Tag Archives: beauty
National Poetry Day 2020: A Vision of Beauty from George, Lord Byron
This is from a series of videos we made in 2015 for the theme of Light for NPD. This poem is also about a vision of beauty. She Walks in Beauty, by George Lord Byron, read by people in Bristol who work with light.
O is for Ocelot
This beautiful image of an ocelot was taken by Dan Bodenstein on Flikr. Ocelots are found in South America. They have exquisite coats, that can vary in colour and markings, and each is unique. They are solitary, like most cats, and only come together to mate, although sometimes cats of the same sex sleep together …
N is for Nightingale
This wonderful image of a nightingale singing at night was taken by Derek Thomas on Flikr. The nightingale, although beautiful, is an unremarkable little bird, pale brown in colour. It is seldom seen in the open, it is shy and tends to stay hidden in leafy trees and shrubbery. A member of the thrush family, like …
K is for Kingfisher
. . The kingfisher’s feather pigments are actually brown… the colours of blue, red and green are really iridescence, caused between different wavelengths of light interfering with each other. This is why it never looks the same colour from moment to moment, and why its feathers shine. Kingfishers are our brightest birds in the UK, …
G is for Gorilla
Photo by Christoph Würbel on Flikr. . . . . There are 100,000 western lowland gorillas left in the wild – less than the population of Crawley, West Sussex. There are 17,000 eastern lowland gorillas left in the world – the same population as Ripley, the fourth smallest city in the UK. There are 880 mountain …
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