Usually you can see Sir John Everett Millais’ Ophelia at Tate Britain, but it was recently loaned out to Japan and now is in Turin, after that maybe somewhere else. It is good to share. For most interested people around the globe a digital or printed image is all that they are ever likely to …
Pascal Wyse and Joe Berger are two witty, silly, offbeat gentlemen, who go by the moniker of Berger & Wyse when producing some super cartoons together for The Weekend Guardian among others. Of particular interest to us are the talking fruit and vegetable cartoons from their food series. Here are a few of our favourites below, …
It is always the way that when you spend ages evaluating the Top 10 plant inspired album cover artworks of all time, the very next week another one will come along that you like even more. Just try it. Anyhow, rather than update an old post Plant Curator decided to create a new one. So today …
Today’s post was inspired by watching the film Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus last night. A film released in July of last year in the US, but only last month in the UK. It’s a really enjoyable film and significantly one of the main stars is a plant. It got Plant Curator thinking about …
High dynamic range (HDR) photographic imaging has been extremely popular in recent years. It is a style of photography that is frequently employed not only by commercial artists but amateurs too. This was made possible by the widespread ownership of both digital cameras and post-production software like Adobe Photoshop. It seemed, for a while at least, …
To some of us herbaria, taxonomy, nomenclature and specimens are all rather romantic. To others they are living symbols of our colonial past and neo-colonial present. Where the role of botanical expeditions in exploiting, through acquisition and inventory, the world’s most valuable species, contributed to the monolithic global economic inequities that are impossible to shift …