IR - a new toy!

Last week, when I was supposed to meet a friend for lunch, I discovered late that he couldn't make it. As a consequence I was left at my desk and in no time I had bought a second hand camera and arranged to have it converted to infra-red.  This doesn't mean that I can go out photographing foxes by night (!) - that requires an IR camera and an IR light source.  However it does enable us to see the infra red which is reflected by objects during the day. The most stunning thing is the amount of IR reflected by green plants - wherever there is grass, it looks as though there has been a sharp frost and trees seem snow-laden.  IR images are often viewed as monochrome, but colours (such as blue sky) may be rendered back into the image.  Some of the examples below show both a mono and colour rendition of the same image.

My new toy arrived yesterday, so naturally I've been out to play.