Through some of the research I have done in the past week I have found (not to my surprise) that I am not the only one who looks through Google Maps and 'takes pictures' of what they find. I found several people who find strange and unusual settings, people, and situations and post them to the Internet in blogs. While I knew from the beginning that I wanted to do more than just present the images I myself have found, seeing what other people have done definitely reaffirmed this. The pictures alone are great, but for sure I need to progress from here.
I've decided that to get a good start I need to do something in addition to screen grabbing and doing research. So I'm going to find places on Gmaps in Richmond (for convince purposes) and then visit those place and photograph them my self. I'm going to try to choose a variety between randomly selected areas and places that seem interesting that hand pick from Gmaps. If I'm able to see the places in person, I will be able to really evaluate the differences and see how time and environment affects these areas.
Also I feel that photographing these places under different times circumstances will be useful to the research. When you want to see what a place looks like before you visit it, or if you are just curious, you go to Google and street view it. Street view is rapidly becoming a truth rather than just a reference. I'm sure that these places look dramatically different at night, during different weather, or even simply from another angle. Exploring these places will be a great way for me to challenge the cut and dry reality that Google presents us with everyday.
Here's a quick test done outside my house, more soon.
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