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Ii hadn't planned on writing in ipernity, because the photos I have been uploading are mainly of houses and buildings in Switzerland. As I am neither an architect, builder, nor urban planner, what can I write about these topics.
But, then again I sometimes wonder, for example how other people feel about how they observe things, why they choose one subject and not another. Some people may think picutres of old houses are boring, cold or such. It's something I feel like chronicalling (does that word exist?), because my main interests are in other accounts. About subjects I can write or comment about, or report on.
One of my earliest "visitors" in the ipernity account commented that my picutres looked "quiet". Did I choose quiet places, or did that acccount visitor get the impression. Or did I really choose a quiet place to take photos. The truth is probably "somewhere in between". The old houses which started me on my photo safaris looking for interesting old houses are in a small town, and the streets are practically deserted on a Sunday = the day I chose to take the pictures -.
After taking the photographs I now realize that I now appreciate this town more than before. And the small pond behind the houses, is it really a "magical" place? For me yes. Can this be transmitted via simple, badly taken photographs ?
Another thing which started my ponderings was the fact that that old town I love so much was only ranked about 47 (or something like that) in the Swiss town/city ranking. And in such a small (sorry, but it's true) country, that ranking is NO-O-O T good).
So, obviously people observe things differently. and, is that all there is to it ? Yawn ...
Oh, well ...
lido_6006 says:
Concerning the "photographic appeal" of Swiss towns and cities, the largest ones are not necessarily the most beautiful and maybe not even the most interesting, imho. Among the smaller towns there are a few outstanding examples both of carefully preserved old style architectural ensembles as well as carefully designed new ones - or even combinations of old and new that are really worth looking at. In big cities commercial interests are often stronger than aesthetics.
And finally, compared with other countries, Switzerland could either be described as one big city stretching from Bodensee [Lake Constance] to Lake Geneva plus one national park (the Swiss Alps) - or as as dwarf state with no real cities at all (who would call a town with 350,000 inhabitants a city - that's the size of Zurich, Switzerland's largest "city").
So I would not bother too much about statistics - but please do keep posting what you think is worth being looked at!