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  1. Is your image a map?
    1. How is the legend organized?   By color?   By shading?   By symbol?
    2. What is the scale?  
    3. How is the map oriented?   Where is North?
    4. Is there a color scheme - what do the colors represent?
    5. What are the natural features?  
    6. How is the topography marked?
    7. Are there bodies of water?
    8. What type of water is it?   How deep is it?
    9. What is the relationship between the water and the shore?
    10. What are the human-made features of the built environment?
    11. Are there buildings or other engineered sites?   Are they identified by a point?   A symbol?   A word?   A shape?   Does the shape bear a relationship to the footprint of the built environment?
    12. How do pedestrians or vehicles circulate through places on the map?
    13. Are there roads, paved or unpaved surfaces?
    14. What is the relationship between each of the features?
  2. Does your image depict a landscape?
    1. What are the natural features?
    2. Are there flora and fauna?   Is there vegetation? Does its presence provide clues about the season of the year? Does it provide information about the climate?   What does it suggest about sources of water?
    3. Is a sky visible?   Does it indicate the time of day; of season; climate?
    4. What does the terrain suggest?   Is it "wild"/ "natural"? Cultivated? Landscaped?
    5. How is the land organized?   Is it flat or horizontal?   Are there elevations?   Are there depressions?
    6. Is there an animal presence?   Is there a natural or cultivated habitat for animals?
    7. What is evident of the built environment?   Are there buildings or other engineered artifacts like bridges? Roads? Dams?
    8. What are the materials of the built environment?  
    9. What were the construction methods?   Does the built environment appear to be handmade, made with the assistance of mechanization or pre-fabricated?
    10. What is the relationship between each of the features?
    11. What is the relationship between the land, animals, humans, and the built environment?   Does this relationship suggest anything about the role of technology during the period the image was made?
  3. Does your image depict people?
    1. How many people are featured in the image?
    2. Can you approximate their ages?   Their races?   Are they male or female?
    3. Are they indoors or outdoors?
    4. Does the image appear to be candid or posed?
    5. Is it a formal or informal portrait?            
    6. Is it a still portrait? How are the figures depicted?   In profile?   From the front?   From behind?   Is there a backdrop?   Are there props?
    7. Is it an action shot?   What is happening in the image? Where did the action begin?   How are others responding to the action(s)?
    8. Are there material objects in the image?
    9. How are the people dressed? What type of clothing are they wearing?   What type of shoes are they wearing?   Are they wearing accessories like jewelry, hats, scarves?   What does their costume suggest about the period, the place, the climate, the temperature, the season, the setting? Are there symbols associated with their dress or objects?   Are they wearing uniforms?
    10. What type of activities might they engage in?  
    11. Are the engaged in individual or collective activities?
    12. What is the purpose of their activity?   For personal pleasure?   For worship?   For work? For relaxation?   Etc.
    13. Is there any evidence of the presence or relationship to technology?
    14. Is there any evidence of the presence or relationship to nature?
  4. Does your image depict buildings?
    1. How is the exterior of the building organized?
    2. What are the features of the façade's composition?
    3. Are there windows?   How many?   How are they arranged?
    4. Is the façade a solid plane?   Are there patterns?
    5. How many stories is it?
    6. What are the materials used?
    7. Are there special details that have been applied or incorporated like trim, columns, medallions, clock faces?
    8. What architectural style is it?
    9. What is the scale relative to humans?
    10. Where do people enter and exit?
    11. How is the interior of the building organized?
    12. How is the space created?   By rooms?   By walls? By manipulating ceiling heights?   
    13. Are the walls covered?   Are the floors covered?   Are the windows covered?   Are the door openings covered?
    14. Is there a decorative plan?
    15. Are there furnishings?
    16. Are there appliances?
    17. How is air circulation handled?   Is there evidence of technology or machinery for heating or cooling?   Are there dedicated places and features for heating and cooling - like fireboxes for warmth or transoms above the doors for air circulation?   
  5. Is your image the plan of a building?
    1. How does do people move or circulate through the spaces?   Are the spaces linked to each other?   Through rooms?   Openings?   Corridors?   Stairs?   Elevators? Escalators?  
    2. Where do people enter and exit?   How points of egress are there?   Would everyone use them?
    3. Is there a hierarchy of spaces?   How has that been achieved?   By manipulating the sizes and shapes of space?   What is the length and width of the space?   Can you tell the ceiling height?
    4. What are the formal features?
    5. Is there a decorative program?
    6. Are there openings for windows?
    7. Are there openings for passageways?   Are there doors?   How do they swing?   Where have they been hung on the wall?  
    8. Are there private spaces?   Are there public spaces?   Are there semi-public/semi-private spaces?   Private to whom?   Public to whom?
    9. What is the relationship between each of the features?
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