I first became interested in ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) photography as a student in scientific photography at the Harrow School of Photography in the UK in the 1970s. Over the ensuing years I occasionally dabbled with it, but never seriously, due to problems with darkroom issues and film costs.
I am fascinated by the natural world, and started looking at how flowers appear to insects in the early 1990s, using analogue film, UV filters and a fledgling version of Photoshop to combine visible light and UV images. That work culminated in an MSc thesis in 1994.
My aim in writing this book is to help rekindle interest in this fascinating area of photography, showing how it is possible to produce fascinating and scientifically useful ...
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