This series of digital infrared photography captures a reality beyond human perception, past 720 nanometers, within infrared wavelengths. The photosynthetic inhabitants of the botanical garden appear uncanny, akin to those on the surface of a distant world. My work in satellite remote sensing motivated me to explore near-infrared wavelengths on the human scale. Brightness values in this range are commonly utilized to quantify vegetation health. These indices homogenize large landscapes, abstracting the individual. Shifts in scale render drastic shifts in analysis and understanding of niche space. Atmospheric scatter of high-energy wavelengths is responsible for the contrast in reflectance between clear and cloudy conditions. UCLA SCIENCE LIBRARIES, FIRST PLACE AWARD.
