Travel photography made easy with Google

It’s only over the last few days that I’ve started playing with Google Earth in any serious way and I’m starting to get quite excited about its future potential.

For example, here’s an, admittedly ropey, picture I took in Italy last week

and here’s what I managed to come up with after no more than two minutes fiddling on Google Earth.

At this rate, five years down the line I’ll be able to set up a clip art gallery featuring people I know, a few dead dogs and a selection of charming indigenous poor people clutching their babies, chuck all my photographic equipment away and spend my evenings cutting and pasting them into backdrops generated on the Internet. Marvellous