2022
McDonald's, Fast food restaurant, Landstuhl, Germany
I had just moved to Germany and was traveling around trying out a McDonald's in different countries because the menus are different. I was having a hard time finding the menus online since I don't know German, so I started uploading pictures of the menus for other users. While this is definitely not my best photo, it's a great example of Google Maps picture that benefits the user!
Caption: Star photo by @JamesHogg of The Range uploaded onto Google Maps on 25 February 2020 and showing star views of 5104110 as of 26 February 2023
The Range, York, England
My Star Photo is one of the storefront of a local hobby/homeware store called The Range in the city nearest to the village where I live - definitely not my best photo on the map, but certainly my most viewed.
Rutherford Jewellers, Melbourne, Australia
This is a photo of a well-known jeweller in the Melbourne CBD on Collins Street. I think it's just a really functional photo. I certainly do have far more interesting photos with less views.
Pure South Kitchen is a restaurant on the GR2 River Level Southgate Precinct, 3 Southgate Ave, Southbank VIC, Australia 3006 showing 7,066,626 views as of 18 July, 2023. This image was taken using an Apple Iphone 11 Pro on June 26, 2021 at 9:15 pm when walking past the restaurant.
Greenhouse People Wychbold, Droitwich, England
So this is a screen clip of my current star picture, showing one of the greenhouses / out house the company offer, when I visited the garden centre I decided to have a casual walk around and found this one very interesting and with the sun setting it looked like somewhere I could relax, so I did a point and shoot on my Huawei p20 mate pro, this might not be my best picture I have taken but its defiantly my most viewed.
Here's a link to this POI on Maps and here is a second link to a sperate picture I took about a year later
Caption : Star photo of @amandhayal uploaded 4 years ago from a famous sweet shop in Pink City Jaipur located in state Rajsthan of India. This is updated on 15th March 2023
la Fraschetta, Rome, Italy
My star photo. I took this photo in a typical restaurant in Rome. I was impressed by the strands of garlic hanging from the ceiling and, before exit from the restaurant, I took this photo to remember the ambient.
This photo was taken with the phone Google Nexus 5X.
Ah HA! My latest updated star photo is ALSO a random hardware store from Massachusetts! So many random views regardless! 😍
Siruvani Waterfalls, Coimbatore, INDIA -
This is a photo of the amazing waterfalls located in the forest in Coimbatore. Requires a walk of about 2 kms from the parking to witness the beautiful view of the waterfall. This photo was taken in 2017 during m y visit to the falls when I was based in Coimbatore. It was a wonderful experience to take all my family to visit Siruvani waterfalls.
I took this photo a number of years back in 2018 when starting out as a local guide and didnt take much notice of it. It was nothing special, just a store front picture which has become easily my star photo accounting for half of all total photo views!
