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This week’s photo comes from Jonathan Howell, and he took it on the University of Sussex campus, on the edge of Stanmer Park, during a recent lunch break. “They are beech trees, I believe,” he says (thus ridding us of the need to make such classification, not our strongpoint). “I like the way they look like animal or human limbs, and how, as the eye moves across the picture, they create a rhythm. If you look from left to right and back, you get a different impression from if you look from right to left and back.” Jonathan, a photography graduate, took the picture on a Panasonic digital camera. “It’s a tiny thing, but it’s got a Leica lense, which is why I bought it.” A keen cyclist, he specialises in natural pictures of the Sussex countryside. He is looking for a local gallery to exhibit his work. Please contact us if you are interested, or, indeed, if you would like to submit a photograph for this slot. As we keep reminding you, we love getting them.


Life’s a beech. And then Cryptococcus fagisuga gets into your bark