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Went to the local store and, it being a beautiful day, took along thr Fuji 720nm-infrared-converted camera, as usual with the 14mm f2.8 Fujinon. As I left the store, I heard clop-clop-clopping and had about one second to grab the camera, turn it on, and make a picture.

Shot in 720nm infrared, desaturated in the GIMP because it looked as if there is a faint color hotspot in the picture. I have to remember to move the aperture off of "auto" to f8 or f11 to avoid this. But I'm happy with this picture of a favorite field in monochrome.

Not really a lily but a kind of amaryllis. A long, leafless stem appears quickly, then the buds and blooms on top. A lovely surprise on hot midsummer days.

It's a (common name) Eastern Bloodsucking Conenose, a species of "kissing bug" capable of carrying a potentially fatal parasite. It sucks your blood and bites you on your lip. At night. While you're asleep. And it's found over much of the U.S. This one, I'm very sad to say, was in my bathroom sink. Yesterday.

Fiji X-E2, 950nm infrared, 35mm f1.4 Fujinon, looking off the bridge into the still, rust-orange water.

After looking at the previous picture, I realized I'd allowed the highlights to get blown out. In infrared, at least in the Fuji cameras and the GIMP, there's a lot more detail in highlights and shadows than you'd think. So after applying auto white balance and doing the red-blue channel swap, in this version I brought the highlights down a stop or so.