Black and White, and Tanked

A bristling water tank near the Boney Lake High School

I sometimes wander around the grounds of the Bonney Lake, WA high school looking for interesting photo opportunities. I had the infrared camera with me this time; I use it to shoot some interesting black and white photography.

As above, green plants show up very bright in IR, and some things look the same in IR as they do in normal light (like the water tank, which is in fact white).

I was trying for a nice composition here, with some interesting elements. The stairs and their shadows are pretty cool; there’s probably a future photograph where just isolating that part of the scene.

There are a lot of electronics up there. The tank sits on already high ground; you can see for miles and miles in every direction up there.

Here is a photograph of the baseball dugout and Mt. Rainier, also taken with the IR camera but preserving the (limited) colors it provides rather than in pure black and white:

Both photographs were shot with the Sony A7III IR camera and Zeiss Otus 100mm f/1.4 lens. Here are two alternate takes which I felt were not quite good enough to make the cut for best in class, but they are still interesting images. A different framing of the water tower, and the black and white of Mt. Rainier. Click to see the full images.