It has been a long long time since I have visited my blog , leave alone wring a new post . But today I am motivated to take up blog writing . I will tell you how this motivation has come about.
I have been making maps of our road trips since may be 2005 or so. When we did a trip to US Of A I had mapped that as well.The effort was very well appreciated by my self . So now that when we did Europe trip I did so once again . Only this time I did much more with the map than what I had done in mapping the States trip . This time I tried to name the name and locate every building ,every statue , every painting, every place and every scenery we had photographed.
This was, as knowledgeable will acknowledge, not easy. I googled for places , searched the google images of each locality where photo was likely to have been taken . Did the same with panoramio.The search took me to lots of blogs , photo galleries , photo collections by various individuals.This search for information was an amazing and fascinating and educative journey. May be as good as our Europe Trip :-) . It was amazing to see the dedication , enthusiasm, time and effort spent by some of them on their past time , Hobby or whatever name one would want to call their efforts. Some had collection of as many as 25,000 plus photographs they had put on the web. Some had made them free for public , some had made then conditionally public and some had copy righted every image of theirs.
I did get the required information from various galleries, collections etc . On names from some , on locations from some on both these from very very few . Blogs with embedded photos by various individuals also did help .I freely acknowledge their help and contribution .
It was then that I decided to start writing about our trip in the blog. Even while mapping , I had felt that lack of space did hamper what one wanted to say . The map had only sufficient space for dry facts and figures. What it had to offer was totally insufficient to express the feelings and emotions and that, the blog was the place for it. So that was another reason to start this effort . Let us hope I have sufficient tenacity to take it to the logical conclusion.
Before ending here is the link to what it is all about :
"Avsmarniya Europe and Scotland"
I have been making maps of our road trips since may be 2005 or so. When we did a trip to US Of A I had mapped that as well.The effort was very well appreciated by my self . So now that when we did Europe trip I did so once again . Only this time I did much more with the map than what I had done in mapping the States trip . This time I tried to name the name and locate every building ,every statue , every painting, every place and every scenery we had photographed.
This was, as knowledgeable will acknowledge, not easy. I googled for places , searched the google images of each locality where photo was likely to have been taken . Did the same with panoramio.The search took me to lots of blogs , photo galleries , photo collections by various individuals.This search for information was an amazing and fascinating and educative journey. May be as good as our Europe Trip :-) . It was amazing to see the dedication , enthusiasm, time and effort spent by some of them on their past time , Hobby or whatever name one would want to call their efforts. Some had collection of as many as 25,000 plus photographs they had put on the web. Some had made them free for public , some had made then conditionally public and some had copy righted every image of theirs.
I did get the required information from various galleries, collections etc . On names from some , on locations from some on both these from very very few . Blogs with embedded photos by various individuals also did help .I freely acknowledge their help and contribution .
It was then that I decided to start writing about our trip in the blog. Even while mapping , I had felt that lack of space did hamper what one wanted to say . The map had only sufficient space for dry facts and figures. What it had to offer was totally insufficient to express the feelings and emotions and that, the blog was the place for it. So that was another reason to start this effort . Let us hope I have sufficient tenacity to take it to the logical conclusion.
Before ending here is the link to what it is all about :
"Avsmarniya Europe and Scotland"
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