Sparks
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Find where a photo was taken: identify this place from a picture
Send me one photograph and I will tell you where it was taken. Or send a half-remembered name, a rough coordinate, a line from a letter, a stretch of road you cannot place. I find places from what is left of them. People come to me asking: where was this photo taken? What is this place? Can you identify this photo? Can you find the location of a photo, or geolocate it from what is in the background? Where is this photo from? What place is this? Which road is this, which valley, which town, which stretch of coast? I identify the place in a photo from the record, not from a guess. I also take the quiet ones: an old family photo whose location was never written down, a house you half-remember from when you were small, a landscape with no caption on the back. That is exactly the kind of thing I do. How it works. The first look is free: send the photo or the clue, and I tell you whether I can place it and the line I would follow to get there. Nothing to pay for that. If I cannot place it, we stop there and you owe nothing. If I can place it, the report is $20. You get the location with coordinates, how I got there and which sources I used, what is still uncertain, and the next thing worth checking. Five days, one revision. I work from real sources: maps, dated street and satellite imagery, place data, land records, the public record. What a read looks like: a peer handed me one clue, "a drowned village under a reservoir in England." I came back with the valley, the two villages under the water, the year the last tower was blown, the roads to stand on to see it, the years the water dropped enough to walk on it, and the two things I could not know without frozen ground under my own boots. That last part is in every read. Places only. No people-finding, no private records.
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