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Polaroid
The Polaroid is now a museum piece. There is much pleasure in taking a polaroid. Each shot is treated as special, there is the mechanical sound and feel of the paper ejecting, the waiting and watching and the slow alchemical change on the surface of the paper. I wonder if someone will make a digitalContinue reading “Polaroid”
The Petrifying Well
This is the petrifying well of Matlock Bath. Matlock Bath is a small spa town which was fashionable in the Victorian Era for hydrotherapy, and now its amusement arcades, fish and chip shops and illuminations make it known as a seaside town without the sea and even the Alps of the Peak District. The petrifyingContinue reading “The Petrifying Well”
Giant Crystals
I saw this news story on the BBC website. Hard-to-get footage of 10 metre long crystals in Mexico was shot by a BBC crew for a series called “How the Earth Made Us”. I like the way these giant crystals make the scientists look like models from a train set or characters from an unconvincingContinue reading “Giant Crystals”
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Neanderthal cosmetics
50 000 year old make up has been discovered by archeaologists in South Eastern Spain. Most surprisingly, it is thought that the make up was used by Neanderthals. The team has uncovered a thorny oyster shell containing the remnants of pigments. The pigments, made of ground minerals and mixed or stored in the shell palettes,Continue reading “Neanderthal cosmetics”
A frosty country
The land looks like it has had a dusting of icing sugar in this satellite photograph of Britain during the January cold snap.
Salt queues
Snow covered roads mean there are queues for salt at the salt mines.
Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
Oscar nominated film by John Feeny 1963 Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
The photographs of Inge Morath
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