New Book: Exploring Ultraviolet Photography

, ,

Book cover

A book has been recently published, which looks very useful for anybody with an interest in UV photography. It is brief, and explanations clear, but thorough about technical details. Lot of good practical advice is provided, and in the final chapter examples of different applications of UV photography are given. I haven’t yet finished reading it, but what I have read I have liked. I proper review will be published in the Bulletin.

Prutchi, David (2017) Exploring Ultraviolet Photography: Bee Vision, Forensic Imaging, and Other Near-Ultraviolet Adventures with Your DSLR. Buffalo, N.Y.: Amherst Media, Inc. 127 pages. ISBN13 9781682031247.

Price: 31,70 € at Book Depository and 37.95 USD (today at 24.11 USD) at Amazon US.

Cover image

And a booklet from 70 years ago from Kodak, costing originally 0.25 USD. Some interesting examples of the use of UV photography, and UV-excited fluorescence images are shown.

Kodak (1947) Kodak Data Book on Infrared and Ultraviolet Photography. 2nd edition. Rochester, N.Y.: Eastman Kodak Co. 40 pages.

Available at the Internet Archive.

Scientists Discover First Fluorescent Frog | The Scientist Magazine®

The polka dot tree frog (Hypsiboas punctatus) glows under a blacklight, due to the presence of three fluorescent molecules in its lymph tissue and skin.

Source: Scientists Discover First Fluorescent Frog | The Scientist Magazine®

These are not plants, but still I know some UV4Plants members will find this post and the original PNAS article interesting. I am suitably posting this from Buenos Aires.

UV-B Meetings 2017

, , , ,

Pisa (2016) photo: (c) Tomás Aphalo

We are pleased to inform UV4Plants members about two conference sessions focused on UV-B research. These sessions have been organized jointly with the European Society for Photobiology (ESP) and will be part of the ESP Congress in Pisa in September 2017. To help UV4Plants members attend we have agreed a reduced registration fee with ESP and are also offering several bursaries.

There are also other plant and non-plant photobiology symposia in the ESP Congress that may be of interest (see http://pisa2017.photobiology.eu).

Please see UV meetings announcement and programme as a PDF file.

Registration and fees

UV4Plants members attending on 5 and 6 September: 200 Euro; student members 125 Euro (non-members 255 Euro)
UV4Plants members attending the 6 September meeting only: 150 Euro; student members 75 Euro (non-members 205 Euro)
Students can attend the full ESP congress for 200 Euro (for details see website http://pisa2017.photobiology.eu)
Registration is via the ESP Congress website (http://pisa2017.photobiology.eu).

Abstract Submission deadline: 25 May
Early registration deadline: 30 June

UV4Plants Bursaries

UV4Plants is offering up to 4 bursaries of 200 Euro to early stage researchers (PhD students and postdocs) who will attend both the Symposium and Satellite Meeting and give an oral or poster presentation at one of these sessions. Applicants must be UV4Plants members. Those who receive funding to attend the meeting from ESP will not be eligible. Bursary holders will be expected to write a short article about their attendance at the conference for the Bulletin and spend time (max 1 hour) helping at the UV4Plants stall. Applications, including the submitted abstract and a statement (max 200 words) explaining why the applicant merits award of the bursary should be sent to secretary@uv4plants.org by 25 May.