Rhyolite, Nevada (infrared)

BeachBill

A few infrared images from a weekend visit to the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada, about 100 miles north of my home.

Ghost Rider (Goldwell Open Air Museum)


Rhyolite Mercantile (It's for sale!)


Colorado & Golden


Rattlesnakes at School (Panamint Speckled Rattlesnakes in the act of copulation)

tobers

These are really cool. Is it an IR filter you are screwing on the front of the lens, or a specially adapted camera? And if the snakes are IR how did they stay still for so long?

Skippy

BeachBill wrote:

A few infrared images from a weekend visit to the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada, about 100 miles north of my home.

Ghost Rider (Goldwell Open Air Museum)


Rhyolite Mercantile (It's for sale!)


Colorado & Golden


Rattlesnakes at School (Panamint Speckled Rattlesnakes in the act of copulation)

I'm liking the uniqueness of the first image
Where those Rattle snakes in an enclosure, or did you just find them by chance ???

Thanks for sharing .. Skippy
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BeachBill

tobers wrote:

These are really cool. Is it an IR filter you are screwing on the front of the lens, or a specially adapted camera? And if the snakes are IR how did they stay still for so long?

IR converted camera. The rattlesnake image was shot at f/4 for 1/80 second. Oh, and if the snakes would have been moving, I wouldn't have been taking their picture.

BeachBill

Skippy wrote:

I'm liking the uniqueness of the first image
Where those Rattle snakes in an enclosure, or did you just find them by chance ???

Thanks Skippy. The first one is really growing on me as well.

Rhyolite is in the middle of the desert, about 2 miles from the western boundary of Death Valley National Park (California/Nevada border).

There are signs posted all over Rhyolite to beware of rattlesnakes. I had never encountered any in the wild before I took this photo. I was actually warned by a family leaving to watch out for the rattlesnakes by the back door of the building I was approaching. I don't know how I would have reacted if I would have come upon them myself.

Dogdots

That first photo is growing on me too.

Is that a tombstone statue I see in the back right with a guy swinging a pick of some sort?

Rattlesnakes....your lucky they were busy or you could have been in
trouble

BeachBill

Dogdots wrote:

Is that a tombstone statue I see in the back right with a guy swinging a pick of some sort?

That is a work of art titled "Tribute to Shorty Harris". The sculpture is a portrait and self-protrait. First, the "portrait" is of Shorty Harris, an early miner in the Death Valley area. Second, the artist wanted to include in his sculpture an indication of how “alien” he felt in the Nevada desert. The penguin was the most out of place entity the artist could think of to represent his own feelings of displacement under the Mojave sun, a self-portrait then as a penguin in the desert.[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular][/FONT]

Dogdots

BeachBill wrote:

That is a work of art titled "Tribute to Shorty Harris". The sculpture is a portrait and self-protrait. First, the "portrait" is of Shorty Harris, an early miner in the Death Valley area. Second, the artist wanted to include in his sculpture an indication of how “alien” he felt in the Nevada desert. The penguin was the most out of place entity the artist could think of to represent his own feelings of displacement under the Mojave sun, a self-portrait then as a penguin in the desert.

Very interesting. I'm going to have to visit this place sometime.

Using a penquin in the desert is "out of place"

Panther

Howdy Bill,

What a series of unique images, I really like each and every one of them.

Such a neat location, hopefully you have more to show us from this place.

DaddyO

Caution rattlesnakes.
Ghost Rider is so cool.