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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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Plants & gardens, Plants in the news No Comments

‘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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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Photography, Exhibitions No Comments

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.

Brunel's Three Bridges - detail
The wall of the old Hanwell Asylum The wall of the old Hanwell Asylum - detail Footplate on canal lock Canal lock sleuce gate gears Lock detail - Hanwell Flight, Grand Union Canal

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Monday, January 12th, 2009 Photoblog, Where I live 1 Comment

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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Monday, January 12th, 2009 Gear No Comments

Testing my new Flickr integration

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Friday, December 12th, 2008 Photography, Website News No Comments

Test your colour perception

One for the designers and photographers out there, and perhaps requiring just that little bit too much time and concentration to be called ‘fun’, but still worth a go…

Test your colour perception with the FM 100 Hue Test

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Saturday, October 4th, 2008 Photography No Comments

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