ART PHOTOGRAPHY
© All rights reserved

Life in Another Light 

Infrared Photography 


One of the genres I have been exploring is infrared photography which enables me to show familiar subject material in a totally different way. The infrared part of the light spectrum is not visible to the human eye (it lies beyond the colour red) and so the colours we assign to it in post-processing are a purely subjective mapping back onto the visible spectrum. In that sense, the colours are not ‘unnatural’, but an interpretation. This offers enormous scope for processing the photographs to create images that are visually pleasing, emphasising areas of focus with different colours. 


 I have selected these images from dedicated photography explorations of Chicago, Crete, Normandy and Highgate Cemetery in London. 


These photographs have been captured on a full spectrum converted Nikon Z7 II using a variety of Kolari Vision filters. They have been colour shifted in post-processing to create the resulting images.

Colour infrared image of the Chicago skyline, with white trees in the foreground, skycrapers in the background with a dramatic blue sky
Colour infrared image of the Chicago skyline at sunset, with a curving concrete jetty in the foreground, long exposure of the sea giving a smooth surface, and skycrapers in the background
Black and white infrared image of the aqua building in Chicago, showing a dramatic countours of the balconies like ripples, pools of white glass, against a near-black sky
Black and white infrared image of the aqua building in Chicago, showing a dramatic countours of the balconies like ripples, pools of white glass, against a near-black sky
Black and white infrared image of the aqua building in Chicago, showing a dramatic countours of the balconies like ripples, pools of white glass, against a near-black sky
Colour infrared image of the Frank Gehry Bridge in Chicago, showing the dramatic sweep of the silver metal bridge, with purple grass and foliage, against a grey-green sky
Colour infrared image of the Frank Gehry Bridge in Chicago, showing the dramatic sweep of the silver metal bridge, with pale yellow-green grass and foliage against a violet sky with clouds
Colour infrared image of the Frank Gehry Bridge in Chicago, showing the dramatic shape of the silver metal bridge, with a road and a passing car in the foreground, with pale salmon-pink grass and foliage, against a pale blue-grey sky with clouds
Colour infrared image of the David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago in Chicago, showing the bold architectural forms with pale salmon-pink foliage, also reflected in the glass windows, against a pale blue-grey sky with clouds
Colour infrared image of the David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago in Chicago, showing the bold architectural forms in blue with pale salmon-pink foliage reflected in the glass windows, against a pale blue-grey sky with clouds
Colour infrared image of the David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago in Chicago, showing the a close-up of architectural forms
Colour infrared image of the flagship Burberry Store in Chicago, showing the a close-up of architectural elements of the windows with bold diagonal shapes and orange tree foliage reflected in the foreground
Colour infrared image of the Student Union Building at the Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, with magenta trees and foliage reflected symmetrically in the plate glass windows against a pale cyan sky with clouds
Colour infrared image of the St Columba Church in Tofino on Vancouver Island, with pale orange grass and foliage, set against dark blue sky with clouds
Black and white infrared image of the spire of the St Columba Church in Tofino on Vancouver Island, with white foliage against a dramatic dark sky with clouds
Colour infrared image of the a wooden jetty in Tofino on Vancouver Island, placed centrally in the image, with the dark blue sea in the foreground and orange foliage on the wooded mountains in the background, against a mid-blue sky with clouds
Colour infrared image at the Amirades hotel in Heraklion, Crete, looking out to sea with palm trees symmetrically to the left and right, with pale yellow-green foliage against a dark violet sky
Colour infrared image of palm trees in Heraklion, Crete, looking out to sea with a sliver of sea showing in the lower foreground, with pale salmon-pink foliage against a dark blue sky
Colour infrared image of palm trees in Heraklion, Crete, looking out to sea with a sliver of sea showing in the lower foreground, with pale bright pink foliage against a dark green sky
Colour infrared image of Pegasus Bridge at Bénouville in Normandy, showing the lake close to the bridge where the gliders landed on D-Day, rather than the bridge itself, with pale salmon-pink foliage against a dark blue sky with clouds
Colour infrared image of Ranville War Cemetery in Normandy, with rows of white grave stones in the foreground and the chuch in the background, set against with pale yellow-green foliage against a dark violet-blue sky
Colour infrared image of British Normandy Memorial at Ver-sur-Mer in Normandy, showing figures from the art installation of soldiers - black outlines set against pale salmon-pink foliage
Colour infrared image of gravestones at Highgate Cemetery in London, with white grass and foliage and orange sunlight on the gravestones and in the trees
Colour infrared image of a catacomb skylight at Highgate Cemetery in London, with white foliage with a spider, set against an intense blue sky
Abstract, colour infrared image of a gate at Highgate Cemetery in London, showing vertical metal bars and a stone pillar, rendered in green and violet tones
Colour infrared image of a white memorial cross with neckless at Highgate Cemetery in London, rendered in dark mustard yellow
Colour infrared image of a statuary with a cross at Highgate Cemetery in London, rendered in a pale gold with white foliage
Colour infrared image of a memorial cross at Highgate Cemetery in London, rendered with pale blue foliage
Colour infrared image of a memorial cross at Highgate Cemetery in London, rendered in pink with cyan-green foliage
Using Format