WELCOME to
PLATEs Pictured In Estonia page
Some words about this page in December 2006
My name is Indrek and i'm from Estonia - small country in Northern Europe - one of the three Baltic states. I have been interested in car number plates for about 10 years from now. I never made any plate pictures or counted them since i bought my first digital photo camera in 2003. One more year passed and i decided to start taking pictures of foreign cars license plates i see in Estonia. Those pictures form main collection of my license plate photos today. I spotted my first car number plate pictures in summer 2004. When i visit other countries i try to get photos of license plate types i still don't have in my main collection. My special interest is different symbols on number plates- flags, coats-of-arms, maps etc..
Since i had many pictures of license plates in my computer i decided to open a web page where i can share these pictures with people who are interested in this topic from all over the world. And so www.platepie.com was opened in mid-August 2005. This webpage has changed a lot since i opened it. First test version of this page looked something like this. I constantly update my page trying to make it more and more user-friendly. In summer 2006 - many poor quality pictures i started this page with have been removed since i'm interested in high picture quality. Exceptions sometimes made only for "one of a kind" pictures.
I think that Estonia is a good place to live with such a hobby. Some reasons can be found here. I never believed to see plates from 48 different countries in Estonia within two first years of taking photographs. I hope i can celebrate 50th country in my main collection of car number photos in 2007. Making this page has been a lot of fun and many exciting moments out there - in the cities and on the roads of Estonia. I hope you will enjoy my site.
Submissons of different plate pictures from site visitors are also welcome. You can submit photos or give me feedback about this site to my e-mail address:
indrek@platepie.com
But now-
Less talk and more action.
I'm also member of Europlate organization since 27.01.2006
I use Canon Powershot S3 IS digital camera to bring top quality pictures for my site.
Platepie index of contents:
License plate pictures taken in Estonia - Countries page
License plate pictures taken in other countries - Countries page
Submitted pictures - Countries page
Collections of provincial shields and coats of arms on license plates
Estonian license plates - history and today
Statistics (all foreign plates seen in Estonia between 11.2005 and 11.2006)
Latest update: 12.03.2008
platepie.com license plate picture count is: 525
Some of flags and coats-of-arms used for this page are taken from - Flags of the world and www.civicheraldry.com