I’ve been recovering from “post-inflammatory bronchitis” after a picking up swine flu. The Flu wasn’t too terrible and I was treated with a course of Tamiflu. When I get sick and feel like whining about how miserable I am, I think of how my grandmother had to watch her mother die from pneumonia, as the one medical doctor on Samothrace could not get antibiotics.

It’s been a couple of weeks and try as I will, I do not seem to be making any headway into regaining my wind/endurance. It’s a constant effort to breathe and I tire easily. I went back to bicycling a week ago and still cannot do my ten miles without huffing, puffing, and being drenched in sweat. I thought I would mix hiking with bicycling (for a daily activity). The past two hikes were very difficult for me. Not at all what I remember them from a couple of years ago.

Anyhow, this down time of recuperation is a challenge. To make use of the outdoor time I have started experimenting with a 72mm, 860 nanometer filter.

A bit of cobbling and I came up with the following at San Diego’s Lake Murray reservoir. Clicking the image will open a new window and animation: