I’m a writer and photographer based in Hebden Bridge in the West Yorkshire Pennines.
My interests include the natural world, the British countryside, science in general, and Charles Darwin in particular. I combined these interests in my first book, On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk.
I’m currently working on a book about looking at the world Through Darwin’s Eyes.
Recent posts
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Lichen timelapse
A project to take photographs of the same lichen over many years.
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Science calls it, yet again
Yet another correctly forecast solar eclipse.
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Fountain pen mod
Plastic fountain pen versus power-tool: what could possibly go wrong?
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Streak!
I’m damned if I’m going to have some stupid app make me fret about missing a day and going all the way back to zero!
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Heavenly conjunction
Images of the moon, past and present.
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On the Rocks, April 2026
Some unexpected thrills sitting on what remains of my favourite Anglesey rock.
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Lichen timelapse
A project to take photographs of the same lichen over many years.
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Science calls it, yet again
Yet another correctly forecast solar eclipse.
-
Fountain pen mod
Plastic fountain pen versus power-tool: what could possibly go wrong?
-
Streak!
I’m damned if I’m going to have some stupid app make me fret about missing a day and going all the way back to zero!
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Heavenly conjunction
Images of the moon, past and present.
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On the Rocks, April 2026
Some unexpected thrills sitting on what remains of my favourite Anglesey rock.
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Latest newsletters
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Rich Text newsletter No. 37: ‘These people knew mammoths!’
Ice age art • Robert Macfarlane • Kathleen Jamie • medieval poems • lichen • Barbarian Conspiracy • the Shipping Forecast • escaping the entropy • and more…
- Darwin the botanist • UNESCO recognition • Darwin’s address book • Charles Lyell • Leonard Jenyns • punctuated equilibria • what the heck are chins for? • and lots more…
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On the Moor: science, history and nature on a country walk
This is a lovely book. I really enjoyed it—partly, I suspect, because I have a similar sense of humour to that of the author and also because I am generally curious about life. […] The author is good at explanations. I like that. Eclectic—that’s what this book is. And rambling—in a good way (after all, these are walks). I liked it. I hope Richard Carter is writing another volume of his thoughts. I’ll buy it.
—Mark Avery, author and former director of conservation at the RSPB, Sunday Book Review
