Mr. Fair takes his photographs from airplanes, and occasionally helicopters, often capturing sights deliberately hidden from public view.
Planting ingeniously camouflaged, state-of-the-art equipment in and around their target, they capture sights and sounds of uncommon beauty and quiet revelation: a group of fishermen reminiscing about blue-whale pods as dense as "a clump of bamboo" and a ghostly, thermal handprint clinging to a gatepost like arcane spoor.
But no one had taken photographs of Egypt, photography being just a decade old, and in Du Camp you can see a new medium used to capture sights afresh -- an opportunity seized to show everybody back home what they knew only from artists' and archaeologists' more or less fanciful drawings, paintings and prints.
You can join the worldwide community of photographers capturing sights from Thailand to Transylvania in the images below.
Their sensors will capture sight, sound and motion and transmit the information to the Internet quickly and affordably.
Human memory researchers have identified so called "slave systems" in our short-term memory, components of the mind which capture sights and sounds, keeping them alive for a short time while we focus on them.
The goal of my project is to travel the world capturing sights, sounds, voices and chords, and use them to compose and shoot a track and video for each major culture of the world.
But as well as giving the films an aesthetic, the technique also helps Hough capture sights that usually go unseen by the human eye, exploring the microscopic formations and events that happen in the natural world.
I wished time could be held still so I could be certain I had fully captured every sight.
Biting jokes average about two a minute in "Great Whales" -- a few of them verbal, but more captured in sight and most of them expressed in music.
