This is my latest submission to the UPP circle I belong to.
It is a monochrome image of a couple of rusted, discarded wheels resting under the trees in the centre of a meadow in the English Lake District. It was recorded on infrared film, giving its characteristic bright tones and dreamy feel to the foliage and grasses. The film I used is no longer made, in common with many of the less mainstream films once available.
Infrared photography is hard to do with a normal digital DSLR, requiring extremely long exposure times in even in bright sunlight, but I have recently found a company that can convert some DSLRs for infrared photography with much more reasonable exposures, and have sent my ‘spare’ body to them for conversion. I’m looking forward to getting it back (in a month or so’s time) and seeing what I can do with it …
