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Vasquez Rocks

article and photographs by Ben Lincoln

 

I visited Vasquez Rocks in 2007. You can find my impressions and more photos in the Drive 2007 - Day 06 article.

Vasquez Rocks 2
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NIR Luma / Tinted UVA Colour
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NIR Luma / Tinted UVA Colour
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UVA Luma / RGB Colour
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UVA Luma / Tinted NIR Colour
   

A 3-shot panorama of the view made famous by William Shatner and a host of others. There are a couple of registration errors in the false colour versions, but it's still one of my favourites from this trip.

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

 
Vasquez Rocks 7
[ R-G-B ]
R-G-B
[ Tinted NIR ]
Tinted NIR
[ Tinted UVA ]
Tinted UVA
[ NIR-R-G ]
NIR-R-G
[ NIR-R-B ]
NIR-R-B
[ NIR-R-UVA ]
NIR-R-UVA
[ NIR-G-B ]
NIR-G-B
[ NIR-G-UVA ]
NIR-G-UVA
[ NIR-B-UVA ]
NIR-B-UVA
[ R-G-UVA ]
R-G-UVA
[ R-B-UVA ]
R-B-UVA
[ G-B-UVA ]
G-B-UVA
[ NIR-RGB-UVA ]
NIR-RGB-UVA
[ NIR Luma / RGB Colour ]
NIR Luma / RGB Colour
[ NIR Luma / Tinted UVA Colour ]
NIR Luma / Tinted UVA Colour
[ UVA Luma / RGB Colour ]
UVA Luma / RGB Colour
[ UVA Luma / Tinted NIR Colour ]
UVA Luma / Tinted NIR Colour
 

This is a (very wide 7-shot panorama) view of Vasquez Rocks from the dirt road that leads to the parking lot (just over the hill directly in front). The "Captain Kirk rock" is in the middle. Appropriately, the (unedited) NIR version of this panorama includes a "UFO" (see detail below).

Date Shot: 2007-09-05
Camera Body: Nikon D70 (Modified)
Lens: Nikon Series E 28mm
Filters: Standard Set
Date Processed: 2009-09-16
Version: 3.0

 
Vasquez Rocks 7 (UFO Detail)
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NIR-UFO-Detail
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The detail view of the "UFO" mentioned above. There was a helicopter flying in the area (see RGB detail), and I think it was yawing around when I took that particular NIR exposure. Of course, it's also possible that there was a UFO using human-visible-light camoflauge to appear to us as a helicopter, or that there were both a helicopter and a UFO present, with the UFO being "cloaked" from visible-light observation entirely.

Date Shot: 2007-09-05
Camera Body: Nikon D70 (Modified)
Lens: Nikon Series E 28mm
Filters: Standard Set
Date Processed: 2009-09-16
Version: 3.0

 
 
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