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Geo Image Library - Image of the month archive 2004

If you have a contender for image of the month, please send your image for inclusion here to Kate Russell . It must be your own copyright of a web image we can link to.

September to December

Not to be mist!

Val Vannet took this on a June morning en route to school from one of Dundee's two volcanic plugs (not Jim Crumley's one!.) "It was a stunning meteorological 'not-to-be-mist' moment. Normally the estuary is laid out before you. Yesterday all you could see was the Ochils of Fife peeping out above the fog layer. Sometimes haar produces a similar effect but here, the mouth of the estuary and the sea were clear - only the river was shrouded so I guess it was temperature inversion."

Thanks to Val from the High School of Dundee for this.

August/September

10 pm approximately Summer Solstice across the UK

The power of collective effort is here. Thanks to Allysson Taylor for the idea and the rest of the team that cooperated. http://active.sln.org.uk/ubb/Forum5/HTML/001049.html

If you want to use this ppt presentation of images of the summer solstice at 10pm on 21st June 2004 download it here Solstice.ppt presentation. But it is 4mb so don't do it over an ordinary phoneline!

June-July 2004 Slovenia

How come you can pick up fish from this lake?

This is a new EU country but what is special about its landscape? Find out more about disappearing lakes, human fish and stunning alpine scenery.

April/May 2004 Bonnie Scotland

Thanks to Val Vannet, Dundee High School, for sending us these from 'North of the Border' . Is the landscape of Scotland forgotten in English Geography classrooms? it needn't be.

Two contrasting landscapes within a few hours of each other. Dundee and the Tay Estuary and Glen Clova, looking to Lochnagar, a classic glaciated up land scene. If you want to learn more listen again to Jim Crumley's Radio 4 programme about Dundee and the call of landscape in the imagination.

More of Val's photos can be found on www.geographyphotos.com

March/April 2004 'Planetisation'

Thanks to Fred Martin for coining the term and this dreadful or delightful image of the surface of Mars.

This really does confirm life on the the planet.

February 2004- Creative maps

This World Underground Map is one of several distortions of one of my favourite maps. I love the idea that you can travel on the district line from Sapporo to Rio, or on the Jubilee from Gothab to Singapore. It reminds me that we do need to recapture map representation and above all creative cartography. Enjoy these others too. Why not get pupils to make a map of their region in the style of the underground.

www.recenda.f9.co.uk/pages/tubemap.htm

and there are more here www.airenet.co.uk/alife/ldnmaps.htm

January 2004 - Urban myths - colour is back

Thanks to Bob Jones, Alleyne's High School for this image of new public housing in Castle Vale, Birmingham. Please send in any other interesting issues of

Imaginative architecture lifts the spirits and given our grey skies, we don't need grey buildings! Discuss? If colour is good enough for seaside resorts, Reykjavik and Sweden, why not Birmingham? Birmingham's new city centre and the new Selfridges's in particular is provoking equally as much debate. More images to be found here. http://www.virtual-brum.co.uk/selfridges.htm

This page last updated 22 April 2005