Showing posts with label historic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historic. Show all posts
Sunday, 7 April 2024

Dune movie scenes shot in Near Infrared

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One of the big cinematic releases at the moment is the second part of Denis Villeneuve‘s interpretation of Frank Herbert's SF Epic Dune....
Sunday, 11 June 2023

James Jarché Infrared

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I've mentioned in a previous post that the famous press photographer, James Jarché, had experimented with infrared photography in the e...
Tuesday, 20 July 2021

Quote-unquote

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When reworking my Invisible Light web site ( link here ) I decided to include a few quotes that seemed relevant for the subject of infrared...
Monday, 27 July 2020

Weegee and Kubrick: The infrared connection

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I have recently been reading Christopher Bonanos' biography of the famous New York photographer Weegee. Weegee's reputation grew in ...
Monday, 2 December 2019

James Jarché and early infrared photography

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The legendary press photographer, James Jarché (coincidentally the grandfather of the Suchet brothers), was also a pioneer of infrared phot...
Wednesday, 18 April 2018

Infrared photos on 'Britain from Above'

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My attention was recently drawn to an amazing, and freely viewable, archive of aerial images on the Britain from Above site. This features ...
Thursday, 4 January 2018

Infrared or infra-red

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Over time, the balance has shifted between these two names for the radiation with wavelengths beyond red. William Herschel, who discovered i...
Thursday, 7 December 2017

APS biography of Professor Wood

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The American Physical Society published a biography of Professor RW Wood in October. It was part of their This Month in Physics History ser...
Tuesday, 5 September 2017

View from the roof

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During the 1930s infrared photography was regarded as being one of the wonders of the age. It was featured regularly across the pages of nat...
Monday, 5 June 2017

Biggles shoots infrared photographs over Mount Everest

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There has been news coverage recently of the digitisation and publication of films from the archive of the Royal Geographical Society, and B...
Wednesday, 19 April 2017

Professor Wood's slides

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This is a tale I have been waiting to tell for a while. Regular readers will know that in 1910 Professor Robert Williams Wood, of Johns Ho...
Friday, 5 August 2016

Havelock Williams: infrared pioneer in New Zealand

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The 1930s turned out to be something of a golden age for infrared photography, as photographers could now buy infrared plates 'off the s...
Monday, 10 August 2015

Concerning a visit to Bath

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A recent visit to Bath included the Herschel Museum of Astronomy , which occupies a house where William Herschel and his sister Caroline liv...
Tuesday, 4 February 2014

RPS Journal Archive online

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It's a momentous event for photographic historians. The Royal Photographic Society, who have just launched their revamped web site , hav...
Friday, 6 December 2013

Infrared inspiration

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I took my FujiFilm IS-Pro camera with me on a recent trip to Brecon in Wales. This included a restful trip along the Monmouthshire and Breco...
Monday, 10 December 2012

Tristán and Michaud

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In a letter to the Times in 1932, CEK Mees mentioned long-distance infrared photographs of mountains, taken in Costa Rica 'in 1915 or 16...
Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Matson infrared photographs

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An interesting and unexpected source of infrared photographs from the 1930s is the American Colony in Jerusalem, later the Matson Photo Serv...
Thursday, 18 October 2012

Top of the World with Albert W Stevens

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This week's breathtaking freefall from 128 thousand feet by Felix Baumgartner has reminded me of another high-flying pioneer who also p...
Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Thermal video of Concordia shipwreck

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Poignant images from the Concordia shipwreck have been released taken with what I assume to a thermal camera mounted on a helicopter. They ...
Wednesday, 26 October 2011

Free Phil Trans

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Great news that the Royal Society has decided to make its archive freely available on line on a permanent basis. This is covered on this web...