Standing Above

"When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize."                                     

                                              ~Madeleine L'Engle  

                            Waiting 

A camera that takes infrared images (using infrared film or with an infrared capable digital camera) records light the human eye cannot see. This infrared light lies beyond the deepest reds of the visible spectrum.

The camera records infrared light reflected from objects.  Objects that reflect the highest amount of infrared light will appear white and those that reflect the least will appear dark.  That is why skies are dark and foliage light.  The images often appear dreamlike and that quality is known as the "Woods Effect" named after pioneering infrared photographer Robert W Wood.  

                                    The Garden Gate

Though infrared photography has recently become very popular it is not new. 

The first infrared images to be published appeared in the February 1910 edition of Century Magazine.  By 1937 thirty-three infrared films were available from five manufacturers. 

In the 1940s infrared began to be used for aerial photography due to its ability to cut through haze and in the 1960s several artists including Jimi Hendrix, Donovan

and The Grateful Dead used infrared images on album covers.       

101 years after first being published infrared photography is more popular than ever and is featured in many fine art gallery exhibitions.

These images made during the past two years illustrate the ability of infrared to bring to light what we cannot see.

                                           In the High Weeds 
 

                   Two Roads North

                    Ready and Waiting 

                      The Sky Above

                                      The River Walk 

                                      Alfalfa Fields Forever