A CLOSER look at some of the beauties of nature on his doorstep by a keen photographer and wildlife enthusiast shows what we could all be missing.

Haslemere Natural History Society member John Richardson inspired everyone to look more closely at their own habitats with his illustrated talk at Haslemere Museum Saturday, detailing the eye-catching discoveries he made within a mile of his home on the Surrey/Sussex border.

John’s keen observations of surrounding flora and fauna were recorded and captured in hundreds of photographs taken on walks in the countryside close to Haslemere and his talk will also include information on how to nurture and protect the birds we feed and encourage them to visit our gardens.

Haslemere Natural History Society’s next talk at the museum, on February 9 at 2pm, is on a pioneering father and son from Chiddingfold who were both Nobel Laureates.

Medical biochemist Dr Jack Salway details the groundbreaking inventions and discoveries of Sir William Bragg and Sir William Lawrence Bragg, who gave us the Bragg Peak, used in radiotherapy, and Bragg’s Law, which reveals the double-helix of DNA and the cause of Mad Cow Disease.