OK, so Wipeout! Is one of those shows that you’ll just hate yourself for watching. I hate to admit to watching it myself (my interest being entirely professional, of course). It’s a bit like admitting you watch Australia’s Funniest Home Videos or The Farmer Wants a Wife. It’s cringe-worthy, embarrassing and somehow, completely addictive.At its most basic, Wipeout! is a kind of athletic game show in which contestants race against the clock around an obstacle course with the winner taking home a wad of cash. Sounds pretty boring, right – the Amazing Race without the scenery.But two things conspire to make this a rather addictive concoction. The first is the fact that the people doing this are Americans – not regular Americans mind you, but the kind of Americans whose ultimate desire in life is to get their mug on television, no matter how dire the show. They’re an eclectic mix of type - A jocks, people well past their prime who think they can still cut it in sports and the plain deluded. Oh, and they usually include someone whose job description contains the words “exotic” and “dancer”.
As some of you probably know by my previous posts, I’m fascinated by trees. There’s something really soothing and calming about them to me.In infrared photography, the film or image sensor used is sensitive to infrared light. Because everyday objects reflect infrared in proportions that differ sharply from that of visible light, the tonal relationships are wildly unexpected. Such near-infrared techniques used in photography give subjects an exotic, antique look. Green vegetation becomes white, whereas human skin becomes pale and ghostly.
1. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)Construction of the building started in in January 2003 and in December 2003 it was finished. House architecture is based on Jan Marcin Szancer (famous Polish drawer and child books illustrator) and Per Dahlberg (Swedish painter living in Sopot) pictures and painting. 
