Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:37:33 PDT *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/5387786/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/5387786/ Tue, 17 May 2005 22:55:30 PDT *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/4975478/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/4975478/ Fri, 01 Apr 2005 23:44:10 PST *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/4674475/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/4674475/ Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:08:10 PST I have a lot of new photographs and I made many new friends.
I will be submitting photo from my travels very soon.
Silas ]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/4397818/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/4397818/ Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:48:35 PST Silas ]]> *sanddragon http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/4150577/ http://sanddragon.deviantart.com/journal/4150577/ Sat, 25 Dec 2004 00:33:00 PST As the year draws to an end it is time to be thankful for the blessing that have come to each of us, and to look forwards to the new year. Let us fill the New Year love, joy and friends. ]]> *sanddragon