When Alice does one of her 'Just for the Record' posts, I get all excited. Because I know I might just get a glimpse into the world of her Department. I have an enduring love of Geography departments. There are always plenty of slightly strange things going on. Like this:
That's not me, by the way. If it was, my fists would be clenched because I used to find stereoscopic aerial photographs fiendishly tricky blighters. My ability to make them pop into glorious 3D seemed to re-set itself each time I blinked. This meant an hour long practical in which I tried to blink as little as possible and hence emerged at the end with frazzled eyeballs and more often than not a pounding headache.
But through the paracetamol haze, I retained a passion for aerial photographs - if you like them too, then you must take a look at Rhett Dashwood's work. He's collected an alphabet of google images from the air. My Dad is going to love it.
How cool is that? Thanks for passing along the link to his work.
Posted by: blackbird | 26 April 2009 at 00:08
Cool is the ony word to describe it! What a clever idea. My son "plays" google earth on the computer quite regularly!!!
Posted by: lina | 26 April 2009 at 02:17
that is certainly a print worth having!
Posted by: molly | 26 April 2009 at 04:10
That's so clever, amazing how we can see symbols of any culture in natural creations.
Posted by: rhubarb | 26 April 2009 at 07:40
That's brilliant! (and scrolling back through your entries, the sheep cupcake were genius, too).
Posted by: litlove | 26 April 2009 at 09:05
Oh thats super duper fabulicious! How great was the 'w'? I wonder what the hardest letter to find was. My mother in law has an alphabet made out of the wing patterns of butterflies.
Posted by: jenny | 26 April 2009 at 10:37
I saw these in The Telegraph - fantastic
Posted by: Gigibird | 26 April 2009 at 11:33
Oooh, I love those aerial photographs - brilliant! x
Posted by: Kitty | 26 April 2009 at 12:23
Wow, I can't see anything in 3-D. I could never be an architect. Areal photography always looks like a bunch of lines, squares and shapes and unless its blue and looks like water, I can't tell what is what.
Posted by: raina | 26 April 2009 at 13:35
How amazing!!
Posted by: Thimbleina | 26 April 2009 at 17:35
that is so cool!
April xx
Posted by: April | 26 April 2009 at 18:47
MrM enthuses about aerial photography too - but for archaeological purposes.
Thanks for the link - always a treat to welcome Ali's Pals to the Chez!
Posted by: Alice C | 26 April 2009 at 19:46
That contraption looks like a torture instrument! I'm not surprised you had a headache after using one! x
Posted by: juliab | 26 April 2009 at 20:48
Oh wow! I'm going to be passing that one on.
Posted by: The Coffee Lady | 26 April 2009 at 20:56
My eyeballs would go crazy looking through the stereoscope. Now, wouldn't these make a fabulous and certainly unique quilt? It would be especially fun if you could get shots of your own home area. This may be a strange idea, but such weird things run amok in my head on a regular basis (maybe there's a cure somewhere).
Posted by: Junie Moon | 27 April 2009 at 16:11
I love the aerial photos! I am a geographer and love looking at maps! But these aerial photos are brilliant!
Posted by: Di | 27 April 2009 at 18:03
Fantastic! I love the aerial alphabet, what a brilliant idea
Posted by: Simply H | 27 April 2009 at 20:13
That is brilliant!!! where on earth did you find it????
As a fellow geography graduate I know exactly what you mean about aerial photography, mercifully I did very little work on that. I've still got nightmares about a rainy weekend measuring the diametres of river pebbles somewhere in deep Wales....
shudder.
Posted by: monica | 28 April 2009 at 10:42
Amazing!
Posted by: Readersguide | 02 May 2009 at 00:28