www.earthalbum.com

Planet Earth: Truth, Beauties, and Facades

This blog is beautifully designed and architecture to capture its essence, though there are minor issues afoot in my opinion. The jaw-dropping corpus of collaborative collections of photos and descriptive writings alongside with travel information are the key components of this webpage. Any human beings interested in other parts of the planet earth might benefit from the earthalbum; however, the presentation of photo collections is purely subjective, if you are prone to be graphically satisfied. Rather, I see this web as a recreation of the planet earth. If you want to join the chat more or less relating to this blog, click the intro greeting on the center top. Lots of savvy/groovy folks discuss gentle correction, tech stuff, politics, philosophical musings (or reverie?), convulsive enthusiasm yet controlled, etc.

1) Your best guess at intended audience:

Those who are interested in travel info, traveling, graphic layouts/design, cultural
activities, the other part of the world, documentary albums, and those who are simply
curious about what it would look like on the other part of life on earth, etc.

2) Usefulness of content:

It is useful to a greater extent that this blog contains so much information in particular areas such as travel guide, restaurant, photos of locales, descriptive journals written by photographers, etc. Especially, as the blog name speaks of itself, you can find fascinating cultural/regional photo collections that help you vividly visualize where you want to travel if you plan to. While surfing around the page, it dawned on me that the content is purely subjective: angles of each scene, particular places, temporal/spatial setting, and what not, that are strongly affective elements of each photo. So a potential traveler like you might construe the presentation as the way the photo collections present on the blog. Often times, things are not as they seem. Out of pure curiosity, I clicked Korea and saw the pictures that did not represent Korean settings at all. If you are not from Korea, you wouldn’t notice them. Aside, on the right side of the blog appears several travel information whenever you click each country or region. Although it provides many useful travel guides, restaurants, hotels etc, it comes across as “commercially-coated.” You might find a better deal else where.

Although the blog consists of wonderful information and beautiful legendary photo collections, alas, the subjective viewpoint of photo collections and commercialized information might put you in danger of howling “woe is me,” I mean, if you expect something realistic for your future reference.

However, this site is fabulous: especially if you are a big fan of youtube, it has youtube earth album too in accordance with the region/country/etc.

BTW, McDonalds are ubiquitous on the planet: Another global fashioning.

3) Consistency of design:

Consistency is amazing. First thing you see on the blog is this miniature version of our planet earth dotted with each country name and state/region/providence. You will see about earth album/USA edition/Japan edition/Youtube edition on the right side of the top. On the top center show the image series mostly apropos to the place with the photographer’s odyssey writing upon each click of different regions. The travel info pertaining to your selection of each place is conveniently located on the right side column throughout. The right side corner above the photo series consistently has “filter images by keyword” search engine. When you click the search engine drop-down menu, it is surprisingly sectioned into “mountain/city/food/mcdonalds.”

4) Ease of Navigation:

When I first saw the page, I clicked the intro on the top center instead of each region/country on the planet earth. It routed me to the blog discussion board that made me wander around a bit. About two or three minutes later, I traced back to earthalbum and started clicking every and each place that I could avariciously sneak a peek at. It was easy to navigate around what I wanted to search because the design consistency made it easier—I knew what to expect and got comfortable of each section such as photo series, graphically presented place, travel info, and search engine.