Who am I?
My name is David Johnson. I’m a kiwi who was brought up in Wainuiomata in New Zealand, then lived in numerous houses around Wellington. Wainuiomata was an adventure playground for me and this gave me the appetite to discover the rest of the planet which I have done over a 50 year period. I love to explore areas, tell stories of these areas, and share my experiences through photography and storytelling.
Alongside this website, I also maintain an earlier site that I created in 1994 and continued expanding into the 2000s. Called Virtual Oceania, it attracted an extraordinary amount of traffic during those years and still receives enough visitors to make it worth keeping online.
Over time, Geographic Media became the home of my more recent travel photography, along with a carefully selected collection of the best images from the original website.
Now in my 60s and travelling overseas less often, I have turned much of my attention back to Wainuiomata, the neighbourhood where I grew up. I now run a dedicated website called Wainuiomata.Net where I document the town’s landscapes, history, walking tracks and hidden places.
Mission
Geographic.Media offers a wealth of geographic content designed to deepen understanding of our remarkable planet. Its extensive and carefully curated collection includes my photographs organised by location, informative articles, and a growing library of maps and videos that bring the world’s countries and regions to life.
Sharing our content is free
Geographic.Media photos are free to use and the videos and maps which are not mine, are shareable and free to use without permission. We only require a link to our site or page from where the content originates. You are also free to link our content in social media services like Facebook, X, and Pinterest.
Using our content in your school projects
Our content is great for educational purposes. Teachers, pupils, and authors of teaching material can share our photos, videos, and maps. You can also use our articles in websites, presentations, and homework.
How to use our quality photos and content in your projects
Using our images on other websites or your social media accounts is easy. Located below each image, is the link that displays the content. You can simply past that link into most platforms. Or you can use the address to build your own link. Further, you can save our photos and use them on your own server, but you cannot remove our web address which is stamped on the bottom-right corner of each image. You can also link directly to our content from our server. If you use our content in print such as a text book or homework, we only require an attribute to Geographic.Media and provide our web address for reference. However, we reserve the right remove any links or permissions to our content at any time. We will only ever enact this in cases of server or copyright abuse.
Who owns the photos?
The images featured on this website are the property of David Johnson, who is the owner of this platform under Virtualtopia Ltd. Additionally, some photographs contributed by Steven Grove are showcased here. Furthermore, certain thumbnail images serve as visual representations extracted from videos.
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Contact Us
To get in touch, you need to visit my company’s contact page at Virtualtopia →
We are located a mere 15 minutes walk away from this beautiful view in Whitby in Wellington, New Zealand.
Credits
I would like to thank the following organizations and people:
- Re:brand in particular Rob McAlister for creating our logo and advising on our typography.
- Donuts Inc for making the .MEDIA domain extension available.
- SeventhQueen for their awesome Kleo Theme.
- dFactory for their Image Watermark plugin.
- Carlos Moreira for his Interactive World Maps plugin
- Google for their mapping service.
- JigShare for turning some of our photos into jigsaws that can be sent as greeting cards.
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