I wondered how Fate would look in the meadow with my IR camera, and I was surprised. The camera picked up on her head plowing through the tall grass towards the road, and it also picked up in the unseen light in the grass and leaves and trees, and the result was mystical and beautiful to me, because it captured the sense of this joyous little dog, a tiny speck in the vast woods but completely at home and natural there. It was one of my most interesting experiments with the IR camera, and experiments with this camera have a very high failure rate. None of the 20 other photos I took worked at all. And I’m not quite sure why this one did, but I’m grateful for it.
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August
Fate In The Meadow. IR.
by Jon Katz