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Still asking my self this question to understand why people looking more on some of my pictures than on others. Last pictures I had a deeper look at, was my contribution for the 07-07-07 Group on flickr. You can find the group here:www.flickr.com/groups/07_07_07/

Here and on flickr I posted the same 21 shots taken on that specific day. A large variety of nature, people, landscape or more abstract ones. In color, bw, or toned somehow. All of them you can find here:

www.ipernity.com/search/...

Down to the subway station

As one could expect, some are more appreciated than others. But which pictures are most popular is almost the same flickr and ipernity. Especially the most popular/interesting on of them is the same on both sites. It's the one you can see here. It's the first one of the series and the one which is far ahead counting faves or comments on both sites. In flickr it stayed for some time on the front page of explore, here it you find if still on the start page.

This is no exception, 4 others are also on the same place in this rankings, 3 differ by one position, 6 by three , 2 by four and five, respectively. Only 2 differ by 10 places and one by 13 (which is caused by reaching explore frontpage on flickr, which always boosts interestingness). So statistically the popularity/interestingness ranking is the same on both sites.

'81'

And that's in spite of the different user/contact groups on places. Here it's more centered on Germany or Europe, there it's far beyond that limits. So cultural differences seem not to have so much influence on the first glance. So what is that determines the ranking? What is it, what makes a picture like that above popular everywhere, and a picture like the one on the left unpopular (it's number 18 on flickr and number 21 here) everywhere?

Every comment on the two pictures here, that would clarify a little bit, what makes the one popular (good?) and the other one unpopular (bad?) for you, I would highly appreciate.