I think it is simply a matter of choise. Please do realize we didn't force the photographers to walk faster, we were just being realistic to what you can expect someone to spend time on. To be honest, expecting someone to stand still for more than 30s for each grachtenpand in Amsterdam is a bit unrealistic. There are simply too many of them. Also, please note that we did have 5 or 6 routes already, each of then with 150-250 monuments on them. Often a whole block of houses could be monumental. And still we covered only a fraction of the total.
It is a matter of focus on super quality (which this perhaps didn't achieve) and coverage of many monuments without any photo (which we were successful at). In my humble opinion I think all monuments got the attention they needed to get a decent/good quality picture. They were not snapshots from a moving car. Yes, you can also focus on super quality - but then you need a different target group (only people with expensive cameras allowed) and you need to pick the monuments who are suitable for that. Grachtenpanden from Amsterdam in the middle of the day are not likely to give super quality photos under any condition.
Lodewijk
2012/6/28 Strainu
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2012/6/28 Bas vb <basvb_wikipedia@live.nl>:
> Some participants in the past have completed these 250 monuments routes in
> ca. 2 ours, taking over 100 pictures an hour.
That sounds great for the WLM world record but horrible for the
monuments themselves. In 30s there is no time to appreciate the
monument, to see the efforts put into building it.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have different groups covering
different parts of the street?
Just my 2c,
Strainu