In early 2006, I tried my hand at infrared photography. The Nikon D70 is notable for not only being Nikon's first affordable digital SLR, but for having a weak hot mirror filter. Not as weak as the D2H, but weak enough to allow 10-second exposures through a Wratten 87C in decent sunlight. This scene at the Chadron Reservoir shows a pond-side tree lit by the early morning sun. In September 2006, the fall colors were out in force, so naturally I played with black and white photography. (I think I have some color photos from this trip too. I'm not a savage.) I like the fainter form of the tree in the left-hand background, plus the contrasting lines of the foreground trunk and branches against the glowing leaves.
