Tag: Swamplot Projects

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]

Want to participate in this coming week’s group photo feature? Great! Here’s a map showing the location, courtesy of participating photographer Mr. Kimberly. This time, we’ll be looking for photos taken within 500 ft. of the intersection of Washington Ave. and White St., in and around the Old Sixth Ward.

Submit your pix to the Swamplot Flickr pool, and tag them “Washington & White” (including the quotation marks). Make sure they’re in before midnight next Thursday, October 30th. The feature will run the next day.

Questions? Check out the FAQ from this past week’s assignment or ask them below.

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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Interested in snapping some pix for Swamplot’s new group photo project — but feeling a little swamped for time?

No problem. By popular request, we’re resetting the deadline for this site’s inaugural group photo feature — giving you an extra week. Now you’ll have until midnight next Thursday, October 22nd, to post your photos! Just make sure they show a subject that’s within 500 ft. of the intersection of Kirby and West Alabama. Reader Mr. Kimberly has been nice enough to indicate the target area for you in the graphic above.

If you’d like to participate (and we hope you will!), be sure to read the instructions we posted last week. We’ll answer a few questions about the project here later.

• Your Photos Here: Announcing Swamplot’s New Group Photo Feature [Swamplot]

Graphic: Mr. Kimberly [license]