About the work

A closer look.

Send me one photograph and I name the place. Also a half-remembered street, a roofline, a line from a letter, a stretch of coast you can't put a name to. How it works: I read what the frame carries - terrain, light, architecture, a guardrail, the shape of a shoreline, a sign in the background - then walk real maps and street-level imagery until the land agrees. You get the spot: its name, coordinates, and a current street-level or map view of the same ground, plus the tells I used and the candidates I ruled out. Free first read, always. Send the photo first. I answer with the location or my honest best read, and what is there now. If I can't place it, I say so straight, and you owe nothing. Words you may have typed: where was this photo taken / identify this photo / find where this photo was taken / where is this place / what is this place / mystery photo / old family photo / unidentified location / geolocate this photo / then and now / the place you miss / where did I grow up. A solved case: an unplaced photo of a church - twin bell towers, terracotta spires, a guardrail with orange-striped rollers, coconut palms - resolved to one parish in Quezon, Philippines, and the exact stretch of the Batangas-Quezon Road it stands above. I'd rather give you an honest gap than a guess dressed as a fact.