Over a full year I stopped at a local semi rural driveway not all that far from where I live. Of the nine photos you see here, there were hundreds taken. I had several conversations with the owner and promised him a print of the collage when I eventually made it.
It occurs to me that in many ways, our contributions to Maps are a bit like this project. We add photos of our local area or places that we visit and sometimes will add more as we progress forward in time because we re-visit or the place has changed.
We are recording history and creating one of the worlds richest geolocated image repositories that one day will be mined by digital archaeologists to understand that the past was like.
Even today it can be interesting to time travel by looking at older photos of a place to see how it has changed.
Next time I do a year long project I’m going to put a mark on the ground where to shoot from as despite best efforts my viewpoint in each of these shots is different. Next time.
Hi @PaulPavlinovich . I haven’t done this but it makes me want to! How beautiful is that driveway and that you connected with a local person, too, is even better. We are indeed capturing our experiences and history at once!
Hmm. I wonder if I should capture the trees near the elementary school on my walk to the train; that way I can capture seasons, what the school marks as important and a little slice of NYC all in one!
That was the idea @AbdullahAM and @TraciC - sort of life becomes death becomes life again. I think I’ll do more long term projects - they need to be a place you go past or to a lot so you’ve got an opportunity to capture the place with nice light.
Another interesting one, particularly for you Traci - pick someplace like Brooklyn Bridge and do a series of shots from the same vantage showing the people over the seasons as their dress changes through the cold and hot times. I work next to a beach so I keep thinking about doing this as a scene from our building across the park with the beach in the distance. It would be cool to mount a camera on the outside of the building to facilitate this.
I love the idea, @PaulPavlinovich , and I love the concept of what we do in Google Maps, marking the history of a place. Sometimes I love to check this with the historical function of Street View, to see how a place is changing (or sometime not changing enough) year by year.
I am documenting how my places change season after season, but I never thought about a fixed, specific point. Yes, it can be interesting
You can hang out in a cemetery if you want to @TraciC - just about any place with an iconic repeatable view to mix with the changing people would work well.
