I started 75CentralPhotography in 2007. Since then, I’ve shared a photo every day for, as of this writing, almost 6,400 days straight (you can visit the colophon to see an up-to-date photo count), in addition to photos in our various galleries on the site that we don’t count towards that “Fine Daily Photo” number.

Over the years, I’ve slowly developed an approach of openness and transparency around my photos. Whereas a lot of photographers zealously guard their EXIF data or locations, I’ve added tools to the site to allow visitors to view this information, only “fuzzing” location data on occasion for privacy reasons or because, for one reason or another, geotagging information isn’t available for that particular photo.

Some examples of this transparency are the EXIF data that is included with every photo:

The map of the photo’s location:

Along with the raw elevation, coordinates, Geohash and location of the photo:

We even allow you to view this location on OpenStreetMap or Google Maps to make it that much easier to explore the area or navigate to the location yourself, along with viewing any other photos we have from the nearby area:

A recent addition to this approach to photography transparency was the addition, earlier this year, of Advanced Photo Details, a way to view all the EXIF information for a photo, along with ITPC data and a more-detailed map:

Now, we’re introducing weather information for photos at the time the photo was captured. Going forward, new photos will feature weather information along with the location information, so you can see how cold or hot or rainy or snowy it was when we braved the elements to make a masterpiece:

This information will be available on most photos going forward and will be slowly backfilled on photos that are already on the site.