Hi Tomasz, thank you for that good news.
Since we have pictures for 90% of the 37,000 monuments in Austria, we try to encourage quality images. We got a lot of details and close ups of statues and paintings this year for WLM, and on the other hand there were many pictures showing how buildings fit into the landscape or are situated in their environment. You might see this trend in our prize winning photos of 2013 too:
Quantity and quality do not have to be contradictions, because out of a lot of photos you can get a lot of high quality pictures. We got even a slightly higher amount of photos in 2013 than last year, but the amount of photographers decreased. The photographers “spezialized” somehow in monuments and sent many pictures showing the monuments from different angles. Many of them got support by Wikimedia Austria with photo equipment and photo workshops.
It was good luck that the 2,000th quality picture from WLM 2012 showed a building from Austria, but all the organizers and photographers of WLM should feel proud by that big amount of high quality photos.
I am shure, that User:Geiserich77 reads this mailing-list, but I will inform him anyway. J
Kind regards from
Beppo
Gesendet: Freitag, 06. Dezember 2013 um 15:14 Uhr
Von: "Tomasz W. Kozlowski" <tomasz@twkozlowski.net>
An: "Wiki Loves Monuments" <wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org>
Betreff: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Quality images from Wiki Loves Monuments 2012
Hi!
I am happy to announce that today, almost fourteen months after its end,
Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 has reached a beautiful milestone in terms of
Quality images; there are now exactly two thousand (2,000) files in
[[Category:Quality images from Wiki Loves Monuments 2012]]!
The lucky milestone picture is a photograph of a house at 41 Mark St in
the Austrian municipality of Neufelden, Upper Austria, taken by Michael
Kranewitter who goes by the user name of [[User:Geiserich77]].