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A stack of pay stubs made an excellent candidate in Photo Friday's Arranged challenge.

A photo from our trip to Amsterdam, now used as an entry for Photo Friday's Wheels competition. Here's a larger version for those that don't have access through flickr.

This week's Photo Friday challenge is: Self Portrait 2010. I immediately thought of the gangster shot we did when we made our visit to Dorothy at the beginning of the year. By no means did I do this shot alone, but I was a big part of the creative setup of the shot.

The pseudo shotgun in my hand is from a Hallowe'en costume some years ago. The coat and hat are regular attire. We're set up on the bridge in Dorothy with a generator, and two White-Lightnings. The first is behind me, at full power, aimed straight at my back to separate me from the darkness. The second is on camera right with a super tight grid where I was thinking of a 'caught in the headlights' look. The photograph is only cropped, as I didn't even have the desire to edit out the extension cable you can see running across the ground.

A shot of the sun setting over Lac le Jeune.

Photo Friday threw up the challenge of 'Distant' and I figured I'd use one of my more recent photos from Dorothy Alberta.  The photo is taken using an infrared converted D70s.  I found the highway intriguing as it was straight for what seemed like forever, before taking a sharp turn out of the valley.

The only post processing done was to convert the RAW into a Monochrome.