Catching The Rain

A ‘lost forest’ - Kew’s discovery in Mozambique, thanks to Google Earth!

Kew botanist Jonathan Timberlake recording vegetation on the steep slopes of Mount Mabu. Photo: Tom Timberlake

There’s a nice audio slideshow, with some stunning pictures, now available on the BBC site - Audio slideshow: Discovering a ‘lost forest’.

It’s covered in more depth on the Kew site - “Google Earth helps Kew put ‘lost forest’ of Mount Mabu on the conservation map”

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Kew on Newsnight - Obama’s first 100 days: Environment

Always nice to see Kew being featured on high profile programmes like newsnight, and especially on such a prominent news story (overly so if you ask me, but that’s not important here!).

I particularly like the montage of a giant George Bush in the temperate House….

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | Obama’s first 100 days: Environment.

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‘We’re All Gonna Die - 100 meters of existence’

Takes a little while to load, but well worth it. I can’t put my finger on what it is, but this image has that certain something.

‘We’re All Gonna Die - 100 meters of existence’.

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A winter’s walk along the canal

I had to go to Screwfix to get some DIY bits, and the most direct route is along the tow-path of the Grand Union Canal. Needless to say I took the camera, and it took me a little longer than expected.

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Tags: Photoblog, canal, diy, grand union

Image stabilisation - chicken style

Modern camera lenses (and some cameras) have image stabilisation built in, and I’ve often wondered how they do it. But how do they fit the chicken inside?

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Tags: Photography, chicken