Seaworld, San Diego, California, USA
NOTE: “As Seen On Google Maps” has moved. (Please click the whale picture to check it out.)
My collection of Google Street View photos has grown a lot by now, but I didn’t want this blog to be only about Google Maps. I also noticed that my aim in traveling through Google Maps has started to evolve. I’m fascinated with the whole concept of the Google Street View project. People are truly caught off guard doing whatever they happened to be doing at the time Google drove past them. The Google cameras and the drivers are neutral, so there is no altering of reality through the eyes and agenda of the photographer. This is reality. This is street photography in its rawest form.
As a result, I became less interested in capturing only pretty images, and more interested in capturing people in the modern-day environment. How have different geographical areas been shaped by the presence of different peoples? And in turn, how do people behave as a result of where they’re from? Or really, which comes first though? This project is now a study on human behavior and geography, as seen through the eyes of the Google Street View cameras (although there will still be pictures of pretty scenery). Over all, it seemed very fitting to put them on a separate tumblr page. I know, it’s not a new idea, but I would still like to start my own separate archive of my Google travels.
I changed the name to “Scene on Google Maps” because I don’t like dashes, and the “as seen” part didn’t look too good as a one-word url. (haha) Follow, if you please:
Yukon, Canada | As Seen on Google Maps discovering the world through Google Maps
Tuscany, Italy | As Seen on Google Maps
Caledonian Lane, Melbourne, Australia | As Seen on Google Maps Melbourne has some awesome street art. So I took some screen caps.
Hosier Lane, Melbourne, Australia | As Seen on Google Maps
American Beach, Kangaroo Island, South Australia | As Seen on Google Maps
Wicklow, Ireland 2 | As Seen on Google Maps all my screencaps are of the Irish countryside. I am currently in love with these narrow streets, wildflowers, and just fields and fields and sky and sky and sky.
Carlow, Ireland 2 | As Seen on Google Maps
Glendalough, Ireland 2 | As Seen on Google Maps Glendalough is my favorite place I’ve found on Google Maps. All the fields are pink, it doesn’t even matter that the sky was overcast the day the Google Maps car drove through. It’s interesting too—on this street, the sheep are tagged blue. The next street over, the sheep belong to another shepherd. They’re tagged red.
Carlow, Ireland | As Seen on Google Maps I don’t even know what kind of farm that is, but it sure is pretty.
Wicklow, Ireland | As Seen on Google Maps I love finding people in Google Maps Street View. I know I might sound like a creeper, but seriously, I do, especially in rural places. Here, you can see a woman walking her two dogs among the wildflowers. (Click high res if you can’t see it.) When I saw this, I started to wonder about that woman. Who is she? What does she do for a living? What are her dogs’ names? Did she wave to whoever was driving the Google car as it passed by on this narrow road? It’s all that corny stuff about, you know, the universal human experience.
father and son in Elsinore, Denmark | As Seen on Google Maps I thought this was so cute. I love finding things like this on Google Maps Street View. They’re looking at the ducks.
