Wildlife Photographer of the Year
p. The Guardian had a feature on the “Wildlife Photographer of the Year(Natural History Museum site for the competition)”:http://www.nhm.ac.uk/wildphoto competition, and there are some incredibly stunning photographs. I think that my favourite is the winner in the ‘Animal Behaviour: Birds’ category—a beautifully delicate but dramatic photo of a barn owl from the perspective of a vole taken by Nick Oliver. I know that I’m a bit biased towards birds, but I also love the “portrait of a blue-footed booby”:http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wildwin/2003/ad_picnumb.dsml?catdescrip2=ap&posdescrip2=hc&picnumb=ss08 by Werner Bollmann. I’m just speechless at the wonderful composition and the blend of soft browns and the steely blue of the bird’s beak. This is the kind of thing I aspire to—in my dreams.
p. Update: I’ve fixed the link to the blue-footed booby so that it points to the correct page. Sorry about that. p. Update 2: Gah. There’s something weird about the URL, and I can’t get one to point to the correct page. Follow the link above, and the booby is the last thumbnail on the right.
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Fabulous pictures - your link to the booby actually takes you to another picture, but who cares, they are all stunning, even the children's section is wonderful. Thank you.----- Oooh! Booby pictures!
(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
by bitweever @ 17/10/2003 12:10 pm • Permalink •
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ThoughtBadger: As you've probably seen, I tried to fix it, but it seems to be their URL which is broken.
bitweever: [rolls eyes] Tsk. Somone was bound to do it, and I suppose I was asking for trouble. Still, it could have been blue tits.
by bsag @ 17/10/2003 6:11 pm • Permalink •
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right, i'm off to thailand to adopt a dusky langur -- they're so cute!
regarding the link problems: not something to do with you replacing each & with & is it? try it using & instead. [i need to lie down after marking up this comment!]
by dvd @ 17/10/2003 8:11 pm • Permalink •
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dvd: I suspect that it is the problem -- using Textile, ampersands get escaped automatically, but it's somewhat over enthusiastic. I just tried to fix it, but I'd have to reformat the whole entry, which I'm too lazy to do. Bah.
by bsag @ 18/10/2003 6:10 pm • Permalink •
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