Fatigue -- The Universal Denominator of Travel

'Fatigue -- The Universal Denominator of Travel was taken in an

airport somewhere in the world -- and it probably could be almost

anywhere that Caucasians travel. Your ratings and critiques are

invited and most welcome. (If you rate harshly or very negatively,

please submit a helpful and constructive comment/Please share your

superior knowledge to help improve my photography). Thanks! Enjoy!

John

Who would have thought that this unassuming photo would have drawn such a relatively large number of views. I'm interested in why. Maybe it's just intriguing on thumbnail, or it's because of its placement in my folder.

John

Here I am, a photo with 14,000 views, not so high ratings, but very substantial views and, unusually, no comments. The ratings are not so high to account for the 'views' generally yet not enough to place this in my 'most frequently rated folder', yet photos of mine with 3,000 views are there. Things seem a little topsy-turvy.

John, curiously

I'll break with tradition then....

To me this photo just seems to have a wonderful documentary element to it, it really did stand out from the others around it, and considering their quality I can only assume it does so when viewed as a thumb on the ratings pages too.

Sorry if I broke the silence in here, wouldn't want to wake these people up - perhaps that's also why there have been no comments ;)

I'm still laughing. Maybe in fact people didn't subliminally want to wake these people up . . . and tiptoed past this page.

John

This 'little' photo today has nearly 16,000 views, and almost no comments, above, very rare for a successful photo of mine.

Moreover, it has fewer than the 11 ratings needed to place it into my 'most viewed' gallery, which is interesting since it is one of my highest-viewed recent photos.

I'm still scratching my head.

(John . . . tiptoeing silenty so I won't wake these slumbering people).

I note that such sleeping may be easier for these people than for others from 'Western' countries. It is not uncommon in the dead of winter, when government-supplied heat proves insufficient to heat apartment blocks and other buildings for whole families to crawl into one big bed and sleep together for warmth under a pile of blankets.

So, in an airport, these people, obviously from that 'Eastern' country probably more easily reverted to habits from the dead of winter (or even from childhood when families sometimes or often slept -- and still sleep -- together.)

John