How Many Artists In Your Favourites?

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Being the anorak that I am, I have analysed what countries all my ‘favourites’ come from and here is this result:

USA 54; UK 29; Canada 13; France 5; Italy 4; Belgium and Netherlands 3 each; Norway, Sweden, Hong Kong and Greece 2; Australia, Spain, Finland, Cyprus, Iceland, Dubai, Poland, Chile, Romania, India, China, Switzerland, Singapore, Taiwan, Denmark, Mexico, Turkey and Austria all on just the one.

What does this show? Well, nothing really!

But I do conclude that the further north you take pictures, the more likely you are to be on my favourites list. Is it because the light is less harsh in those environments? This even works for those living in the USA, but if you happen to live near the Canadian border there is no need to gloat
I have found Canadians and many ethnic Chinese to be particularly excellent photographers, but I don’t know why.

To counter the ‘north’ argument, I just love photos of people with certain skin colourings, particularly those from India and around.

I like to relate to other Brits on here – I love my country and probably just want to see more of it.

Yes, the UK has far more history to photograph than the USA, yet I don’t crave for photos of old castles, churches or cobbled streets. To me, America has so much more uniformity, but that’s only in my eyes.

One final point, I don’t have any Germans on my favourites. Why? There are 80m of them living in a photogenic country.

Answers on a postcard please!

Ray

[troonly]

171 - maybe need to try and whittle out a top ten!

Main problem is having just started a new job I haven't found time to get around and comment! No doubt missing lots of good images.

The wonder of pbase is the range of styles. My favourites span the globe and that's fantastic.

Think I'm going to have to take a days leave to catch up on the comments... if only to reuvinate the number of visits and comments in my own galleries!!

[jude_53]

Ray said:

But I do conclude that the further north you take pictures, the more likely you are to be on my favourites list. Is it because the light is less harsh in those environments? This even works for those living in the USA, but if you happen to live near the Canadian border there is no need to gloat

20 miles from where I live to the border - and only one mile from where I work ... I"m taking it and running

[jeremygood]

I spent some time LATE LATE last night looking through the PBase World gallery section. Pretty interesting, you can choose a country and find photographers and galleries from that region.

I found the pictures of North Korea pretty interesting. Not necessarily great photos, but interesting.

[nomadicdragon]

I think i've got 4 or 5 on my favorities list.. though I think that's mostly because I forget to add my favorite photographers to the list... lol.

[reddishtiger]

57 of all sorts of varieties Out of these, I suppose I have about 10 or so favourite "favorites".

The 57 are split fairly evenly between North America and Europe/Asia/Australia.... I think it is the style of photography that attracts me rather than where they are, although I am interested in seeing different places....

ohhhhh and dont knock castles, churches and cobbles, cos thats what is out of the door!