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About Botany Photo of the Day

Botany Photo of the Day in the News

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Downloads

Steve Milano and BJ Heinley have programmed a Botany Photo of the Widget for Macintosh OS 10.4 (Tiger) users!

Inspiration and Mission

Botany Photo of the Day is a daily photo weblog run by the staff at the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden. Its inspiration comes from NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, but with a few twists on their original idea. The garden is using weblog software to run the daily management of the images and annotations; this has a few advantages. First, it allows comments, questions and feedback from you, the reader. Second, it allows the garden to syndicate its content, offering you an alternative way of viewing the content through the magic of XML (see What is RSS? and RSS Tools for more information) while also offering other web sites the ability to display content from the UBC Botanical Garden web site, subject to a few licensing conditions.

Unfortunately, the garden does not have the budget of NASA, so it's going to be a test to see if we can manage a new photo with commentary every day for 365 days a year (we've done five months so far!). We're going to try our best, because we think it's a worthwhile venture to share the science and beauty of the plant world with you. In this age of extinction, we believe that it is imperative that botanical gardens have a role beyond studying the natural world: sharing the knowledge gained and advocating appreciation and understanding.

The idea for Botany Photo of the Day emerged out of a technology discussion with Tim Bray and Lauren Wood. You can read more about that day and discussion here and here.

User Submissions

If you would like to submit a photograph to be featured in Botany Photo of the Day, you have two options:

Use and Attributions

Reader-submitted photographs and text are copyright by their respective photographers, so permission must be sought from the photographer for any use of those images or text. While photographs and text from researchers and staff at UBC Botanical Garden are copyright the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research, the images and text are licensed for non-commercial use with attribution under a Creative Commons License.

Attribution of UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research images should preferentially credit UBC Botanical Garden. If you have the room to expand the credit, please mention the photographer and / or the full name of the institution, UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research.

Dropping us a note about how and where you are using the images is also appreciated, but not required for use.

Equipment and Software Used

Many of the photographs featured on Botany Photo of the Day are taken with some combination of the following:

Most photographs are originally taken in RAW format (as opposed to JPG or TIF). Digital postprocessing software used:

Contact

Please direct all correspondence regarding Botany Photo of the Day to: (web page)