View from Portsdown Hill’ by William Daniell, 1824. This view looks across an open vista of creeks and islnds before the expansion of 19th century development. In the mid-distance is Porchester Castle with the Solent and the Isle of Wight beyond. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Portsmouth)

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A beautiful book out this month takes readers on a mosquito-free tour through the tropical rainforest, which, as E O Wilson reminds us in the foreword, is rapidly disappearing.

Tropical rainforest covers an area roughly equal to the US, and human activity is destroying an area equivalent to South Carolina each year - that’s a football […]

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Artists are lighting up London’s South Bank with 1200 wind-powered lights as part of a digital arts festival.

The Aeolian tower - which means moved by the wind - is a 15m steel structure located next to Waterloo Bridge.
The tower is covered with hundreds of tiny wind-powered LEDs. Each one made of a plastic turbine, controlling […]

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After some months of saving my pennies, I blew them this week on a Nikon D700. Remember our post about buying old, full frame lenses and using them on your small-sensor DSLR? There was a reason for it — those cheap old lenses will last you until you move up to full-frame.

There are plenty of […]

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The European Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest is run annually by the GDT (Gesellschaft Deutscher Tierfotografen) in Germany.

Cayman under the stars by William and Matthew Burrard-Lucas, Great Britain. Runner up in the Other Animals category
The winner of this year’s competition is David Maitland from Great Britain with his disturbing photograph of bushmeat being prepared […]

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Kodak’s second foray into video is way more satisfying than the MC3, its first.

Kodak Zi6
A fraction bigger but more accomplished than its diminutive Flip Mino competitor, the handheld Zi6 captures HD 720p video at 30 and 60 fps, YouTube-ready VGA and still shots. Surprisingly close focus takes you a pore-revealing two inches from your subject. […]

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The super-honcho of DSLRs at 21.1 megapixels, this baby rivals monstrously pricier medium-format digitals in resolution and pummels them with its portability and ease of use.

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
Dual Digic III processors handle the massive load of data collected by the full-frame CMOS sensor, and the resulting images make stunning large prints. The Mark III’s […]

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Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of serving as one of several judges for the Nikon Small World contest. Our task was to sit in a dimly lit room and try to rank the hundreds of entries—images taken by professional and amateur scientists around the world using visible-light microscopes.

Some were easy: The rules of […]

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Images like the one on the right were submitted to the 10th International Digital Print Exhibition, organised by Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI).

Moth Generator by Christine Chin. In theory, moths could be magnetised (using a high-iron diet) and polarised. By then making them fly backwards and forwards (using light) past conductive coils, an electric […]

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One of the most important works by artist Pablo Picasso is to be sold at auction in New York.

Picasso’s Arlequin was last seen in public 45 years ago and is expected to fetch over $30m (£16.3m) when it goes under the hammer in November.
The Cubist painting was owned by Surrealist artist Enrico Donati, who died […]

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