MetaFilter posts tagged with travel and photographs

Old ships and nautical memorabilia

nickyskye — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:15:25 -0800

Old Ships is a website packed full of evocative, interesting and historical pictures of old ships from A to Zambesi. It's a feast of all kinds of other vintage maritime images, including ports, docks, ferries, harbors, paintings, canals, rivers, maritime scenes, onboard pictures, shipboard menus, lots of great postcards and other old historical nautical memorabilia (even the ship's cat). A random selection: Samurai on horseback looking out to a ship at sea | Alexandria | Alger | Lowestoft sailing trawler | the Stella Polaris breakfast menu | "Whang poo sampans", Shanghai, China | Sea Princess luncheon menu | Lusitania sailing times | St. Jean Lighthouse, Marseille | Cairo, the Nile | Benares Bathing ghat |Queen Mary Swimming Pool | America's Cup Race Yacht Columbia and Britannia Lots of assorted images of the Titanic: boarding pass | Titanic gangway | Titanic rudder | commemorative postcard | cross section | Titanic propellers | image of the Titanic's Captain Smith (on the right), the officers and the name of the hymn that was played by the ship's band as they sank | Titanic's survivors

The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway

netbros — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:23:55 -0800

Driving through Time features roughly 2700 photographs and 76 interactive maps of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The website allows students, researchers, and digital tourists to uncover hidden stories, hear forgotten voices, and understand the often wrenching choices that the construction and preservation of a scenic parkway in a populated region have necessarily entailed. In addition to making Parkway materials from several different archives available and searchable online, "Driving Through Time" includes two features that organize the materials in space as well as in time: To the extent possible, each item included in the collection has been assigned a geographic coordinate, linking the historical document to the Parkway location to which it pertains. This allows many of the collection’s items to be found via the geo-browse function that identifies clusters of items relating to specific locations. Additionally, many of the historic maps have been georeferenced, or aligned with their proper location on the present-day landscape, a technique that permits users to "see through" historic maps, compare past and present, and visualize how the Parkway might have looked had alternate plans been carried out. These maps are also available for download in a format suitable for use in Geographic Information System (GIS) software.

Middle East Travel Photography

netbros — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:46:38 -0800

Momentary Awe ― travel photography from more than 20 countries by Catalin Marin. Also in flash format.

Vintage Flight Attendant Photos

brain_drain — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:07:58 -0800

Remember when air travel was viewed as glamorous and exciting? Of course you don't. So check out this collection of vintage flight attendant photos: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Read all about it!

Gamblor — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:18:48 -0800

Extra! Tabloid photographs from the Los Angeles Herald Express (1936-1961), showing celebrities, fashion, tragedy, (early) CHiPs, and babes with guns. Via the Virtual Gallery at the LA Public Library, which has many other fine exhibits, such as California in the 20s, the 1932 Olympics, celebrity golf, and a wonderful collection from the golden age of travel posters.

360-degree panoramic galleries of European cities

funambulist — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 04:07:33 -0800

Arounder has an ongoing collection of high-quality full screen Quicktime VR panoramas of European cities, focusing on famous artistic and cultural landmarks (in Rome, Florence, Köln, Barcelona, Cyprus), with interactive maps and travel information. A collaboration with national tourist offices by Swiss company Vrway Communication, which also publishes Vrmag, a bi-monthly review of panorama photography, and the FullscreenQTVR directory in collaboration with the well-known panoramas.dk (previously mentioned on metafilter: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

"Take a virtual tour to some landmarks of Slovenia and a lot of fun!"

jokeefe — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 22:03:24 -0800

Virtual Reality Panoramas of Slovenia. This virtual guide is an attempt to present world landmarks with the point to - Slovenia. The goal of this project is to display the cultural and natural heritage of our planet with interactive Virtual RealityPanoramas. The project started in 1996 and is updated almost every week, so welcome to check it On-line! This presentation is a part of work in progress. Today it consists of 3610 Virtual Reality Panoramas, 1283 high resolution full screen QTVR-s and more than 16.000 photos (also wallpapers in three standard resolutions), which is about 80 % (hm..?) of the project (Slovenia Landmarks only) . By Slovenian artist Bostjan Burger.

Frantisek Staud

homunculus — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 19:30:11 -0800

Travel photographs by Frantisek Staud.