Infrared Photography – Little homes in Trees
I find a lot of holes when walking through the woods, sometimes caves, mounds where something has borrowed under, or even at the base of trees. These photos im sharing are two trees where something has made a home inside. The whole tree is leaning, though appears to be quite alive. I have a feeling its going to fall when we get some heavy rains. But im sure this old tree has deep roots.
 | Lumix GH3, modified by LifePixel for Full Spectrum |
|---|---|
 | Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12mm-50mm |
 | 720nm Infrared Passthrough filter |
 | f/3.5 |
 | 1/250 sec |
 | 800 |
 | Infrared (IR) |
 | 720 nanometers |
 | North Georgia USA. |
This tree was very large I am guessing whatever lived inside was on the bigger side as well. The hole is larger at the bottom but smaller near the top giving it a keyhole appearance.
I like how the bark around the opening has changed and it adds to the entrance of that hole in the trunk.
I wonder if something cleared out the hole or it was made by fungus and rot. Inside its pretty much hollowed out.
I find it pretty amazing these trees stay standing when the base has been hollowed out like that.
Another tree with a smaller hole at the base, not sure if anything is living in either hole right now. Did not see anything come out of them or go in while I was there.
I take pictures with a special camera. Its a Mirrorless DSLR that has been modified by Life Pixel to see light in other wavelengths. This allows my camera to see light in the Infrared [IR] around 1300 NM wavelength, through the visual spectrum and into the Ultraviolet A and B wavelengths roughly into the 300 NM wavelength.
I carry many filters on me to make the photos you see in my blog, these filters screw on my lens and help me isolate certain wavelengths for certain scenes. These filters can be IR / UV pass-through filters to assist me get a natural photo taking out the UV and IR light. Or I may use a Infrared pass-through filter capture just IR light. I can do the same with UV light as well, though I need some better filters which they can cost a few hundred dollars for true Ultraviolet pass through filters. So for right now I have B + W 403 bandpass filters that still allow some IR light in, due to their cheaper material.
There are also exotic glasses made of sapphire and germanium I am open to working with to replace my silica glass hot mirror with a material that allows even longer wavelengths of infrared to enter my cameras sensor. Special sensors, lenses and filters of that material would be needed as well, so it would be a big project but one that may give some even more unique photography results.
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@solominer I was watching a tv show today where 2 rangers were getting a malnutrition bear cub out of a hole that looked just like the top picture, it took some doing but they got him out. Don't know if you have bears just be careful you never know what is living in there.
@myjob interesting story, I believe it. Luckily the hole is pretty small, and I watched it from a distance before approaching.. and yeah we got bears, we see claw marks on trees deep In the forest and on the AT.
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@solominer good to hear, be careful.