"Look at it this way"

Cartoon by Dave Walker . Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons .

Edible landscapes... This was in the Sunday Times at the weekend. Photographer Carl Warner has been making landscapes out of food. There is now a selection on the BBC WEBSITE . I love them !

Tate Gallery recently held a photographic competition called "How we are Now" which asked people to post pictures of contemporary Great Britain... The winners have been announced , and it's worth checking out the ones in the Landscape category. Also discovered the SUBURBANALITY pool... All very Martin Parr...

Our Year 7s are being asked to create faces which are made up from OS Map Symbols. Their faces need a key of each of the symbols they use (spot the shoehorned 'education' bit...) and can be made up of layered symbols. They are given a laminated key to use. I will post some of the suggestions later once they have been judged. On the FLICKR Geography Teacher Resources Pool (which you should join and contribute to if you haven't already) some wonderful maps have been added by Flickr user mearse. These are the result of a project where students were asked to draw a map of anywhere: the 2 I've included are of unconventional 'landscapes': a student's house (and their pathways through it) and a fridge's contents... Click to make them larger. Some great ideas and so creative. Some great ideas. While we're at it, I recommend that you visit the gallery of Bryan Ledgard , who does a lot of design work for the Geographical Association and has a large collectio...

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Thanks to Mrs. Clarke for passing on some good feedback about the lessons on LANDSCAPES so far. We have been getting some interesting poems in from you when asked about how you 'view' or imagine landscapes to be. We'll be showcasing more of your work in the New Year. Thanks also to my friend Simon for telling me about the work of Josef Hoflehner, who is a photographer of LANDSCAPES . He has a particular style of photography which takes the key elements of a landscape. Check out his FROZEN HISTORY site for more sets of images, including the eponymous Frozen History set which has images of the hut used by Sir Ernest Shackleton on his Antarctic expeditions. The one below is from the snowscapes series, and is an example of the images. Check them out. He has an exhibition on in London at the moment. Image Copyright: Josef Hoflehner "Early Snow" I'm dreaming of a White Christmas....

From ANIMATION BACKGROUNDS blog. While you're watching the Christmas TV, or staring at your Christmas cards - how are the landscapes depicted ? What is a 'typical'' Christmas landscape ? What are its elements ? How realistic is it as a landscape ? Click the image above for a larger version, from the classic Tom Jerry "The Night Before Christmas" from the Quimby era (the only real T&J !)