Another early morning in Richmond Park

Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵 1/

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

An animated graphic showing wingbeats of different birds. This one is so beautiful. Image: Eleanor Lutz tabletopwhale.com/2014/09/29/f...

Another night in a freezing, snow covered Richmond Park. Missed the full moon by a day. So cold I could hardly attach the lens to the tripod.

Went to see the Icicle Refrozen balloon ascent but from downwind at Greenham Common. No free flights, only tethered so didn’t see a balloon BUT did explore the old Greenham Common air base which was spectacular

Not just a novelist, @ursulakleguin.com was also a cartographer. Her fictional geographies were on display this fall at London’s Architectural Association Gallery, and a companion book on Silver Press sheds new light on her peerless world-building. Read our interview with editor/curator Sarah Shin.

Aurora hunters in the UK might find this map useful this evening www.cpre.org.uk/light-pollut... But check cloud cover maps as well.

Back to mist covered mornings in Bushy Park

HERE IT IS!!!!!

Walking around Bushy Park this time of year is always interesting. Every path ends up blocked by a stag.

Storm over Surbiton

Work related shenanigans meant I failed to make this year’s @bcsmaps.bsky.social conference. Very saddened.

The geography of American aircraft production, according to a Japanese map from Feb. 1943

I spoke all things cartography with my colleagues in the ‘DK Where to Go’ podcast. A less than ideal media choice to discuss a visual topic. I discuss my favourite map, why maps lie, how we make maps and how a cartographer’s map joke created a town. shows.acast.com/where-to-go/...

The Thames in Kingston looking unfortunate this morning.

Bushy Park during this morning’s run

Waiting for a bus home from Kingston town centre last night.

Maps are artistic scientific expressions, which is why I chose a career studying and making them. Here are some lemon-yellow Tissot's indicatrix brighten your day. Since all maps involve distortion, exploring these distortions can deepen your understanding of the map's subject. #datavisualization

I love early spring walks/runs through the royal parks

Good morning, 25th January edition.

Winter morning exercise in the park.

Outside cafe in Esher collecting croissant crumbs in the pouring rain.

Waiting for its Christmas gift of half an apple

Wonderful Q&A at the BFI Southbank today for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Hello! The Atlas of Design shows off some of the world’s most beautiful and intriguing cartographic design. Every two years, we publish a new volume of full-color maps, selected from worldwide competition and judged by an expert panel. Happy to be part of Bluesky! #maps #cartography #books #design

A quite monstrous Christmas map effort from @TfL. There's nothing redeeming about this whatsoever.

Good morning

#30DayMapChallenge Day 22: 2 colours I thought I'd make life difficult for myself with this one by being strict about only 2 colours. No grey scales; no 2 colours + background colour. Just 2. Halftone dots made up of mini moons to map a big moon: observablehq.com/@jwolondon/t...

Video showing the carpark of the Blue Lagoon in Iceland being eaten by lava.... Via: MBL on X

After 5 months the pond liner is down and the rain can do its thing to fill over the next few days

Pretty certain the neighbour’s cat hates me

2025 is another not great year for the Severn Bore.

If, like me, you're increasingly disinclined to pay Adobe's significant annual subs, here are two affordable lifetime-license alternative options I'm seriously looking at: (1) Affinity Designer (recently bought by Flourish-owner, Canva) - affinity.serif.com/en-gb/design... - has a 50% discount

We're delighted to announce a new future for Ursula's home in Portland, Oregon. The Le Guin family will donate the house to Literary Arts as a site for the Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency. apnews.com/article/ursu...

The BFI Imax only has storage space for one more Christopher Nolan film.

Goodyear Europa. Fairoaks Airfield, Surrey 1984

Winter bee

January sunrise

January’s full (Wolf) moon over London last night.

Paperback cover dropped! ADORING this vibe

How do you like your pies? Here's a fresh serving of 'moonpies' - a new flavour of pie symbology with a downloadable style for ArcGIS Pro. Read about it in my blog 'Pie in the sky' www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

After 11 days stuck sick at home I finally made it out for a walk this morning.

outside the window of the HSBC

“Santa Claus in the [first] Goodyear Blimp “Pilgrim”” (1925, via www.airships.net/blog/santa-r...)

It’s always an omen when your phone wasn’t connected properly and didn’t charge overnight. 18% and falling.

Finding the book you spent three years working on at the national theatre bookshop is a treat. A great Christmas gift etc etc etc