Transylvania, IR and books

["joe b." <joe.b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <9607162248.AC05450@xxxxxxxxxx>, Willem-Jan Markerink
<w.j.markerink@xxxxx> writes
>> I telephoned the publishers of Joseph Paduano's book 'The Art of Infrared
>> Photography'  (Amherst Media +1 716 874 4450) to ask if the book was still
>> available so I could say something about it on the web site.  They say that
>> it is currently out of print but that a new, revised, bigger, better (etc)
>> edition will be published in the Fall (that's Autumn to us Brits).
>> However, they also publish:

I think you may still be able to get this book from the UK distributors,
Newpro (whose number & address currently elude me) as I did recently. Or
from Classic Collection Photo Books in London.

>> Infrared Nude Photography - Joseph Paduano - ISBN 0-936-262-109 - $19.95
>> The Infrared Handbook - Laurie White - ISBN 0-936-262-389 - $24.95
>> 
>> Are there any other books in this territory or have these people cornered
>> the market?  I will try to get copies and review them.

That's all that is available in the UK, as far as I have been able to
establish. Except that there was a book of IR pics of ghost-haunted
English ruins and such called "Phantoms of The Isles" (seriously spooky
stuff) and the same guy did another book or so, all shot on a 24mm lens
on a Nikkormat on Kodak IR B&W as I recall- I think his name was Simon
Marsden, and I recall that the book was stocked by the London Nikon
specialist Gray's of Westminster, who would be the best place to try.

I read an interview with him about photographing (on IR of course) in
Transylvania, and visiting/photographing the grave of Vlad the Impaler
(this, for those who may not know, is the Mediaeval ruler who had many,
many of his subjects and enemies impaled on spikes, and is thought by
some to be the person that inspired the character of Dracula), and there
was a very good description of what that felt like that will be forever
etched in my memory. The grave was on an island and there was nothing
there but chickens and goats but, he said, the "atmosphere was totally
stifling" (I wonder exactly what that means...) and he could hardly wait
to get out of there. As many seasoned infrared photographers know, the
ability to hang around graves in abandoned cemeteries is not always
something to take for granted!
-- 
joe b.