Placing oblique photos on the map

Nov 20, 2018 | MLP News

By Julie Fortin and Michael Whitney   [This post also appears on the Landscapes in Motion blog]   The Mountain Legacy Project often uses the term “oblique photo” to describe the images we deal with, but what exactly does “oblique...

Field Notes: Stepping off the beaten path

Aug 8, 2018 | MLP News, Notes from the Field

By Sonia Voicescu and Karson Sudlow   [This blog post also appears on the Landscapes in Motion website.]   The Repeat Photography Field Crew has been hard at work scaling mountains to capture repeat photographs of images taken a century ago. They’ve checked...

Meet the Summer 2018 Field Crew!

Jul 3, 2018 | MLP News, Notes from the Field

[This blog post was written by Sonya Odsen, from the Outreach and Engagement Team of Landscapes in Motion. This post is a slightly modified version of the one that appears on the Landscapes in Motion website.]   July already?! You know what that means! The...

What’s up with the piles of rocks on mountaintops?

Jun 11, 2018 | MLP News

The significance of cairns for the Mountain Legacy Project’s field work [This blog post also appears on the Landscapes in Motion website.]   As the Mountain Legacy Project team prepares to head out into the field, they are training new field staff how to...

Everything seen from the top of a mountain

Apr 12, 2018 | Historic photos, MLP News

Editor’s Note, April 25th, 2018: Alex Hakonson has an update to this article – he has located the stations where William Ogilvie stood when he took the images detailed in this post. Alex has created an image taken from Google Earth with the photo plate...