The last image looks like some distance mapping data (possibly from a laser sensor or stereo vision camera) that got mixed up with the actual image data.
How do people think those pliers found their way into that picture? I like to think they were accidentally left on the roof of the car but that doesn't really make sense.
It would shock and sadden me if they didn't given they will produce quite a fantastic scholarly record in 50->100 years time. And given the growth in storage tech the cost of storing the old data sets will only get cheaper.
I still think the most interesting / scary Street view was when the Street view van was followed by kidnapper/rapist (now also a murder suspect) Phillip Garrido.
I have a couple of pro photography friends who lament the advent of consumer digital photography. The combination of photoshop and free shots means less people are making the effort to learn the art and science behind good photos.
I have to disagree. By my observation a lot more people are more interested in photography than there have been, due to high quality digital photography equipment at reasonable costs. And while some of them are very much "spam the shutter and see what pans out" talentless hacks, quite a few of them take the time to hone and expand their skills (behind the lens and in the "darkroom"). On the whole I think this leads to the creation of a greater number of talented and skilled photographers, though of course it also balloons the numbers of untalented photographers as well.
I'm with you. I loved and was fascinated by photography from a young age, but it was intimidatingly slow and expensive to experiment on film. Going digital let me do what I'd wanted to for years, the hobby ballooned and my skills went through the roof.
Photography involves capturing a moment or period of time, visually.
Technical skill can affect the way that moment is represented - but there'll always be an element of serendipity involved in taking a good shot.
Even so, this doesn't detract from the fact that someone who has invested time in the art of photography is going to be able to take more interesting and more notable photographs. I.e. The ratio of interesting:non-interesting shots, will be larger.
In the New Forest (down in the south west of the UK) there are ponies, horses, sheep and more wandering freely. They are used to cars (I guess they think that they are just other animals that use the road,) and so they will not move.
Several times we have had to stop, jump out of the car and physically push ponies off the road. Fun times.
It has been Common Land, with citizens rights of usage enshrined in law, since 1698. It is sadly one of the only remaining pieces of such land we have left.
At first I thought these were original photos taken to look like something from the Street View cars. The people looked strangely staged. I was a little surprised to find out they were authentic.
The staged aesthetic of the photos is really something interesting and unique, almost voyeuristic in some sense.
It says that you have a significant enough population of so called "chavs". And it's not just Britain. The kids in America were more or less the same. Lots of built-up anger in both cases.
Looking at many of these pictures is a reminder that poverty is akin to a disease.
From the photo where the kids are hiding their face, I'd guess there's a better chance that they think it's the police or some other government department photographing them than it being an anti-Google sentiment.
I suppose though it may depend on how the car/vehicle itself is branded.
you see a google car approaching and start to think quickly, what to do? how to express yourself? and i think even a total nerdy 'high achiever' may come up with just showing his ass! :)))
http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604823569/1/tumblr_l2j7f1fGXv1q...
What's up with the glitches?
http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/602808976/1/tumblr_l2hy4noyIh1q... http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/2514627600/1/tumblr_le7c01dQBv1... http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604710840/1/tumblr_l2j5aqOlYc1q... http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/602895911/1/tumblr_l2hzv1Iy6O1q... http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604809388/1/tumblr_l2j75fjOiJ1q... http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604756995/1/tumblr_l2j65tODrJ1q...