a few questions relating to ethnography and our research

1. Since many people have suggested we add some type of interview or at least contact some of the people running transportation blogs (blog from Portland, buschick in Seattle, etc) How would we go about doing this? What questions would we ask? What information exactly are we trying to learn from them? Should we only interview these types of people, or also include random people actually using transportation? and again, what do we ask?

2. We originally wanted to focus our research on just observation and taking various photographs of places in both Seattle and Amsterdam. How are we going to analyze them exactly? If we add video how again will that be analyzed? Are we trying to study people's perceptions of public transport? How and why they use certain types of transport? Or just use transportation as a means of studying the way people interact with their environment?

3. What kind of conclusions are we really going to be able to make from our observations? It seems as though it may be difficult to find and take pictures of similar areas in both cities when we are first going to be in Seattle and then in Amsterdam without being able to go back to Seattle to take more photos/videos before presenting our work in Switzerland, how are we going to account for this? Are we simply going to have pictures stand alone and make conclusions about them?...

I feel like although we seem to know what we want to do, we haven't fully discussed how we're going to do it. Where are we going to take pictures/videos (are we going to do video?) are we going to go back to the same few places over and over again? or try to go to a number of places? Once we've taken photos, what kind of field notes will accompany them? If so what questions are we going to ask people? About what they are doing? What they are thinking about in terms of the space they are in?....What will we do with all of our notes in the end? I'm feeling a little bit unsure about what conclusions we can really make about people or about a culture from our simple observations...