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Ghost of Termo False Color
On the way home from a camping trip I pulled over at Termo California (gateway to Madeline, Likely, and parts beyond). It was a good place for a leg stretch and, since starting my journey into near infrared photography, it has been on the list of places to explore in invisible light. There are the remains of an old gas station/market there as well as this old abandoned house with an old cottonwood tree in what used to be the front yard. I shot this image with my 590 nanometer filter, which allows the orange/red end of visible light through along with the near infrared. This allows for some interesting opportunities to get creative in post production and create interesting “false color” images such as this.
Termo, which as also gone by the names Snowstorm and Armstrong, is a bit of a ghost town in Lassen County, California. It was located on the now abandoned Southern Pacific Railroad line 32 miles (51 km) north-northeast of my own Lassen County home. I was the original 1900 terminus of the Nevada–California–Oregon Railway, before the line was extended north. In my youth a gas station and small market operated there but as highway speeds have gotten faster and automotive ranges have gotten longer, it has long since been abandoned and have also fallen into decay.
Prints available:
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Ghost of Termo False Color
On the way home from a camping trip I pulled over at Termo California (gateway to Madeline, Likely, and parts beyond). It was a good place for a leg stretch and, since starting my journey into near infrared photography, it has been on the list of places to explore in invisible light. There are the remains of an old gas station/market there as well as this old abandoned house with an old cottonwood tree in what used to be the front yard. I shot this image with my 590 nanometer filter, which allows the orange/red end of visible light through along with the near infrared. This allows for some interesting opportunities to get creative in post production and create interesting “false color” images such as this.
Termo, which as also gone by the names Snowstorm and Armstrong, is a bit of a ghost town in Lassen County, California. It was located on the now abandoned Southern Pacific Railroad line 32 miles (51 km) north-northeast of my own Lassen County home. I was the original 1900 terminus of the Nevada–California–Oregon Railway, before the line was extended north. In my youth a gas station and small market operated there but as highway speeds have gotten faster and automotive ranges have gotten longer, it has long since been abandoned and have also fallen into decay.
Prints available:
pixels.com/featured/ghost-of-termo-false-color-mike-lee.html