Kings Mill, smock windmill, Shipley, in infrared

I visited the recently rewilded Knepp estate earlier today. Consequently I found myself within 1500 metres or so of Shipley, the location of the infamous Kings Mill. Not to be confused with Kings Mill in Castle Donnington, some 200 km or so north-west of here, this King’s Mill (aka Vincent’s Mill) is a smock windmill constructed in 1879 in Shipley, West Sussex, England. This was also the building used in the BBC’s Jonathan Creek detective series.

It was a beautiful mild late afternoon, in spring, peaking about 16°C, with golden-hour light, big skies and very interesting cloud formations. Fortunately I remembered to pack my recently-converted full-spectrum Lumix DMC-GH2, and a 14-42mm Lumix lens c/w Fourth Eye variable 550-750 nanometre infrared-pass filter. So I decided to capture a few infrared snaps of the building and its immediate environs.

My kit

As with most of my IR work so far, I used a Fourth Eye variable infrared filter, screwed on the front of a bog-standard Lumix 14mm-42mm “kit lens”. Whilst this is not considered a great lens, it seems perfectly adequate, one might even say ideal, for near-infrared. This time, my variable infrared filter was set between 630nm and 760nm. The near-monochrome shots are the ones shot with the longer wavelength light.

Links

• Kings Mill Wikipedia page
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Mill,_Shipley
• Jonathan Creek Wikipedia page
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Creek
• Sussex Mills Group Kings Mill page
  https://www.sussexmillsgroup.org.uk/shipley2.htm