camera obscura

A short walk up the hill you can look at the telescopes developed over the years by single-minded inventors. Next door, if the room with the Longitude timepiece is shut, you can wonder at the camera obscura. In the late afternoon sunshine of July we push aside the heavy curtain to stand in utter velvet black. Gradually our eyes show us the magic. The whole of Greenwich appears, tiny and in silent moving colour, on the table. Young visitors from the East tug digital equipment from their pockets and flash-photograph our view.