There are several mini-exhibits available. They are described in greater detail below but briefly they are: 1. High Speed, Scientific and Technical photographs, 2. Phoenix Portraits, 3. Phoenix Process based Peripheral Portraits, 4. Phoenix Process Figure Studies, 5. Panoramic Photographs, 6. Peripheral and other strip photographs, 7. Additional high speed and stroboscopic photographs and 8. More scientific and technical photographs 9. Just pictures 10. Caique parrots 11. Some Water Splashes 12. Nimslo Panoramics and more

Exhibit 1: High Speed, Technical and Flow Visualization Photographs
This set of photographs includes images of a bullet's impact on rubber bands and a lime, Schlieren photographs of warm air rising from candles and a bullet's shock waves in air, a peripheral self-portrait and a photograph made as the Endeavour Shuttle was taking off. This photograph was made during a field trip I took with my students to the Kennedy Space Center in March 1995. You'll also see wasps flying, Comet Hyakutake, a slit-scan special effect photograph and several more "unlikely" images made with unusual techniques or processes associated mostly with scientific and technical photography.

Exhibit 2: Portraits with Phoenix Process
These are six black and white photographs, 5 of which are Phoenix Process derivations. Photograph Number 5, a Phoenix version, was made from the Polaroid 667 paper negative that produced the "standard" Polaroid print numbered 6.

Exhibit 3: Phoenix Process based Peripheral Portraits
This small exhibit of peripheral portraits is a small sample of thousands of peripheral portraits I have made of "volunteers" at trade-shows, conferences, demonstrations, fairs and many other events where I demonstrated how 360 degree photographs can be made using a simple Polaroid camera slightly modified to operate as a strip camera. The film used is Polaroid Type 667 and the paper negatives are later further elaborated with Polaroid Polagraph 35mm instant film prior to printing onto conventional gelatin silver photographic materials. You can read "all" about the Phoenix Process by following the link given below.

Exhibit 4:Phoenix Process based Figure Studies
Once I had started to make Phoenix Process portraits it became obvious that the technique, often showing significant levels of the Sabattier effect, Mackie lines and a considerable (but interesting) grain pattern, could also be applied to more traditional subject matter. In this small exhibit you will hopefully appreciate the process's strengths as demonstrated with a series of figure studies. You can read "all" about the Phoenix Process by choosing its title.

Exhibit 5: More Panoramic, Peripheral, Linear and Circular Panoramic Photographs
A major interest of mine over the years has been the development of improvised "strip" cameras and associated equipment and the application of this technology for various purposes, both technical and scientific as well as aesthetic. In this small sample you'll see a wide range of traditional and novel applications for this mostly unknown technique.

Exhibit 6: Vibrations visualized, Rainbow Spectral Dispersion, Visual Illusion, and more Peripheral Portraits and other Strip Camera Photographs.

Exhibit 7: Additional high speed and stroboscopic photographs. Icluding a supersonic bullet in color schlieren beam, .22 cal bullet impact on lemon, Barnswallows returning to nest and chicks, milk drop splash, and several stroboscopic motion analysis photographs, etc.

Exhibit 8: More scientific and technical photographs including ultraviolet photographs of several flowers, high speed sequence of bullet smashing through a lemon, reflection schlieren images of convecting chloroform, liquid crystal thermographs and stroboscopic motion photos of children and dancers, bouncing tennis and ping-pong balls as well as tennis ball impact on raquet, etc...

Exhibit 9: OK, I decided to also include some photographs that can be described simply as "Pretty Pictures in Nature". Landscapes, flowers, people, some splashes, snow covered landscapes, animals, Canada geese and chicks, etc. In short, anything that I considered a "neat" (whatever _that_ means!) image.

Exhibit 10: More technical and scientific photographs. Microscopy, high speed recording of air bubbles, polarization, stroboscopic coin toss or flip, etc.

The Rising Air Bubbles Page: is a collection of photographs of air bubbles rising through various liquids such as hand soap, shampoo, and water.

High Speed and Technical Photographs: This is actually a "traveling" collection of photographs available for exhibition. They are ink-jet prints in frames (16x20 Nielsen behind plexiglass) and there are about 25 of them. While no exhibition fee is required shipping and insurance expenses must be covered by exhibitor. Contact me at andpph@rit.edu to arrange for loan.

Shotgun Firing and Muzzle Blast: This is a series of photographs of the discharge of a 20 gauge shotgun showing the muzzle blast and the separation of the pellets from the wad, or sabot, as its petals open up allowing the pellets to fly free. Each photograph is a different discharge of the shotgun with the delay adjusted slightly to make the picture earlier or later in the process.

Spectral Rainbow: This is a series of photographs of a spectrum, or rainbow, of colors made up by the passage of a beam of white light through a prism. The various wavelengths making up the white beam are refracted to a different degree depending on the wavelength and this produces the rainbow of colors which when all mixed together give us the sensation of "white".

Exhibit of Caique Parrot Photographs photographed under standard tungsten illumination and also showing the fluorescence effect when illuminated by Ultraviolet and recording the fluorescing colors through a Wratten 2E filter and the finally the reflectance of Ultraviolet when photographing the reflectance of this invisible radiation from their plumeage through a Wratten 18A filter.

More Splashes! Here you will find a compilation of links to many of my photographs of water splashes. They concentrate on the after effects of the impact of a drop of water on a shallow layer of the same liquid. This is a recoil or rebound effect of the surface responding to the sudden disturbance caused by a drop of water hitting the surface. The recoil column of water rises to surprising elevations above the surface and then due to surface tension effects it breaks up into droplets that fall back into the host liquid under the pull of gravity.

Panoramics and more At one time I modified a Nimslo camera by removing the septums and installing a mount for a 75mm Yashinon lens from a 21/4 Yashika camera. The resulting photographs have an aspect ratio of about 1:3 and are representative of a "poor man's" instantaneous panoramic camera. In this exhibit you will also find some strip panormaic photos also made with a home-made rotating panoramic camera.

While the first, seventh and eighth exhibits are dedicated primarily to high-speed, stroboscopic, schlieren and scientific applications, the photographs in exhibits 2 through 6 include images made with improvised linear and circular strip cameras applied to panoramic and other purposes as well as my weird "Phoenix" process. You can read more about all these themes and about the Phoenix process and about how panoramic and peripheral cameras work and how they are made by looking in the ARTICLES file. If you'd like to see hard copies of these articles please request them from me by sending an e-mail request to my address given below.