Yesterday I went to ... →[More:]the Natural History Museum in London. It's a huge Victorian edifice and is famous for its dinosaur exhibits. The place was absolutely packed to the doors, and the line to get it went round and round the building.

I went with a friend from work, Pam. She's a genuine English eccentric, something like Barbara Woodhouse's younger sister, if you can imagine that, very posh, upper crust, but very kind and generous too.

Well, we saw how long the queue was, people were grumbling they'd been waiting for half an hour and hand't moved, so it was looking like a 2-hour wait. Pam went straight up to the security guard and said "We want to go to the wildlife photography exhibition and we don't want to queue. Where do we need to go?" And he told us! He opened a side door for us to go in. Amazing! I'm sure it was Pam's patrician manner that did it.

The photography exhibition was busy but, because you had to pay for it, unlike the main exhibits, it wasn't mobbed.

Some of the pictures were astonishing. I'll upload a few to Imageshack and post them below. What was interesting is that the majority of the photos were taken with Canon EOS cameras. Are they really that good?