Scenic Concepts Aerial Photography

[Cycledude]

My folks farmed for 50 years and bought quite a few aerial photos, I enjoy looking at them and seeing the progress they made
Just tried looking for pictures on scenic concepts website but they don’t have any pictures from Taylor county Wisconsin, a couple other counties I tried also don’t have any pictures, they are supposed to notify me if they ever start showing pictures from Taylor county.

 

[Duds13]

BTW, if you wanted to hire a drone, and have the pictures printed, it likely would be that much or more. Different if you own the drone, or have a friend with one, but for the to drive out, fly it, and even just send digital files, I would expect to pay $300+

Well, I'm not in the market for an aerial photograph of my property. I know people with drones who would do it though.

It was just odd to me that a complete stranger drove up my long driveway to my house with the picture. Seems like it was quite common back in the day though.

 

[paulsharvey]

Not apples to apples; but i have considered ordering a 24x36 nice print of my properties survey and hanging it, but i would probably want to have it layered with a aerial too. Ive seen some Old surveys that would look good framed too, stuff from the 1920s ect,

 

[LHF2019]

That was pretty common in my area 20-30 years ago. It was always a guy in aviator style sunglasses.
I guess the value in your current sales person is the image being printed (presumably larger than a typical laser printer can print) and framed.
I spend a fair amount of time on Google Earth measuring fields and just looking around. It's kinda fun going through the historical imagery to track changes over the years.

I recently did the Google Earth history as Mr. RjCorazza mentioned.

Amazing how much change in just 40 years (talking circa 1985, which to me seems not that long ago) to today!

Acres of wide open cow grazing pastures, now grown up "woods" and thickets...

This site is interesting because you can do a compare of the years available and slide the bar. Prints are also available and very tempting as I enjoy the history.

Historic Aerials: Viewer

www.historicaerials.com

 

[riptides]

Want to be alarmed? Check out your property tax office.

My county has a system with a feature called "eagleview". They have every side of the compass and all buildings available, for public view. You can count the window panes in the pictures.

Historic views available too, on some parcels.

I personally find it, disturbing.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

Definitely seems like an antiquated way to make money in this day and age. I wonder if they are still riding the coattails of the last of the low tech Boomers still out there.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

Want to be alarmed? Check out your property tax office.

My county has a system with a feature called "eagleview". They have every side of the compass and all buildings available, for public view. You can count the window panes in the pictures.

Historic views available too, on some parcels.

I personally find it, disturbing.

Not much different than Google Street view. You can tell Google you do not want your house on street view and they will blur it out.

 

[LHF2019]

Not much different than Google Street view. You can tell Google you do not want your house on street view and they will blur it out.

Years ago there was a picture of my grandmother mowing her yard on the street view. It was decided not to show her because she would have a hard time understanding the how and why it was there

 

[HawkinsHollow]

HAHA! Yeah, I could imagine! They catch all kinds of crazy stuff on that street view.

 

[bigtiller]

Can you talk these folks down on their asking price ? ANd what do they do with the pictures of properties that aren,t purchased ?

The last one I bought, in 2014, the guy wanted big money for a way to put it on my computer and then do fancy computer things with it.
I countered offered with $50 for what's in your hand.

He balked at first but finally accepted.