“For a long time, I have felt drawn to wild and magical places, from the deserts to the snow-capped mountains of the Chinese landscape,” the photographer Jonas Daley tells me. “I am curious about the natural world, particularly the kinds of landscapes that feel unknown or mysterious in some way.
Since the dawn of space exploration, mankind has been dreaming of the worlds that could possibly be out there, just waiting to be discovered. Would they look anything like ours? Could they be our home away from home, as we evolve into a spacefaring race in the distant future? We've often turned to art, guided by our limitless imagination, to answer these questions of science.
"If you understand how to shoot slide film, Aerochrome is no different," Doug Golupski said on the common misconception that it's a fragile film requires a special treatment. It is indeed a special infrared film, as his stunning results and many before him show us.
With the advent of drone photography came greater accessibility to the art (and technicality) of aerial photography, and it's been truly amazing to see what photographers have been creating with it.