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.
‘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.
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.
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?
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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News from Wakehurst Place
- Kew today - oriental paperbush 11 March 2010
- Kew today - ornamental quince 11 March 2010
- Establishing a common classification with APG III 5 March 2010
- Kew today - Cornelian cherry 3 March 2010
- Kew’s GIS Unit releases interactive global map of plant family and genera data 3 March 2010
- Kew's Premier Friends get on course for savings 2 March 2010
- Kew Today - enjoy the beautiful scent of the sweet box 23 February 2010
- Kew today - hay-scented orchid 17 February 2010
- Working together for a sustainable snowdrop trade 15 February 2010
- Independent review of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew published 10 February 2010













































