The Field Guide

Finding the best photography locations in a new city often requires extensive research across scattered sources like blogs, forums, and social media.

Photographers needed a dedicated platform that centralised high-quality, community-validated location guides with essential details like best times to shoot, access info, costs, and maps.

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Build an interactive global photography guide where users could:

• Discover the best photography locations in major cities

• Contribute their own favourite spots with details and images

• Vote & discuss to surface the most valuable locations

• Filter & explore spots by photography style, location type, and accessibility

I designed and built The Field Guide, a platform offering curated city-based photography guides enriched by community contributions. Each location page featured:

• A hero image showcasing the spot

• Detailed metadata including best times to visit, access info, cost, and website links

• An interactive map with Street View integration for visual scouting

• A reference gallery of user-submitted photos

• A comment section for discussion, tips, and Q&A

Each city had a grid and map view, allowing photographers to browse locations visually or filter by categories like architecture, landscape, night, street, and portrait photography. Upvoting ensured the best locations surfaced organically.

As the sole founder and designer, I executed everything—from user research and UX/UI design to front-end development and content curation—resulting in a highly interactive, visually driven platform tailored to photographers worldwide.