Hello and Welcome to Hometown Vista! Consider Hometown Vista your new hang out.

This site is about pictures that have a strong connections to a city, town, village or locality. If you have beautiful pictures of a place, its architecture, its artworks, its notable people, its historical places, plants or wildlife native to its environment or anything connected to that place that you like and enjoy sharing, share them with the world and let others know how beautiful and precious that place is.

If the place is your hometown, share with the world and let everybody know how valuable and beautiful it is, whether it is a city as large as Tokyo, Japan or a town as small as Zarafshan, Uzbekistan.

If you have travelled somewhere and were mesmerized by it, or liked something so much that can't wait sharing pictures of, post them and share your appreciation of that locality. Somebody will like them!

Visiting, registering and posting pictures on this website are free of charge and will remain so.

We are looking forward to see your beautiful pictures.

The website works very well on mobile, laptop and desktop devices. Use whichever is more convenient for you.

Our aim is to expand this website and make it a pictorial reference of different localities in various parts of our small and beloved planet.

If you have comments or suggestions, don't hesitate to let us know. We'll be glad to hear from you.

Pictures posted on Hometown Vista want to introduce a city, town, village, locality or neighborhood to the world. If something belongs to a locality, its picture is well worth posting here.

The subject doesn't have to be famous worldwide. It just has to be part of a locality. Not too many people have heard of Maribor Castle, Maribor, Slovenia. Such places are known to few people. Posting pictures of them can potentially make more people appreciate them.

Examples for subjects of pictures include but are not limited to the following:

• Pictures of landmarks, famous or unknown, big or small, historic or modern, natural or man-made.
• Pictures of notable personalities, such as Gabriel José García Márquez from Aracataca, Colombia, or Mexico City, Mexico since he lived there for many years, or Umm Kulthum from Tamay Ez-Zahayra, Egypt.
• If you're an anthropologist living with the bushmen of Kalahari and performing research, or a scientist in Antarctica, you'll sure have a lot of beautiful pictures from there. This site will welcome them.
• Plants or wildlife native to a particular locality, such as koalas which are native to Australia or lemurs which are native to Madagascar.
• Pictures of places you visited in your vacations.

In short, if a pictures is closely associated with a locality and is worth a view, post it here.

Please note that this site does not promote nudity, provocative pictures or ones that depict graphic violence and will remove any such photos without prior notice.

We would ask you to refrain from posting copyrighted material.

The following are just a few mostly common sense guidelines to make your pictures more appealing to the viewer.

• Post good quality pictures. They will attract more viewers.
• The maximum picture size can be 20971520 bytes.
• Post in JPEG or TIFF format so that this website can extract EXIF information. EXIF contains information such as GPS coordinates, make and model of the camera, copyright information, shutter speed, aperture value and ISO speed.
• If you use a post-processing software, make sure it does not remove EXIF or GPS information from the pictures.
• If your camera is equipped with a GPS receiver, enable it when taking a pictures so that viewers can easily find the location on online maps. This website automatically extracts GPS information and shows location of the picture on an interactive Google map.
• Feel free to place a watermark or copyright notice on your pictures.

After posting a picture, try to add some information to it. If the picture carries EXIF and GPS information, the website will extract and show them. However, it will not have any other information about it.

You can add detail information to each picture by clicking Edit Picture Information under Your Pictures page. Such detail include:

• Name or title of the subject of the picture.
• Wikipedia link . If the subject of the picture has a page on Wikipedia, specify the link and this website will make it available to viewers and thus enables them to learn more about it.
• Name of city; town; village or locality, state or province, country and continent with which the picture is associated.
• Type of subject of the picture, whether it's a place, a person, photograph of a work of art or picture of a living being.
• A description of the picture.

With title, location and type of subject added to a picture, it becomes more accessible to viewers because they can easily search and find it.

Adding a description makes the viewer know more about the picture and appreciate it more.

Feel free to contact us about the website, or about any picture you've seen here.

If you encountered any problem while using the website, please let us know. We will be glad to fix it.

You may log on and come back to this page to send us a message.

You may also send us an email at contact_us@hometownvista.com.