Another Place is a collection of 100 cast iron figurative sculptures by artist Antony Gormley that was installed at Crosby Beach, England in the mid-2000s. The giant figures each weigh upward of 1,400 lbs (650 kg) and are spread across an area of beach nearly two miles long. Photographer Paul Sutton has spent the last few months capturing these wonderful images of the works.

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Until the early 20th century, infrared photography was not possible because silver halide emulsions are not sensitive to longer wavelengths than that of blue light (and to a lesser extent, green light) without the addition of a dye to act as a color sensitizer. Wood, who discovered the unusual effects that now bear his name. The RPS co-ordinated events to celebrate the centenary of this event in 2010. The first infrared photographs (as distinct from spectrographs) to be published appeared in the February 1910 edition of The Century Magazine and in the October 1910 edition of the Royal Photographic Society Journal to illustrate papers by Robert W. Wood's photographs were taken on experimental film that required very long exposures; thus, most of his work focused on landscapes. A further set of infrared landscapes taken by Wood in Italy in 1911 used plates provided for him by CEK Mees at Wratten & Wainwright. Mees also took a few infrared photographs in Portugal in 1910, which are now in the Kodak archives. Infrared-sensitive photographic plates were developed in the United States during World War I for spectroscopic analysis, and infrared sensitizing dyes were investigated for improved haze penetration in aerial photography. After 1930, new emulsions from Kodak and other manufacturers became useful to infrared astronomy. 

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Have you ever glimpsed a glasswinged butterfly (Greta oto)? You might think that this animal is a figment of one's fantasy, possibly a photo shopped composite shot of a butterfly blending into a serene setting, but the truth is that it exists! The aptly entitled bug is a brush-footed (or four-footed) butterfly whose wings emerge to be made of glass, though they're not. The tissue inside their wings need the usually colorful pigments discovered in other butterflies; thus, they have a glassy, transparent look.
Discovered mainly in centered America (Mexico through Panama), the glasswinged butterfly's title in Spanish is Espejitos which translates as little reflectors. In certain lights, the translucent wing parts have a glossy, nearly reflective value to them that makes their Spanish name effectively unquestionable. if they're glimpsed as glass or mirrors, though, there's certain thing absolutely fascinating about the way these butterflies' wings offer a surreal look at the environment around the bug. It's like they're minute ornaments conceived to draw the eye to the picturesque apply of nature.

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That pretty much summarizes my reactions while looking at these unbelievable macro shots of arachnids photographed by Nicky Bay who inhabits and works in Singapore. The boundless biodiversity found on the country’s 64 islands includes a huge array of insects and arachnids, numerous of which Bay has painstakingly documented up close with his macro photography and released on his blog and Flickr account. 

Regardless of being creepy crawly arachnids, it’s unrealistic to deny the endless creativity engaged by evolution to conceive such astonishing animals. It’s hard to believe these lifeforms came from the identical planet let solely the identical country. For instance the reflector Spider has an abdomen of reflective panels that glitter like a disco ball, or the diverse colors of Ladybird imitate arachnids that are nearly indistinguishable from the insects they are camouflaged to gaze like. But there’s furthermore the more frightening Two-Tailed Spider or the Bird Dung Spider that would have me scrambling for a frying pot and a quart of venom before I would even consider picking up a camera.

Nadia Drake over at Wired put simultaneously an informative gallery of Bay’s work along with a bit more detail than you’ll find here. All images overhead courtesy the photographer.

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