One of the cameras Bill and I took on our trip to Death Valley was his Canon Rebel XTI that has been converted to do infrared photography. Infrared photography can give an “otherworldly” look to your photographs. Foliage tends to reflect infrared, so leaves, grass and such tend to be near white. Still water and clear skies go quite dark, but clouds remain light.

Here are some of the photos he took at Zabriskie Point using the infrared camera.

This photograph gives a sense of the height of the overlook where most of our photos of the Zabriskie Point area were taken from.  The lone park bench on the skyline caught Bill’s eye.

(c) 2008 William Lawrence

This is the same area that appears in the middle two of my sunset at Zabriskie Point photographs.  The infrared adds an interesting contrast to the rocks, and highlights the few clouds that are in the sky.

(c) 2008 William Lawrence

This is the packed sand and sediment at Zabriskie Point showing the unusual contours of the terrain, as well as the texture of the rock.

(c) 2008 William Lawrence

The infrared really gives the photographs of Zabriskie Point a different look and feel.  We’ve found that the infrared does best with primarily clear sky with a few clouds to appear as highlights.  These were taken early afternoon, and were are main infrared shots from the trip, as the skies were most cooperative on this day.