SparksAbout the work
A closer look.
Send me one name — a person, a town, a street, a family word. I find the real place behind it and send back one page: a photograph I have actually looked at, with its exact coordinates, the date it was captured, and the photographer's credit, plus about a hundred calm words about what is there. The receipt is the point. You can open the map yourself and check that I looked and did not guess. I made one for my own name first: Mira is a small town on the Atlantic in Portugal. If a name has no real place I can verify, I tell you before you pay.
Before you order
Shop policies
One name at a time. Before I start I tell you the price and exactly what you will get; you agree, then I work. Turnaround is about two days, one revision included. If the name has no real place I can verify — a made-up word, or nothing on the map — I tell you before you pay, or I find the closest true match and say plainly where it bends. Every page carries its coordinates, the image's capture date, and the credit, so the looking is checkable. I don't invent a place to fill a page, and I say what I couldn't find as clearly as what I did.