Summer Cartography Club
Last summer, students in the PAZ Summer Camp at P.S. 24 formed the Cartography Club. We learned about different kinds of maps and set out to create a photo map of Sunset Park. We have all sorts of content for the website, but I haven’t gotten around to scanning it all in yet. In the mean time, check out the photos on google maps.
They took about a thousand photos on different kinds of cameras (a couple point-and-shoot digitals, a 35mm SLR, a medium format Holga, and a Mino Flip for video). I scanned in the negatives and they selected photos to put on the website. We also have map overlays, student bios, and videos.
The aerials shots were created by floating the Mino Flip into the sky on about 40 tethered balloons. The wind kept blowing the balloons down and shaking the camera, but we were able to find some good frames in the videos. The kids said they asked everyone if they could take their photo for their website, but if you’re in the photos and you prefer not to be, let me know and I’ll take it down.
Awesome aerial photographs. (If only I had this much fun when I was in third grade.)