Volcanic activity approximately 66 million years ago in the Cretaceous Period created offshore islands beginning in the southern portion of the Oregon coast. The oldest oceanic rocks are the massive, dark ones that form most of the sea stacks out in the water and the dark cliffs on the shore.

I spent a week shooting Infrared images up and down the Oregon Coast, seeing which rocks had different photosynthesizing colors and flora to them. Infrared comes alive in when the sun hits certain rocks here, and my eye caught a patch of rocks that some seagulls were resting on that lit up with color in my Infrared Lens.

I shot this image on my Sony A7riii converted to full spectrum infrared. “IR” photography, offers photographers of all abilities the opportunity to explore a new world – the world of the unseen. Why “unseen”? Because our eyes literally cannot see IR light, as it lies just beyond what is classified as the “visible” spectrum – that which human eyesight can detect.