Framed And Shot
Photography by Randi Gording and Knut Schjerverud
Infra Red
We have converted a Nikon D200 to Infra Red photography. It is a new way to see the world. Places and objects seen in the NIR (Near Infra Red) is both very familiar and very strange. Sometimes even hard to recognize. Our senses tells us how to understand the world, but they sample only small slices of the reality around us. Our senses are limited - in a way they tell us the reality and fool us at the same time... Think about our ability to hear - what if we could hear beyond 20-20,000 Hz, as dogs do? Think about our ability to see, what if we could see beyond the narrow visible light band at 400-700 nm? With our InfraRed camera we extend our senses. It is a new world, and it is hard to anticipate how a scenery will look like when rendered in IR. Typically green leaves turns out very white, almost like covered in snow, and the sky becomes very dark, as do still water. To read more - and see examples have a look at dp-FWIW, (Digital Photography For What It's Worth) at Luminous Landscape or at wikipedia,
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St. Louis Cemetery – New Orleans
Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1, replaced the now vanished St. Peter Cemetery as the main burial ground in 1788 when New Orleans lost many citizens to an epidemic and a great fire. it contains approximately of 700 tombs, tomb ruins and markers in small urban-like precincts. The tombs are owned by individuals, families and societies and most are above ground – for obvious reasons, no grave could be dug of the usual depth without coming to water …
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