Science World

The day after our soggy walk I was in the warm and dry surroundings of Haydock Park photographing the Science World 2009 Exhibition for Thermo Fisher Scientific http://www.fisher.co.uk/

One of the highlights for me was chatting with the original enthusiatic but slightly mad scientist Professor Heinz Wolff. A regular on TV when I was in my teens, the Professor was the popular presenter of programmes such as Young Scientist of the Year and The Great Egg Race.

He told me that he did three different looks when he was being photographed - normal, academic....and this one...the mad Professor!

Judith Haan, the long time presenter of Tomorrow's World , is now an award winning journalist and key note speaker. I caught her in contemplative mood as she showed a clip of herself presenting the original TV programme........

The most entertaining part of the day had to Dr Hal Sosabowski's elemental spectacle 'the Bigger Bang' ('as seen on TV'). This took me back to my school and University days, the last time I encountered test tubes and bunsen burners. This was schoolboy chemistry at it's funniest - loud bangs, lots of smoke and flames and exploding ostrich eggs! I can't remember any of the chemicals involved (though I'm sure there was some phosphorous in there somewhere) but I do know that the last shot shows a 'flame in a test tube reaction' that sounded like a barking dog and lasted a fraction of a second. I had my D200 set on on fast motordrive and managed to capture it at it's peak.