Hello, it is with a heavy heart that I have to announce the upcoming shutdown of Vintage Air Photos. My hosting provider has increased rates for storage and the very large images this website uses now cost more in a month than the website makes per year. I will try to keep the website up for several more weeks but I imagine Vintage Air Photos will go offline mid-October. If there are any images you would like to keep viewing, now would probably be a good time to make a purchase. Thanks for all the views over the years.
During the first few months of 2021 a WordPress update was automatically applied to the Vintage Air Photos site which caused the site to become unresponsive. The site was completely broken and I was no longer able to even login. I couldn’t even put up a “site broken” page and soon the site was even…
Hi everyone, there have been some pretty major changes to the Vintage Air Photos website over the past few days. The site has a new look, an updated zoom plugin which no longer pops up a new window, an updated store front, the star rating system has been updated, the highest rated image list has been…
Well, it turns out that our “seamless” move from one web hosting provider to another didn’t turn out quite as trouble-free as I would have liked. After some modifications we were able to get the site back online, but the Google Earth view feature is no longer working. For now, we have disabled the Google…
As you may have read in our Background Information, there are three flight index books which contain descriptions of all of the photographs. In the past, when someone requests a particular area, I would have to flip through hundreds of handwritten pages hoping to find keywords that might indicate I was in the right area. Now,…
We’re excited to announce a new feature today which allows you to open a similar view of a vintage image in Google Earth. Now you can see how an area looks today and compare it to the historical image. At the bottom of the Zoom window, you’ll find a link to open the similar view…
Just a quick note to let you know we’ve updated the map view to reflect the direction that the photograph was taken. This way, if you’re looking for a particular area, you can use the direction of the icon to see which way the camera was facing and get a better idea of which photo…
There will be a new category of posts for news and general updates which can be accessed from the top menu or from the “News” category. The first update I have is regarding paper prints. I’m going to be offering high quality paper prints for sale along with the digital images which are currently available….
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