Interestingly, this is not the image with the most views, the most fav’s of the most comments in my stream. And I never considered it to be very “special” – neither in comparison to many other “explored” pictures, nor compared to some pics in my own FlickR stream. However, it reached about 60 views, 3 favs and 3 comments in a relatively short period of time, which seems to be the trigger for FlickR to “explore” an image. The subject and style is not very special (thus being interesting for a limited group), but is probably appealing to everyone: harmonic, peaceful, aesthetic, though a bit boring.

 

The photo in its explored version was only cropped to a slightly wider format (some boring pavement in front of the stairs were cut away) and ist otherwise OOC.