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 a great deal of infrared film, which explains some of the very dark skies in his imagery, especially his desert landscapes.
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.
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February 22nd, 2023
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CAROLE SPANDAU
Your artwork has been featured on the homepage of FAA Gallery Home For All Artists Who Create. Please post your amazing artwork in our` Archive your April Features` discussion.
Barbie Corbett-Newmin
Congratulations! Your fabulous scenic photography has been featured on the home page of the rising star photography group, The 200 Club. Please archive it in the appropriate discussions.
Allan Van Gasbeck
Congratulations! Your outstanding artwork has been chosen as a FEATURE in the “The Gray Scale Outdoors” group on Fine Art America — You are invited to post your featured image to the featured image discussion thread as a permanent place to continue to get exposure even after the image is no longer on the Home Page.
Nancy Carol Photography
WELL DONE! Excellent and thank you for sharing with us your wonderful work of art that has been proudly presented on the Home Page of the group, 'ART FOR PASSION - PASSION FOR ART'. If you wish, you may archive it permanently or promote it further in the Discussions Tabs titled, "Jan Feb Mar 2023 Features."
Jim Cook
Exemplary work! I appreciated your description of how this photo was made. I also never realized that Ansel Adams used IR film.
Taphath Foose
Beautiful work, Mike!!! CONGRATULATIONS, your work is featured in "Your Best Work"! I invite you to place it in the group's "Featured Image Archive" discussion thread and any other thread that is fitting!! 😊
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