Monday miscellany

Winner of the World Photomicrography Competition - it's a diatom - or rather, lots of diatoms in a colony -

photo by Wim van Egmond (via)

An exhibition missed at the beginning of the year - "The Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein" was at the Queen's Gallery till 14 April. This review, with many images, fills the gap; it includes larger versions of these Dürer portraits - I love how carefully he draws (and paints) hair, fur, and cloth -

Philip Melanchthon and Willibard Pirckheimer by Albrecht Dürer

Around town -

Alleyway in Soho 

Railway bridge, Primrose Hill

Downtown at twilight

 Half term for the kiddies -

Magic mushrooms at Kew Gardens

Exploring jawbones at Grant Zoology Museum