Learning new things is always enjoyable to me, especially when it is learning about things that human biology is supposed to limit us from knowing, seeing things that our eyes are not made to see. It is a reminder that there is so much more out there than we could possibly know, and that even science has its limitations in revealing those things to us.
Hope your summer is enjoyable!
So I bought another new camera...an infrared camera. Infrared light is not visible to the human eye, but it operates just as all light does, reflecting off of whatever objects it hits. So with a specially modified camera you can take photos which capture that reflection just like regular photographs, and translate them (a process I have yet to learn about) into the visible spectrum so that they can be seen.
Technically what I have is a "near-infrared" camera, meaning it takes photographs of the portion of the infrared spectrum just barely outside the visible light spectrum. Farther out on the IR spectrum you get thermal imaging infrared, but closer to the visible light spectrum you get images that are visually closer to what we can see.
I am of course totally brand new to this, and have much to learn, but am enjoying both the challenge and the process very much. And I do like reinforcing the concept that there are things which exist in reality which are outside the ability of our senses to perceive. Because as much as we would like it to be, life is not black and white. It is not just color either. It is all that and much, much more.
