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Colour: The Spectrum of ScienceSeries 1In photos: Living Colour

Some of the team's pictures from the filming of the series.

  • Helen observes sunset from Dante’s View, overlooking Death Valley, California
  • Eye-to-eye with Sasha the eagle, a bird that filters out UV to maintain extremely sharp vision
  • Stacks of gold bars. Each weighs 1 kilogram and is composed of 99.99% pure gold
  • Helen stands in front of NASA’s SOFIA observatory – a flying infrared telescope
  • The sun begins to rise from the window of SOFIA, NASA’s flying infrared telescope
  • Helen holds a lump of blue lapis lazuli in the hills of Southern California
  • Painting with ultramarine – the brilliant blue pigment extracted from lapis lazuli
  • Helen wearing the dress that caused an internet sensation
  • A group of people who exhibit a range of different skin colours
  • A fragile piece of salt from the salt flats of Death Valley, California
  • The production team filming from Dante’s View, overlooking Death Valley, California
  • The road running along the bottom of Death Valley, California
  • Helen makes iron oxide at Clearwater Caves in the Forest Of Dean
  • The visible spectrum captured by water droplets in mid-air
  • Helen holds a one-kilogram bar of 99.99% pure gold
  • Brent Shock takes a break from gold prospecting near Jamestown, California
  • Helen with RHS Professor Ron Douglas discussing the UV eyesight of bees
  • Helen with Dr Jo Setchell, an anthropologist from Durham University

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