Bailey Creek Infrared. Plumas County California Winter Landscape

by Mike Lee

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Bailey Creek Infrared. Plumas County California Winter Landscape

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Mike Lee

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Photograph - Digital Photography

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I captured this image on an early “spring” day in Plumas County, California. It was spring because the calendar said it was April, but with low temperatures in the teens and twenties Fahrenheit, it’s hard to call it spring at that time of the year. A local colloquialism in this area is that we have three seasons: July, August, and winter. Another says that we only have two: winter and road construction.

This frame captures a stream known as Bailey Creek, which seasonally flows out of the Thousand Lakes Wilderness into Lake Almanor just a mile or two downstream from this location. I captured the image using a “full spectrum” modified camera and an 830-nanometer filter, so it was completely created with infrared light, which I believe produces wonderfully dramatic black-and-white imagery.

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬-𝘢𝘯𝘥-𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘺. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴, 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭, 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘥. 𝘈 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘺!

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April 6th, 2023

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