This Wild Curiosity

Earlier this year, I bought myself a point and shoot camera because I wanted to be able to take photos with a better zoom and resolution than I had on my phone.

I am fascinated by colour.

Scorzonera laciniata by Patrick Alexander, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons What is that?

For something a little different, here’s a little zine I made about finding joy in difficult times.

Like so many people, I have a bookshelf that is overflowing with familiar reads and yet-to-be-discovered favourites.

There’s a tendency for seasoned birders to turn their noses up at Merlin, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s extremely popular bird identification app.

There’s something clandestine about back alleys, as if they provide an opportunity to peel back the streetfront facade to reveal the real city underneath.

Plant specimens in a herbarium by Ludovic Péron, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons When I was a kid, one of my hobbies was collecting specimens of local wildflowers.

There’s something almost soothing about collections of photographs that allow us to explore an everyday subject in a new way.

There is something extremely satisfying about a digital collection of natural objects.