One of the challenges of a landscape photographer is the mid day sun which tends to bring harsh lighting conditions with strong shadows not ideal for this type of photography. These conditions however are a plus if you have an infra-red camera. I had one of my older digital SLR camera converted to only detect infra-red light by a company called ACS. You can take infra-red images with the use of filters on a standard camera however this involved long exposures (no hand held shots) and makes composition difficult and you can see nothing through the lens with the filter attached.

Infra-red images have the effect of turning green grass and leaves white and blues to almost black. This effect create some surreal images which can change a relatively mundane outlook into something very dramatic and interesting. The following images where all taken while the sun was high in the sky and all of the other landscape photographers had back their cameras away.