Tag: Nikon D2X infrared

  • Farmers and Merchants Bank – Infrared View, Pilot Point, Texas

    Farmers and Merchants Bank – Infrared View, Pilot Point, Texas

    This infrared photograph, captured with a Nikon D2x IR conversion, presents the historic Farmers and Merchants Bank Building in Pilot Point, Texas. The building, located at Pilot Point Texas, is a landmark of small-town Americana—a relic of early 20th-century Texas banking architecture.

    Infrared light transforms the scene into a surreal study of texture and tone. The ornate Romanesque Revival façade, with its arched windows, carved stone details, and symmetrical brickwork, appears crisp and luminous. Vegetation surrounding the building glows in pale, ethereal whites—an infrared signature that contrasts sharply with the deep, nearly black sky, adding drama to the composition.

    Originally built in the early 1900s, the Farmers and Merchants Bank reflects a time when rural towns invested in grand architecture to symbolize financial stability and civic pride. Though it no longer serves as a bank, the building remains a focal point of Pilot Point’s downtown square, embodying both history and endurance.

    This image is part of an ongoing Americana project, documenting not just places but the textures and atmospheres that define the American experience, often through the unique lens of infrared photography.

  • The Long Road – Monument Valley in Infrared

    The Long Road – Monument Valley in Infrared

    Shot with a Nikon D2X converted for infrared photography, this image captures the legendary view from Forrest Gump Point on Highway 163—where endless road meets timeless landscape. This stretch between Monument Valley and Mexican Hat, Utah, is etched in cinematic history as the spot where Forrest Gump famously stopped running, with the buttes of Monument Valley standing solemn in the distance.

    In the infrared spectrum, the familiar transforms. The asphalt shimmers with alien intensity, while the desert terrain turns ghostly white, and the sky deepens into a void of stark black. Monument Valley’s towering sandstone formations rise like silent sentinels from another world, frozen in time and shadow.

    The composition—perfectly centered on the broken white line—pulls the viewer down the road into the surreal horizon, symbolizing both a journey through the American West and a passage through visual imagination.

    This isn’t just a photograph of a place made famous by Hollywood—it’s a reimagining of an icon, filtered through the lens of infrared light and a camera that still holds up in a digital world driven by megapixels.