Rural Aermotor False Color
by Mike Lee
Title
Rural Aermotor False Color
Artist
Mike Lee
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
This image captures my favorite old Aermotor windmill near Madeline California. For this image, I used a “full spectrum” modified camera fitted with a 590 nanometer near infrared cut filter. This filter only allows some yellows, along with the oranges and reds of the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum along with the infrared part of the spectrum to pass through the lens. After some post production, most notably swapping the red and blue color channels, an interesting, rather surreal image is the result.
Madeline is an unincorporated community in Lassen County, California, USA, approximately 45 miles north of Susanville on US-395. This is a very remote and rural part of northern California. The predominate industries here are cattle ranching and hay farming but there has been some mining, including gold mining in the region over the years.
I’ve been enamored with this old windmill sitting alongside US 395 for quite some time and have photographed it with traditional visible light gear a number of times in a number of conditions. It just made sense to add it to the list when I started capturing images using “invisible light.”
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May 30th, 2023
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Comments (29)
Robyn King
Congratulations your fantastic art is being featured in Over 2000 Views! Please share your artwork in our featured artist archive thread for a lasting record of your accomplishment!
Alex Lapidus
Congratulations, your image has been featured in the Experimental Photography group -- thanks for sharing it with us! Please feel free to add it to the Jan – Mar 2024 Feature Archive in the Discussion section (using the "embed" link on your image page).
Sharon W
Mike! This image is of such amazing quality, I feel like I can breathe the exhilarating, fresh clean air! What a gorgeous sky, the clarity is amazing! Wonderful composition and there is no doubt this would be a favorite place of mine as well! How lucky to be there!
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!! 😊
Mike Lee
Hearty thanks going out to the wonderful lady in Madison AL for the purchase of a metal print (and the kind words on social media).
Gull G
Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso 🌸 Congratulations on your recent sale 💖
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