21 places you MUST visit (on Google Street View)
Why not take a free trip around the world?
The Earth is a little bit beautiful. We showed you just how beautiful in
20 places that remind you the Earth is beautiful. The clue was in the name.
But as lovely as all of these places look it's rather expensive to just go jetting off across the globe, criss-crossing sites of astounding natural beauty with a care in the world.
Well Aaron Hobson noticed this and thought he'd just cut out the middle man. So he got rid off all of this 'flying' business and went on a tour of the planet from his very own armchair. He booted up Google Street View and soon found that pictures taken from the top of a car at pre-planned intervals can actually throw up some pretty gorgeous shots.
So why not try it for yourself? Take a an afternoon trip to 39 countries. Have a look around over 3,000 cities. Take advantage of Google's freely available images taken from 5 million miles of road. I can't believe you haven't done it already.
Full resolution copies of the images in this article can be found here.
1. Canary Islands, Spain
2. La Linea de la Concepcion, Spain
3. Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
4. Inverallochy, Scotland
5. Acquaresi, Sardinia
6. Las Champas, Mexico
7. Morrone del Sannio, Italy
8. North Coast of Estonia (Gulf of Finland)
9. Posada de Valdeón, Spain
10. Outskirts of Seoul, South Korea
11. Huautla, Mexico
12. Prague, Czech Republic
13. Route 17, South Africa
14. San Felipe Jalapa de Diaz, Mexico
15. Sanday Island, Scotland
16. Sao Joao, Brazil
17. Shipping Container Bridge, Taiwan
18. The Côte d’Azur (French Riviera)
19. Tohoku, Japan
20. Tohoku, Japan (again)
21. Tohoku, Japan (and then again)
Street View has really given a valuable and unique insight into the landscape of this post-tsunami region of Japan and we strongly suggest that you check it out.
More of Aaron Hobson's work can be found here. He is also selling signed, limited edition prints of his chosen
Street View Tohoku tsunami pictures here, with all proceeds going to help recovery efforts.
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Street View Tohoku tsunami pictures here, with all proceeds going to help recovery efforts.
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the most amazing photographs of 2012
2012 has been a great year in it's own way. It may have been full of ups and downs, victories and losses, successes and disappointment (as with pretty much any year). But how ever you've found it. It's still been full of wondrous and wonder. Or something.
All of these photos came to light this year. Whether they have been found, released after years away from the public eye or just plain old taken, they all have one thing in common. They're kind of amazing.
So sit back and take it all in.
Alternatively you take them all in here in HD.
1. A pod of sleeping sperm whales.
2. Aurora Australialis (Southern Lights) from space.
3. Flight of the devil rays.
4. Galactic monsoon.
5. A recently released picture of 9/11 taken by the only American man not on Earth that day.
6. A sunset eclipse.
7. Elephant meets sea lion.
8. 7 hours in one image.
9. Base jumping from Christ.
10. Bora-Bora from space.
11. Chicago from a distance.
12. Monks being awesome.
13. Felix Baumgartner prepares to jump from space.
14. First contact.
15. A cloud full of lightning.
16. This Filipino couple didn't let flooding stop them.
17. Patterns in dried out desert rivers.
18. A desert oasis in Libya.
19. A recently unearthed photo of workers on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1914.
20. One hot model shoot.
21. A recently found photo of the now demolished Metropolitan Opera House.
22. Living on the edge.
23. Meditating monks at Pongour falls.
24. Moth trails caught at night.
25.Mount Rainier casts a shadow.
26. Now that's graffiti.
27. One boat, 145 water-skiers.
28. The sun flares up in this enhanced colour photograph.
29. Putting the size of whales into perspective.
30. Salar De Uyuni after rain.
31. Preparing to snow-mobile the Norway-Sweden border.
32. A composite of hundreds of take-offs at Hannover Airport.
33. The amazing strength of ants.
34. A found photo showing the true extent of the bombing of Dresden during WW2.
35. The Chicago skyline. This time across Lake Michigan.
36. A honey-bee uses it's last sting.
37. Walking the keel.
38. That's a lot of canoes and kayaks.
39. The most incredible Aurora of 2012.
40. The sea-horse watch inspector.
41. The Perseids Meteor Shower.
42. The rollercoaster submerged by Hurricane Sandy.
43. The end of the world (otherwise known as Beachy Head).
44. Moon Bridge in Dahu Park, Taipei.
45. Pixel perfect people.
46. The power of an orange.
