Black and White Aerial Photo

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This is an example of a Black and White Aerial photo. This is similar to the infrared photo, but this style of photography captures the same wavelengths the human eye does. Contrast between land and water is more difficult to see, as well as differences between vegetation. Deductively thinking you can see that there is a river flowing through the city of Lawrence, MA, but it could very easily be a very wide and deformed slab of asphalt. Differentiating features cannot be observed as easily in black and white aerial photography.