Robb Montgomery

U.K.: Tour this ginormous photo of a snow-blanketed Britain produced by NASA (Click to zoom and hold to scroll.)

Displaying really big photos in really small places (Like a blog or a mobile phone screen) is a powerful story tool in today’s data-driven environment.

The counterpunch is to then marry this kind of eye in the sky report with some real time images of what this event looks like at ground level.

Visual Editors UK blogger, Alan Formby Jackson tweeted some photos from his back yard.

Here is a happy snap taken out my back door this morning.

I would have preferred to a see a UK media house produce a timespace story telling experience with this story. The Washington Post did this for President Obama’s inauguration and that a timespace would have been an even stronger interactive story form that could have been upgraded to include a lot of user submissions. It is not like editors did not see the big snow coming.
Did anyone attempt a user-generated reporting co-op/Pro-Am approach?

Indeed, it snowed when I was in filming scenes for a documentary in Scotland last month (And there has been snow cover on the ground most of the time here in Chicago since I returned) but I am just glad that I am not driving on the wrong side of the road around the top of Loch Lomond tonight. I did that in a wee snow storm and am confident that nobody is going anywhere on that road tonight.