As I continue to add items back to both my image galleries and as blog posts, I decided that I wanted to share an image from a photography technique that isn’t really widely used.

This image was captured near Safford, AZ back in 2009 with a Nikon camera that had been converted to capture images in the infrared light spectrum.  As a general rule, digital camera sensors are very good at capturing light on a pretty wide spectrum, far wider than what our human eyes can see.  Because of this camera makers add filters to their sensors to block out the light that we can see and only capture what we can.  When a camera is converted to IR, or even UV, they remove the filters that block those areas of the light spectrum and add filters that block everything other than what you want to allow through, in this case the IR spectrum.

I have a lot of IR captured images, only a small amount added to my galleries here so far, but one thing that most people tell me when they see them is how it makes them think of winter.  In this case it was the very hot day in June in the Arizona desert, if I had to guess it was probably about 110 degrees out when I shot this. 🙂

Stay tuned, I am looking forward to posting more IR images and do a few of them as my new “AI Edition” posts.