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Photographers Street View index

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Photographers Street View updated   31 August 2019 a Google "9 eyes" camera by  Kowloonese  at  en.wikipedia Welcome! The images you see in this collection are derived from Google Street View using Google's "Picasa" photo editing. The site has been developed to feature locations of interest to the author/photographer and you. Google explains their Street View project, including ways you can become involved on their page, " Understand Street View ." This page shows illustrations of the various ways their cameras are mounted on all sorts of contraptions (not just cars). You may be "wowed" by their publishing process here, too. Hats off to Google for starting a revolution in how we see our world and share it with each other! From 2013 comes this close look at a Google Street View car with Laser scanners and multiple cameras. Computer History Museum www.computerhistory.org/‎ Google's 9 eyes Street View self-portra...

CONTENTS revised 24 May 2019

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Our site map Photographers Street View Contents: Prologue -- Good Grief. Imperfection!   15 by 2: Google Street View: Single Shots The Anderson & Buchanan Connection: Taylorstown PA Arles, France: Searching for Iris & Sunflowers Boston MA Bridgeport CT Burlington VT Colliding with our Shadows: Phone Phlattery Demorest's Paris Depopulated! Reviving Memories: Brooksburg IN   Dubuque IA Everything's Up to Date! (In Kansas City, MO) Field Trip! 9 on 5: Field Trip no.1 Albany to Little Falls 9 on 5: Field Trip no.1 Herkimer NY west   Google Water View Happy Anniversary, St. Paul's NYC! Hartford CT In Passing Into Temptation: a Street View Hudson Promenade A Journey Down Market Street (Newark, NJ) Mt. Vernon NY New York City Pawtucket, Rhode Island: Shadows of Industry Restaurants in Passing: the Flo-Jean, Port Jervis NY Rochester NY Rural Street View Steel Windows: the B...

Colliding with our Shadows:

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Phone Phlattery More and more we see our screens. We collide with our environment, relying on our technology to interpret our experience for us. Do we see or hear anything of our immediate surroundings? No. Oblivious, we allow passing cameras to catch our image as we lose ourselves in alternate realities. We appear to be here. But our minds are miles away. Google Street View catches our obsession and renders a verdict on our distraction. We have become shadows of ourselves. *** Life, Stilled The "still life" of the 21st century is a far cry from that illustrated by 19th century artists. Since the advent of the cell phone, pedestrian traffic no longer flows predictably, but is a dance of random motions, the demented play of musical chairs. Do we stop when the music starts, or is it the other way 'round? Makes things complicated when we are all dancing to different music! Shadowing Meriden CT original Lost or found? Oblivious to the ...

15 by two: Google Street View

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Single shots You are here. But only for a moment. Your fleeting glimpse is featured here. Momentary inspiration can be revealing, especially when the images are revisited. Here are some perspectives that I have captured using generations of  Google Street View cameras (as many as 15 at one point) while "just passing by." Windsor Vt. original Street View Signal Lights at Windsor Seventeen eyes! You're seeing this via the 15 eyes of Google plus my two. Imperfections are common in these clips. On most images they can be minimized by adjusting the angle or selecting a different Street View year (if available). Below are two moods of Clark Street Rd. in Cayuga NY : original Street View   Winter Sun Between the Lines Ever see wildlife on Google Street View? "Black Towers" is a rare Street View sighting of a Herring Gull in NYC. 2 Water St., NYC   Black Towers "Imperfect Arches...