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
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.
Size: 5472px × 3078px
Location: Shasta County, California, USA
Photo credit: © Mike Lee / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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