photography – Richard Carter

A brace of raptors

Two close-encounters with murderous birds in as many days.

Words and images from an inspirational artist.

Demonstration of the mechanics of facial expression. Duchenne and an assistant ‘faradise’ the mimetic muscles of ‘the Old Man’. (Source: Wikipedia)

On Charles Darwin’s use of photography in his book about human and animal emotions.

My twelfth annual video slideshow.

Fabulous birds · Rebecca Solnit · Webb Space Telescope · Stonehenge · book reviews · cutting some crap · and more…

More than just gannets…

In nature, individuals aren’t just in competition with the elements or other species.

Fact and fiction are discrete things, not parts of a continuum.

My eleventh annual video slideshow.

Snowy Hebden Bridge, and a non-snowy owl.

There’s been snow on the ground since before Christmas, and throughout the first week of the year.