Misty Mountain Ridge

I stopped to take a picture of this ridge that wasn't there when I drove by an hour before. It's really smoke from burning brush that someone is clearing that's trapped under an inversion, with warmer air on top making a kind of lid for the smoke beneath.

 

Johnston Hall, University of Guelph, Infrared, c. 1998

Johnston Hall, University of Guelph, c. 1998, Konica Infrared 750nm 35mm. Grass and leaves are light and sky is dark because it's infrared. 

 

Chinese restaurant or bar, c. 1993

The image reminds me of the bar scene in the Kubrick move The Shining. I think this was a Chinese restaurant in Toronto, maybe on Spadina, sometime around 1993. Ilford HP5+ film, developed after about 30 years. 

 

Your own infrared Jesus

♫ Your own infrared Jesus ♫ (With apologies to Depeche Mode)

This is another old film I just had developed at Boréalis Laboratoire Photo, in Montreal, a lab that still develops, scans and prints film. They did a good job, even though this film is more than 30 years old. It's Konica Infrared 750 nm, which had been stored at room temperature since it was taken, so having anything on it is surprising! Probably Mississauga, early 1990s. As I remember the guy didn't think he was Jesus but was just trying to spread his message. Note how the grass is white and the sky is dark, since the film is 'seeing' in a wavelength of light that is not visible to people. The focus point is different from visible light because it has a longer wavelength, so 'Jesus' is a little blurry.