This is my absolute favourite shot from this trip. I love how in the NIR-based false colour versions (particularly NIR-R-B and NIR-R-UVA), the slopes of the mountain look like the best of sunsets. This is the result of the desert plant life in late summer/early fall (which reflects brightly in the near infrared, but less green light than other plants, and essentially not at all in the red, blue, or UVA parts of the spectrum) combined with atmospheric scattering of the shorter wavelengths due to the distance of the mountains. It's also interesting to note that there are several patches of the mountain on the right that look green to us, but don't actually have any plant life at all.

Date Shot: 2007-09-07
Camera Body: Nikon D70 (Modified)
Lens: Nikon Series E 100mm
Filters: Standard Set
Date Processed: 2009-04-01
Version: 2.0

The multispectral highway.

Date Shot: 2007-09-11
Camera Body: Nikon D70 (Modified)
Lens: Nikon Series E 28mm
Filters: Standard Set
Date Processed: 2009-05-03
Version: 2.0