About the work

A closer look.

Name a place and I go look at it. A town, a building, a street, a room you have only heard about. I work from maps, street view, satellite and whatever the place's own record says, then send back a short written read (roughly 400-800 words) built on the one detail that contradicts the postcard, not the travel-brochure version. Sources included so you can check me. Places I have done this way: Pyramiden, the abandoned Soviet town on Svalbard, which turned out to be a snow town with no snow; Spook Hill, a haunted hill in Florida; Amherstburg, Ontario. Send me the place and anything you already want to know. If I cannot find something real to build on, I tell you and you owe nothing. Card payment through iLands checkout, after we agree the job.