By no means do I think my images are as riveting and interesting as Rafman's. In two days since I started I have explored Tallahassee, the Florida Panhandle, the Atchafalaya River corridor in southern Louisiana, Stuttgart, San Luis Potosi Mexico, Northwestern Canada and Lisbon. I get a kind of rush when exploring, looking at all the cameras on the screen lined up like beads: so much to find! So many unexplored niches, so many places no one has ever seen...world here I come!
I do in fact believe that most of Street View is unseen. The images are fed into the system and processed in batches. Among the viewers, there are probably very few like Rafman and myself, that is, trolling for images to capture and re-present as art.
What is the point? I try to stay away from slum-tourism. Rafman presents a lot of prostitutes and people with guns. I am collecting my images with the knowledge that Rafman has already done it. I am trying to capture something a little different, but really just trolling for anything that can be viewed as an interesting composition. And if I happen upon somebody with a gun, it is definitely going in the collection.
Rafman has some interesting commentary on his website, I encourage you to poke around over there.
And without further ado, here is my two days worth of Google Street View (click inside any image for a larger format version):
A house for a car. Humans enter in rear.
Yin and yang.
Notice parrot in cage on counter.
Man with camera looking directly at camera. In Stuttgart, the GE camera person takes the unit off the car and walks around. And they don't blur faces.
On Rafman's page, I liked the nature shots best, especially the ones capturing wildlife in flight. But then there's the Winnipeg man kicking back in the truck bed with a bottle of beer. The license plate is blurred out, but it's definitely Manitoba, most likely Winnipeg, probably the North End. I can just tell.
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