New Mexico provides many interesting subjects for infrared photography. Ancient pueblos and kivas found at sites like Chaco Culture National Historical Park and Aztec Ruins National Monument make for great black and white or faux color images, using infrared to create dramatic cloudy skies and give the foliage around the dwellings a luminous glow. Similarly, old adobe style mission churches and desert succulents, such as the ocotillo plant, look great against a clear blue sky when using a deep IR filter.
A 900 year old Anasazi great pueblo house at the Aztec Ruins site north of Farmington, NM, processed for black and white. 590 nm Super Color IR filter in a Canon 7D converted camera.
Cottonwoods budding over Aztec Ruins, processed for a faux color "goldie look". 590 nm Super Color IR filter in a Canon 7D converted camera.
Anasazi dwellings on the Una Vida trail look over Chaco Canyon and the Fajada Butte, processed for black and white. 590 nm Super Color IR filter in a Canon 7D converted camera.
Thunderstorms pass by the ruins of an ancient Anasazi dwelling on the Una Vida trail at Chaco Canyon, processed for "goldie" faux color. 590 nm Super Color IR filter in a Canon 7D Converted Camera
Remnant walls of an ancient Anasazi dwelling looks over Chaco Canyon on the Una Vida trail, processed for black and white. 590 nm Super Color IR filter in a Canon 7D converted camera.
The fantastic forms of ocotillo plants against a cloudless sky. 850 nm deep IR filter used with a converted Canon Rebel T1i converted camera.
Ocotillo and other succulent plants in the New Mexico desert near Carlsbad. 850 nm deep IR filter used with a converted Canon Rebel T1i converted camera.
The adobe-style San Felipe de Neri Church in Old Towne Albuquerque. This church was originally founded in 1706, however, the current building dates back to 1793. 850 nm deep IR filter used with a converted Canon Rebel T1i converted camera.
Foliage in the courtyard of the adobe-style San Felipe de Neri Church in Old Towne Albuquerque. 850 nm deep IR filter used with a converted Canon Rebel T1i converted camera.