The days here in Maine are finally making it above the freezing mark. Things are melting in the balmy 38 degree air. I’ve gone down to spring sweaters and a lighter coat, doing my best to ignore the three feet of evidence on the ground that winter isn’t quite done… yet.
But I know its hold is dissipating. I have a dog with muddy paws to prove it! And so it doesn’t seem so chilling to share a beautiful panoramic of Moosehead Lake – our largest lake here in Maine.
Raven got this photo a week ago. The lakes are going to be frozen for awhile longer. And, actually, this is three photos stitched together. Lending to the cool weather feel are the not-green trees. They’re more of a frozen blue. Because the photo is in infrared!
Raven has always loved black and white, but taking a color digital photo and turning it to B&W doesn’t result in the same crispness of black and white film. The end result usually has too many greys and not enough true whites and blacks. It feels flat. But IR… it captures the nuances color turned black and white misses. The contrast on the hills and in the texture of the snow, something that would have been completely lost in color, are visible in IR.
So what does this mean? I expect to see a lot more IR images coming from Raven! I’m wonder what a whitish-blue palm tree will look like…?