photography – Richard Carter

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

LRB letter: ‘The reaction economy’

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.

My tenth annual video slideshow.

More International Space Station photography.