Google Earth

Garstang Basin, Lancaster Canal, originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

On a wet and cold Sunday evening over Christmas I discovered an excellent way of convincing myself that taking photographs is not just a pointless waste of digital memory.
Google Earth, that invaluable resource of badly lined up satellite photographs, now has images taken on the ground, marked by a blue dot, or a camera symbol. Clicking the marker opens the image, hosted by Panoramio.
These images are uploaded by individual photographers, having been reviewed and approved by Google.
On discovering this I uploaded a set of pictures to Panoramio, including this one of Garstang Basin, 'mapped' and tagged them and waited for a few weeks for the review and approval process (which seems a bit hit and miss).
Rather pleasingly, this, and several of my other submissions, were approved and now adorn the satellite images.
Almost certainly anorak vanity, but it keeps me out of the pub.