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This recent post on Flak Photo captured one of the top reasons that I enjoy photographs, in that they can allow your mind a glimpse of a different world even if you cannot travel there yourself. Photography is likely the best-suited art form to fulfill this goal, because unlike painting or drawing, the photographer has to travel to the location in order to get the picture.
The picture in the post I thought was an intriguing choice. It's a square cut out of part of an ocean on a map, with only the word "Ocean" visible. Which ocean it is has been cut out. At first I thought it was a romantic notion of over-sees travel. This bit of the map has been displace from the rest, so there is no knowing where exactly it is from. However, the longitude labels are visible on the bottom with the numbers decreasing to the right, meaning that this cut-out is from west of the Prime Meridian. Given a longitude of 57 degrees, it must be from the Atlantic Ocean. Also, since the longitude labels are visible at the bottom, I'm guessing that Antarctica was not fully represented, and the location in the cut-out is just north of the frozen continent.
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