Google Street View Virtual Business Tour for House of Shaves Barbershop in Jacksonville, Florida.

Hey, folks. I was recently contacted to shoot for Jacksonville's best barbershop, House of Shaves Barbershop in the Southside area. If you're new to Jacksonville or looking for a new barber, head over to House of Shaves Babershop for some of the best service in Jacksonville. If Southside is too far, they've just open a new location at Riverside in the TIAA Building next to Arepa Please.

If you're looking to have your building captured for Google's StreetView Virtual Business Tour or if you know of any historical buildings that need to be preserved please let me know in the comments below or send me an email at hello@georgemoua.com.

An Unexpected Issue with a Recent Google Street View Virtual Tour

I ran into an unexpected issue on a recent client’s tour. There was an earlier tour at the same location that was causing connection issues with my client’s tour. The fix was rather simple; delete both tours and re-upload my client’s tour. Once we were able to get that done in roughly 24 hours my client’s tour was up and running perfectly.

This should have been simple. Locate the previous photographer and ask them to remove the earlier tour for the company that previously occupied my client’s location. Then delete and re-upload my client’s tour. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. Unfortunately, the previous photography would not help -- at all. Just said they hadn’t logged into their Google Street View account in ages. So left without direct access to the previous tour we resorted to manual reporting the entire tour for the Street View moderators to review and take down. Thankfully, my client was the original owner of the previous business at this location so we still had access to the previous business’ Google My Business account. From there we reported the entire tour twice and within 24 hours the previous tour was taken down. I deleted and re-uploaded my client’s tour and lo and behold in 24 hours it was connected and working like it should have.

From start to finish, it took about three weeks to resolve the issue. Mainly it was the waiting for a reply from the previous photographer that ended up being of no help. If you ever encounter this issue, I hope you have a better response from the previous photographer or access to the previous business’ Google My Business account to report from or it’s going to take a long while to resolve the conflicting tour issue.

Google Streetview Virtual Business Tour for Ida Claire | Jacksonville, Florida

I recently had the opportunity to capture Ida Claire in Jacksonville, Florida. I was pleasntly surprized by their Americana decor. Old sewing machines, typewriters, string bulb lights, and old tchotchkes. They even have "Bring Your Own Vinyl" nights. I'm going to have to go to one of these nights with a few of my favorite vinyl records.

If you're looking to have your building captured for Google's StreetView Virtual Business Tour or if you know of any historical buildings that need to be preserved please let me know in the comments below or send me an email at hello@georgemoua.com.

The Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Jacksonville, Florida.

I recently had the opportunity to capture the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Jacksonville, Florida. I’ve always been fascinated by religious architecture. To me, it helped early civilizations excel in technology. From the rock cut temples of India to the Gothic cathedrals of old Europe, religious architecture has always served to, either, apply or create new technologies to build bigger and more extravagant temples of worship.

I reached out to Patricia at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception and asked if we could schedule a time to preserve the interior and exterior of the Basilica digitally. With the okay from Patricia and Father Blair, I was able to capture this historical Basilica in Jacksonville.

If you're looking to have your building captured for Google's StreetView or if you know of any historical buildings that need to be preserved please let me know in the comments below or send me an email at hello@georgemoua.com.

A little history on the Basilica

The Basilica of the Immaculate Conception was built in 1905 to replace the second building that was destroyed during the Great Fire of 1901 (the first building destroyed by Union troops during the American Civil War). Designed by Utica, New York based architect, M. H. Hubbard in the Late Gothic Revival style. If you would like more information head over to their website.

As of 2013, it has been designated a minor basilica due to its history. It is also a parish church in the Diocese of St. Augustine.