Mount Lassen and Chaos Crags in Invisible Light
by Mike Lee
Title
Mount Lassen and Chaos Crags in Invisible Light
Artist
Mike Lee
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
When traveling on California State Route 44 headed to Redding California to see family, I’m always ready to pull over at a little wide spot on the Hat Creek Rim above the little community of Old Station if near-by Mount Lassen is looking photogenic. On this particular mid-morning it certainly was. I put my telephoto lens and deep infrared filter on my full spectrum modified camera and grabbed this frame of the mountain and Chaos Crags to the right of the mountain. The deep infrared produces wonderful black and white imagery and with the contrast pumped up in post production a scene like this takes on a look that I find a bit reminiscent of the great Ansel Adams. In fact, subsequent to my journey in to infrared photography I’ve learned that Mr. Adams actually did shoot some infrared film, which explains some of the very dark skies in his imagery, especially his desert landscapes (although it's somewhat disputed just how much he "warmed up" to infrared compared to just a simple red filter but I digress) .
Mount Lassen (AKA Lassen Peak) is a quite active lava dome volcano whish last erupted in 1915. It is also the source of the name for Lassen Volcanic National Park, a small but extremely beautiful national park in the California counties of Lassen, Shasta, Plumas, and Tehama.
Chaos Crags is a group of six dacite domes formed from an eruption about 1100 years ago.
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘰𝘴 𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺, 𝘉𝘞 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘭 𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘐𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳. 𝘈 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘰, 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘴.
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February 22nd, 2023
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