Award-winning photographer Barry Lewis has been picturing the weird and wonderful late-night Glastonbury experience for more than a decade
Weasels are stealthy and cunning creatures. They know the best way they can achieve what they want. In Sierra Leone, weasels in the forest live almost exclusively in the trees and rarely venture down to the forest floor where their lives might be in danger. Weasels quickly worked out that to move from tree to […]
Victorian botanist Anna Atkins brought nature to life with her striking, modern-looking cyanotypes of seaweed and algae
Tomcat opened the car door, leapt out, and did 50 press-ups on the pavement, just to get the stiffness out of his back and neck. Having completed these, he jumped over the garden gate and slammed his large hand against the black-painted front door of the house a few times. The birds stopped singing and […]
February 24th Island This island, a hundred miles from Guam, was named in honour of the birthday of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V who sponsored Ferdinand Magellan on his epic journey around the world between 1519 and 1522. Of course, Magellan didn’t make it all the way around the world as he was killed […]
“Can you shine your torch over there?” said Knowles after Adelaide Hills had finished her bandaging. Adelaide shone her torch in the direction he was pointing in – the hotel was about three hundred yards away. “I was inspecting a hut in the trees over there when I was hit,” said Knowles, “and that’s about […]
