Findley Ridge Part 2 - Infrared Photography

There was alot of old machinery in this location, probably iron and steel. Pretty amazing its held up this well for this long. Plants were growing up the structure and with the heavy rains soil has started to cover the base of the structure of these machines.

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Camera Model	Lumix GH3, modified by LifePixel for Full Spectrum
Lens	Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12mm-50mm
Filter	720nm Infrared Passthrough filter
Aperture	f/3.5
Shutter Speed	1/50 sec
Film Speed	800
Spectrum	Infrared (IR)
Wavelength	720 nanometers
Location	Dahlonega, Georgia USA.

The mud is covering part of the wheel and due to the moisture Lichen has started growing on it.

My friend @whangster79 joined me on this hike for a day and was curious about the machines as well. I told him not to get too close due to snakes or other critters possibly living in the machines and tall grass.

I can see why these massive machines have stayed in this location, no easy way to get it out besides cutting trees out of the area. And the creek snaking through the area is too shallow for a barge to move these machines down the river to the local Park. I think it would be great to see these on display.

That long rod laying horizontal on the forest floor looks like a cam shaft to me. Probably to control the timing of drop of those giant stone stamps. Which would crush the gold rich stone into powder and smaller rocks making it easier to extract the gold inside.

A trail going further off into the woods, you can see people walk it regularly as plants have not grown in there. The path is visible due to the lack of plants.

I took a few steps back and got the most of the machinery in frame, just the broiler tanks off to the left are out of the frame. You can also see debris up on the hill behind the stamp mill. More machinery scatted along the ridge.

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I take pictures with a special camera. Its a Mirrorless DSLR that has been modified by Life Pixel to see light in other wavelengths. This allows my camera to see light in the Infrared [IR] around 1300 NM wavelength, through the visual spectrum and into the Ultraviolet A and B wavelengths roughly into the 300 NM wavelength.

I carry many filters on me to make the photos you see in my blog, these filters screw on my lens and help me isolate certain wavelengths for certain scenes. These filters can be IR / UV pass-through filters to assist me get a natural photo taking out the UV and IR light. Or I may use a Infrared pass-through filter capture just IR light. I can do the same with UV light as well, though I need some better filters which they can cost a few hundred dollars for true Ultraviolet pass through filters. So for right now I have B + W 403 bandpass filters that still allow some IR light in, due to their cheaper material.

There are also exotic glasses made of sapphire and germanium I am open to working with to replace my silica glass hot mirror with a material that allows even longer wavelengths of infrared to enter my cameras sensor. Special sensors, lenses and filters of that material would be needed as well, so it would be a big project but one that may give some even more unique photography results.

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