Seaweed Spotter

14/12/2020

Happy with these two cyanotypes - one of the actual seaweed and the other from a photograph taken down the microscope. Enjoying using an alternative form of photography - channelling Anna Atkins!

19/10/2020

Is it possible to have a favourite seaweed? This is definitely one of mine. Phyllophora pseudoceranoides. Love the name, too!

27/12/2019

Seaweed - seems to be the answer to everything these days from food to fertiliser, from pharmaceuticals to fuel. I fear there won't be enough seaweed to go around. It's not a bottomless resource to be exploited but a keystone species with an important role to play in the marine habitat. Will we ever change this anthropocentric view of everything around us? Maybe it's simply not possible for humans to take another view. What will we do when we've exploited everything? Die out?

21/08/2019

Seaweed has the answer.

A Lucozade Ribena Suntory-backed plastic-free packaging innovation has been granted an unspecified amount in government funding by Innovate UK – the UK government’s innovation agency.

01/01/2019

Nothing to do with seaweed;
just a decadent night of fun. Got to be there next year!
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=291654118364417&id=1143803202301544

11/05/2018

Another use of seaweed - shower gel containing seaweed extract. The scientific name is written in italics, as it should be, although as the other text is also in italics that’s probably just the designer’s choice of font not because it’s the scientifically correct thing to do. The species name should not be capitalised. It’s a mine field and very distressing for pernickety people like me!

06/04/2018

Corallina officinalis plus epiphyte. Pale bands at the sides of this cyanotype are a mistake I now know how not to make!

05/04/2018

Creating cyanotypes - beautiful colour. This is Halidrys siliquosa.