Richard Carter – Richard Carter

Lichen timelapse

A project to take photographs of the same lichen over many years.
When rocks take a walk

In which I follow the trail of an itinerant rock!
Corresponding with Sir David Attenborough

In which the great science communicator fails to resolve an important dispute about fish.
Book Review: ‘Vivian Maier Developed’ by Ann Marks

The unearthed biography of a lauded photographic nanny.
Book Review: ‘Landscapes’ by John Berger

An excellent essay collection on art and culture.
Read-later triage

How I filter my read-later bookmarks into notes, posts and newsletters.
frant (v., n.)

Oystercatchers are in a permanent state of frant.
Book Review: ‘Life Between the Tides’ by Adam Nicolson

In search of rockpools and other miracles.
Book Review: ‘Enough Said’ by Alan Bennett

Bennett’s fourth volume of diaries.
Book review: ‘On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects’ by Charles Darwin

Darwin answers his critics re. the evolution of complex adaptations.
Book Review: ‘The Edge of Silence’ by Neil Ansell

In search of the disappearing sounds of nature.
St Patrick’s Day

On St Patrick’s connection with North Wales, and the debunking of a famous biogeographical myth.