100 streets!

With Appenzellerweg, I reached 100 published streets! This feels like quite the milestone.

It feels like a good time to do a "personal best-of" of the pictures I took over these first few months, and to reflect a bit. I went through all the posts and I picked my favorites. I didn't really try set a limit, so that's a fairly large best-of, but I like that it ends up showing many facets of my city. Collecting this best-of has been wonderful, because it made me revisit the places I've visited, and I actually remember taking all of these! More than the intrinsic quality of the picture (I'll let you be the judge of that), I'm enthusiastic about remembering the feeling of taking these pictures (which usually involved giggling with "oooh this is going to be a cool picture!").

I also have a few thoughts that I want to share after some time spent on this project.

It's really quite ambitious, and it takes a lot of time. Taking the pictures is one thing; editing and publishing is more work than I predicted. I'm getting reasonably efficient at both of these, mostly by embracing "good enough" (in particular for the picture editing).
Writing alt texts is a large portion of that publishing time. Again, I'm getting faster/more efficient (especially when it comes to dealing with the double "Wordpress/Wikimedia Commons" workflow), but that's still significant work, that I'm not sure I'm doing well enough.
I learnt more stuff than I expected too! I learnt a bit more about flora, and about architecture terms (may I recommend Flora Incognita, as well as the Wikipedia article about the List of roof shapes?). And, obviously, about a few local people and a bit more German (and Swiss German!)
I'm very grateful to the amount of data provided by the city of Zürich, particularly on their map: being able to pinpoint a tree or a work of public art is very, very useful.
I'm still enjoying this tremendously. I will admit it's been a bit harder to go get pictures recently due to a/ winter weather b/ winter daylight length c/ winter fatigue (sense a theme yet?), but I never regret going there once I'm there.
I still have no idea how to deal with long streets. I shot Albisriederstrasse over several outings as I was moving around it, and that's probably the way it's going to work for long streets in general, but it feels harder to capture "correctly". I probably need to let go of that goal and go with what I get :)
Some streets are more challenging than others. In particular, while very residential areas typically don't have much interesting larger views, they usually have small fun details, but that might be infringing on the privacy of people, so it feels better to avoid it. I'm not sure what is the right balance here.
I was initially striving to post once a day: this is clearly not happening right now. Which means: at the current rate, this project is going to take even longer than I initially expected it to take if I want to complete it. I'm fine with that, we'll see where we're at when it's not fun anymore ;)
I'm definitely more comfortable with having the next few streets (ideally at least 7, that's "a week of posts" for daily posts) shot at all times. I've had an issue recently where I couldn't post because I just didn't have the pictures (and no time/weather to go get them), and I put myself more pressure than I would have wanted on that.

Okay, I promised pictures and, instead, I wrote a wall of text - get some pictures! They are all linked to their corresponding street - enjoy the visit!