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Great to be here! 🌎🌍🌏
Thinking geographically 🌐 GIS, trivia and other important things... #GeographyTeacher and author; RGS C Geog, BBC Weather Watcher; landscape art and photography; #EruditePedagogy; #EduSky; Music, poetry esp with links to place
❄️ Where do the Winter Olympiads take place? ❄️
During their 102 years, the Winter venues have carved out an interesting spatial pattern, taking in plenty of longitude, but not much latitude (expt with 'trail' animation technique)
@milanocortina26
@iocmedia.bsky.social @teamgbofficial.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 10:24 PM
January 24, 2026 at 5:45 PM
High pressure still in charge; another very cold night on the way
-5°C or lower #SurreyHills
@stormhour.com
@metoffice.gov.uk @thephotohour.bsky.social #getoutside
January 5, 2026 at 5:52 PM
*A rose between two thorns*
#WaningGibbous 98% 🌕 rising over south London in between the Crystal Palace and Croydon transmitters, seen from #SurreyHills
#WolfMoon #OldMoon #IceMoon #SnowMoon #Supermoon
@davidbflower.bsky.social
@stormhour.com
@metoffice.gov.uk @thephotohour.bsky.social #getoutside
January 4, 2026 at 8:17 PM
"And three trees on the low sky...
...And arrived at evening, not a moment too soon
Finding the place; it was (you may say) satisfactory." T. S. Eliot
@cloudappsoc.bsky.social
@thephotohour.bsky.social
@thephotohour.bsky.social
@metoffice.gov.uk #StormHour #loveukweather #getoutside
January 2, 2026 at 9:55 PM
🔊'Get Back - The Places'🔊
2nd January 1969: Day 1 of the Get Back/Let It Be sessions
Where are the places linked to The Beatles' classic song 'Get Back'? #GetBackTheBeatles #Psychogeography
Story Map created using
@esriuk.bsky.social #ArcGISStoryMaps
Link to story map: arcg.is/18WvnP1
January 2, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Retreat of the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, Iceland
🙏@copernicuseu.bsky.social
Sentinel-2 imagery -Breiðamerkurjökull Georef with #MediaLayers in @esriuk.bsky.social #ArcGISOnline and imported to #3DScene
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
@subfossilguy.bsky.social @edhawkins.org
arcg.is/1PKif54
December 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
'Merry Christmas...and God bless all of you on the good Earth'

#Apollo8 Christmas Eve 1968 message, over SELENE (Kaguya) 'Earthrise' footage, similar to the view seen by Borman, Lovell + Anders
@davidbflower.bsky.social
@daveatcogs.bsky.social
Details + HQ video here: vimeo.com/187472403?re...
December 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
December 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
A beautiful sunset over The Bristol Channel seen from #BarryIsland with Foreland Point lighthouse guiding the shipping at dusk
@cloudappsoc.bsky.social @stormhour.com
@thephotohour.bsky.social
@metoffice.gov.uk @derekbrockway.bsky.social @barrybados.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
*The only way is up*
🌄 The earliest sunset of 2025 has been and gone #SurreyHills
The sun will set later every day now until around 25th June!
@cloudappsoc.bsky.social @stormhour.com
@thephotohour.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk #StormHour #loveukweather #getoutside
December 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A magnificent early cloudscape c1900: #Cumulus prob over Yapton, W Sussex by Sidney Fletcher.
Possible Léonard Misonne influence?
🙏@FacesInTheLight #242
Restored+colourised using @GeminiApp
#Swipe @www_re_photos
@cloudappsoc.bsky.social @stormhour.com
@thephotohour.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk
December 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Golden Gate Strait c1900
3 decades before the bridge!
Unmistakeable outline of Angel Island; Possibly Sausolito ferry; Helmet Rock + Lands End
@ggbridge.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com
AI Colourised w @GeminiApp Nano Banana
Original 🙏@FacesInTheLight #258
#Swipe @www_re_photos
December 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Place du Marché,
Saint-Valery-en-Caux c1900 Seine-Maritime, @Normandy, France #ChangingPlaces
AI Colourised w @GeminiApp Nano Banana
Original from @FacesInTheLight
#Swipe created in @www_re_photos #rephotography
December 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
December 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🎶🔊🎄Step Into Christmas🎄🔊🎶
Y7 students used #GIS to map Christmas placenames
🙏 @natlibscot.bsky.social maps GB1900 Gazeteer > 'Christmas' > CSV > @esriuk.bsky.social #ArcGISOnline
2D incl @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social #Firefly symbols+ pop-ups, then #3DScene > 3D trees stars+baubles #HowIUsedGISToday
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
L'église du Sacré-Cœur (Church of the Sacred Heart) Place d'Allier, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France @fneaura.bsky.social #ChangingPlaces
AI Colourised w @GeminiApp Nano Banana
Vg for car + street details, but hallucinates with perspective!
Original: Unknown Photgrapher@FacesInTheLight
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
⬇️ International Space Station ⬇️
@Space_Station #ISS threading a west to east path between the #WaxingGibbous Moon 76% and #Saturn at 16.39 over the #SurreyHills #Timelapse
@davidbflower.bsky.social
@metoffice.gov.uk
@stormhour.com
@thephotohour.bsky.social #StormHour #loveukweather #getoutside
November 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
'It only stops for her' 20 Sep 1962: As part of the Beeching cuts, Great Longstone station, Derbyshire was closed for all except Alice Boardman to support her essential nursing work. #MonsalTrail @vpdd.bsky.social monsaltrail.org.uk/great-longston… Movietone �� @apnews.comyoutu.be/7J9USbjHY4E?...fi
November 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Spectacular uplit skies along the sharply defined trailing edge of a #ColdFront passing over the
@cloudappsoc.bsky.social
@stormhour.com
@thephotohour.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk #StormHour #loveukweather #getoutside
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
🔊🎶Meeting the challenge🎶🔊
A map shared on each day of Nov 2025:
25 brand new maps + 5 'classics'.
See my timeline or my @linkedin.com page @mildthing99 at the other place
#GoGIS4GA #GIS
🙏🎶Mix of 'Crosswalk' @TEEDinosaurs
🙏 @tjukanov.bsky.social who started #30DayMapChallenge
Day 30: Makeover
November 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM