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Swamplot’s next group photo feature should be a lot of fun! We’re headed to the intersection of Hillcroft Ave. and Harwin Dr., in Sharpstown. Your assignment: Take pictures of anything you like that’s within 500 ft. of that intersection. Are you up for it?

Be sure to tag your photos “Hillcroft & Harwin” (and include the quotation marks). Then submit them to the Swamplot Flickr photo pool. Make sure they’re in by midnight next Thursday, November 12th. And please enable adding to a Gallery on your Flickr account. We’ll see the results of your explorations in our photo feature next Friday!

Swamplot’s group photo assignment this week is covering the corner of West 43rd St. and Ella, in Garden Oaks. (Or is that Oak Forest? Shepherd Park Plaza?) Anyway, we want your photos — of anything you choose, as long as it’s within 500 ft. of that intersection.

If you haven’t participated in one of these assignments yet, it’s easy: Just add your photos to the Swamplot Flickr pool, and put “West 43rd & Ella” in the tag field (be sure to include the quotation marks!). The deadline for this round is midnight tomorrow night — still enough time to get your snaps in!

One more request: We’d like to try using Flickr’s gallery feature to organize the selected photos. If you’re submitting photos, could you make sure you don’t have that feature blocked? Otherwise, we won’t be able to include your pix. Thanks!

Graphic: Mr. Kimberly [license]

How about joining in the fun with next week’s group photo feature? It’s easy. We’re looking for photos taken within 500 ft. of the intersection of West 43rd St. and Ella Blvd., up in the Oak Forest-Garden Oaks-Shepherd Park Plaza area. Again this week, reader Mr. Kimberly has been kind enough to supply a map of the target area, above.

Submitting your photos is a cinch: Just add them to the Swamplot Flickr pool, and make sure they’re tagged with the phrase “West 43rd & Ella” (including the quotation marks). The deadline is midnight next Thursday, November 5th. The feature will run the next day.

Graphic: Mr. Kimberly [license]

Some great photos have already come in for this week’s group photo feature. The subject this time? Anything you want, as long as it’s within 500 ft. of the intersection of Washington Ave. and White St. in the Old Sixth Ward.

If you’d like to have some fun with this assignment yourself, there’s still time to get your photos in! The deadline is midnight on Thursday. You can find a few more details about the project here.

Graphic: Mr. Kimberly [license]

We already have some great reader pix on tap for Swamplot’s first-ever group photo feature, which premieres tomorrow! And if you’d like to participate, there’s still time: The deadline to get your photos of the area in and around the intersection of Kirby and West Alabama is midnight tonight. You can find more details about the project here.

What comes next? The Swamplot group photo feature for the following Friday, October 30th. Same idea, just a different location. We’ll try a one-week deadline for this one: Get your photos in by next Thursday at midnight.

So what’s that new location?

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Interested in taking photos for Swamplot’s new group photo feature? Great! Here’s our streetcorner-photographing FAQ:

Okay, I’m at the corner of Kirby and West Alabama. What am I supposed to be snapping pictures of?
Whatever you want. Really. Anything that’s within 500 ft. of that intersection.

Swamplot is a real-estate site. That means you want photos of buildings, right?
Well, sure. But . . . really, it’ll be a little sad if that’s all we get. What else do you see going on near that corner?

I can already see everything I want in that area from my computer, using Google Street View. What’s the point of having us take more photos?
Try taking pictures of things you can’t see from Google Maps. Then we’ll see!

I’m not a particularly good photographer, but I can snap photos with my cameraphone. Do you want those?
Photos from any kind of camera and any kind of photographer are welcome. We all love to see spectacular images, but that’s not necessarily the point of this feature. We’re just trying to get a sense of a place. And sometimes quick-and-dirty snaps can do that better than polished portraits.

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Today we welcome 2 new advertisers to Swamplot! Here they are:

• Habitation Realty

Located in the Houston Heights, Habitation Realty is a full-service real estate company specializing in “inner-loop luxury and green properties.”

• Carol Isaak Barden

Barden returns as an advertiser with more information about her latest project: The Tree House, at 1608 Indiana St.

And who are our continuing advertisers?

• New Leaf Real Estate, offering customized searches for buyers and a cash-back program
• The Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies at Rice University, — fall courses are beginning now
  
• Jay S. Ginsburg, P.C., offering a range of real-estate related legal services from its offices in Bellaire.
• Apartment locator ApartmentGiver.com. — if you find and lease an apartment through ApartmentGiver.com, the company will donate $100 to a charity of your choice, free.
• Houston. It’s Worth It. — out with the new book, HIWI: Ike, (HIWI is also sponsoring this week’s Neighborhood Guessing Game.)
• GlenbrookValley.com, featuring midcentury modern homes
• The Rice Design Alliance, continuing tonight with the fall lecture series Getting High: Towers in Architecture

We hope you’ll support these organizations and businesses, because they make Swamplot possible.

If you’d like to help support Swamplot and your own business — and reach this site’s large and growing audience of Houston real-estate fans — please contact our advertising department! (Here’s our rate sheet [PDF])