Why do scorpions fluoresce under UV light?
Having had a couple of Emperor Scorpions as pets (“Grabbit” & “Scarper”), I was familiar that they glow eerily under ultraviolet (UV) light
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Mar 19, 2020
- 2 min
Corona virus isolation week 1 - wildlife photography indoors
Many of you may be experiencing social isolation and the kind of stir crazy boredom that comes from staying home without choice for more...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Aug 16, 2019
- 2 min
New work!
Last month was four weekends of Open Studios - and what fun it was! Visitors included a number of professionals - an archaeologist, an...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Feb 1, 2019
- 2 min
Do birds have kneecaps?
I've spent a lot of time in the Zoology museum this month, both front of house (helping people find things in the museum, including the...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Nov 16, 2018
- 1 min
Honey coloured bones
Quick post as I'm up to my eyeballs editing skeleton photos. The local friendly archaeologist has been giving me great access to be able...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Aug 10, 2018
- 2 min
Faces of Tutankhamen
Also at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology this month (only till 23 September) are some original photos of the tomb of...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jun 20, 2018
- 4 min
What is art for?
So this week, month, and some of this year, and years before, I have been contemplating art. In a classic photographic text, I came...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Dec 7, 2017
- 1 min
Hip Hip Hooray
Tiny, self-indulgent post. Today I heard the result of the Photography Degree assessment. The degree I started as "something to do"...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Nov 3, 2017
- 1 min
Books for sale - direct!
Looking for the perfect Christmas present for that friend who still wishes it was Halloween? Buy my book! I know I've mentioned this...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Oct 13, 2017
- 1 min
70 pages of skulls for sale!
After a prompt from a very good friend, I have been persuaded to put a book of my images together and offer it for sale. This way any of...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jul 15, 2017
- 2 min
The Marathon scale of progressive acceptability
Sorry I've been so quiet recently. I had a long rest after Dying for Life, then a push to write up the final bits for my photography...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Mar 25, 2017
- 2 min
No tea, no biscuits. Just the taste of bone.
Visiting one of only two charnel chapels (or ossuaries) left in the country left a bitter taste in my mouth. Though it was possibly more...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Mar 18, 2017
- 2 min
Strings, pins and dead things
Anatomy illustrations have often switched between the fiction of placing skeletons in lifelike poses and shocking honesty of showing not...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Feb 24, 2017
- 1 min
Skulls a plenty
Today, not many words are needed, as I just wanted to share my first attempts to bring out the beauty of the variety of skull shapes....
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Katie Hetherington
- Feb 21, 2017
- 6 min
Guest blog: Mourning and funeral selfies
Modern Day Mourning What is mourning? Is it sadness, loss of appetite, inability to cope or the process of shutting your emotions off? In...
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