Even boring airports look somewhat interesting in infrard.
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Black Howler Monkey
Not all black howler monkeys are black.
Barasingha
Barasingha pondering how human languages can morph, twist, and adapt for thousands of years only to suddenly achieve their perfect and correct form at the exact moment you graduate high school.
Fields
Midwestern fields look different in infrared
Babirusa
Baby babirusa browsing beneath birch bark and branches for bites of bugs.
American Alligator
This photo is particularly impressive when embiggened … so you may want to do that.
Graveyard
A cemetery I saw on my way to land in New York City, in infrared.
Black Bear
Black bear cosplaying a grizzly … badly.
African Wild Dog
Go ahead. Try to count the puppies.
Statue of Liberty
The statue of liberty, as seen from the air, in infrared.
Bunnies
Though they passed the first screen test, they failed at the howling.
Painting
On some people, though, orange looks good.
Digging
A while ago, I complained about photos of corn. This is an example of why.
At Ag Day in July, they set out these bins of seeds for kids to play in as if they were a sandbox. It was incredibly popular with the kids, so I took a lot of photos. What I didn’t realize at the time was that full sun reflecting off the corn would drastically change the highlights on people’s faces. In short, turning everyone bright orange. You’d think they’d be yellowed, but I guess the blood in the skin makes things orange.
Since I’m colour-blind, I may have mis-corrected, but what I found that worked was to process the photo like normal, then create an adjustment mask and hand-paint all the areas that were overly-highlighted (highlit?) and reduce the amount of orange in that mask. That results in a photo like this, where there’s a decent amount of yellow reflecting off the corn, but the people don’t look like painted monsters.
Art
The chaulk artist at the zoo has a different theory as to what is causing all those sinkholes in Siberia.
Turkey
Did you know that turkeys use their tongue when they make their “gobble gobble gobble” noise?
Birds
Birds are messy.
Squirrel
Squirrel contemplating launching a kickstarter to create an A.I. to generate endless updates detailing invented processes going on behind the scenes and apologizing for shipping delays.
Greater Bushbaby
The bushbabies are members of the strepsirrhines, which is a suborder of the primates known to have wet noses (and other things). Strepsirrhines apparently split off from the haplorhine primates between 55 and 90 million years ago, at a time that was called “the primate radiation”.
Interestingly, the primate radiation is the only known form of radiation to have given special powers to real life humans but not comic book characters.
Pallas Cat
Because she cares about the future generation, this pallas cat wants you to know that I have changed the configuration of my websites so visitor data is only retained for one day.
Meerkat
It cost me a $90 trip charge, but the plumber eventually found the blockage.