Gallery: the invisible spectrum

A selection of images captured using a variety of different infrared filters and processing techniques

  • Trafalgar Square tourists

    Trafalgar Square tourists

    Tourists taking holiday snaps in Trafalgar Square, in central London. An infrared photo created with a full-spectrum camera and filters (B+W KB-20, Yellow) to simulate…

  • St George’s, Portland

    St George’s, Portland

    This is St George’s church, on the island of Portland, on the English south coast. This was built in the mid-18th century to replace an…

  • Face of Portland stone

    Face of Portland stone

    This is an extraordinary sculpture. The face is maybe 2.5m high, and it is carved out of a block of Portland stone that has probably…

  • Pier Amusements

    Pier Amusements

    Worthing Pier at sunset, with the sun barely hanging on at the horizon. The pier was opened in 1862, and the amusements arcade that’s in…

  • Engineers in Carnaby Street

    Engineers in Carnaby Street

    Broadband engineers running new fibre-optic cable in Carnaby Street, in London’s West End. Fellow photographer Frode Hegland is chatting with them. Shot with a 550nm…

  • One-Island Pond

    One-Island Pond

    One-Island Pond in Mitcham Common is a haven for wildlife. It is nestled in a large group of trees and bushes within a section of…

  • Working from home?

    Working from home?

    Beach huts in Brighton. Working from home is pretty normal these days, but the views from here beat most!

  • Cobbled alley

    Cobbled alley

    Cobbles used to be the main way streets were paved, an approach to road construction that arrived in Britain with the Romans. The results were…

  • Street mural portrait

    Street mural portrait

    Candid portrait of a man relaxing in front of a street mural, in Tooting, South London. I was taking photos nearby and he called out…

  • Fruit and veg stall

    Fruit and veg stall

    Buying fruit and vegetables from a stall in Tooting Market, in South London

  • Street poster seller

    Street poster seller

    A poster seller in the street in Tooting Broadway, in London. Posters are taped up on the shuttered front of a Wilko store that is…

  • Streatham Common

    Streatham Common

    Streatham Common is a large green space in South London. Shot using a 742nm IR filter for black & white work.

  • Worthing Pier

    Worthing Pier

    A sunny afternoon on Worthing Pier, late summer 2025. The pier was built in 1862, making it well over a century and a half old,…