It's much the same with places as with the characters. Only without the personal shame of having to "ask" a place whether you may photograph it ;) — so much easier for me.
And places — especially places built, shaped, made by humans — always mirror a moment of a state of being; often not just of one person, but of a shared organism. So they become organisms themselves, and in that light they come alive too, because they keep changing, with (or without) people. All the time. And they begin to tell their own stories, simply by being.
