Street View transformed (photos)

Aaron Hobson isn't the only photographer whose imagination has been captured by Google Street View. But unlike Doug Rickard, Michael Wolf, Jon Rafman, and, no doubt, others, Hobson isn't especially interested in Street View's documentary and photojournalistic qualities. His work leans more toward the atmospheric and ethereal, in part because he manipulates the images he culls from Street View.

Using Photoshop, Hobson bumps up highlights, deepens shadows, adjusts colors, and stitches together different images to create panoramic shots. By the time he's finished, the Street View provenance of the photos has become anything but apparent.

Hobson's "Cinemascapes - Street View Edition" project, which took four years to assemble, depicts actual spots on the globe. But the photographer hopes it also takes viewers to "enchanted and remote lands." For more on Hobson and the project, see the standalone introduction to this slideshow: "Google Street View gets photographic makeover."

In this shot we see a row of stone houses in Inverallochy, Scotland.