After the jump: AZPM’s Heather Gray reports on Tucson photographer Michael McNulty’s study of how the human eye sees color:
From behind the lens of his camera, Michael McNulty became curious about the rich colors of the desert, so he began to research the properties of light, and how the human eye sees color.
“One way to define light is that it’s the part of the electromagnetic spectrum we can see,” McNulty said. “But that’s a really tiny, tiny portion of the whole electromagnetic spectrum.”
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“We don’t necessarily think we have trouble looking at red and blue, but if you try to look at different shades of red and blue, you’re going to find that you cannot distinguish them as well as you can green,” McNulty said.
McNulty shares his stories of red, green blue in this segment of AZ Illustrated Science. He is working on a book based on his research about the colors of light.
[AZPM]
This article appears in Oct 17-23, 2013.
I appreciate Michael Mc Nulty’s photography and keen eye, and share the same wonders and appreciation he speaks of regarding the electromagnetic spectrum. We only wish he would have spoke with that voice when he served as an attorney at Lewis and Roca for Metro Water District in Tucson to prevent the horrible and preventable retaliation that came to an innocent man while Mr. McNulty sat quietly and allowed it to continue one public August board meeting in 2012. While some shades of red and blue are difficult to distinguish, acts of negligence and injustice are not.