The Picnic Oak ver2 - Oak leafing out at Lake Kegonsa state park in infrared Metal Print

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"The Picnic Oak - version 2"
There's a perfect spot for a picnic in the shade of these massive oak tree limbs at Lake Kegonsa State park. This is a close-crop version of a much larger vertical shot showing full tree (search "Picnic Oak" to see), but when I was playing with it today, I realized that the limb texture+leaves provide a strong image on their own.

The oak tree was just beginning to leaf out here, so almost looks as if "flowering". As explained before, this image is viewed in the deep-red and beyond spectrum that is invisible to the eye, and foliage tends to reflect a lot of that spectrum so glows brightly.

Image captured 5/12/22 with Pentax K3 720nm Kolari conversion.

Peter Herman was born and raised on a farm in North Dakota. He first became interested in photography during high-school, and after acquiring a Pentax SLR, began taking photos for the school yearbook and developing/printing B&W images in school darkroom. He continued shooting through college, taking portraits, group pictures, weddings, but after beginning his engineering career at Cummins, he let his photography interests go dormant until about 2005 when he acquired his first DSLR and started shooting scenic landscapes from around the US, but concentrating especially on rural areas in ND and WI. Many of his images were encountered while riding motorcycle down random backroads during "golden hour", searching for that magic light...