Wanted: Your Eyes on Your Streets
Bikes on the Governors Island Ferry in New York City. Photo by Benjamin Running.We need your help.
We want to see what you’re seeing when you’re out there on the streets of America, and we’re going to be asking you to send us your pictures on specific themes in the weeks to come.
This week: bike traffic.
In pretty much every part of the country, fall is prime biking weather — not too hot, not too cold. Just right for riding to work, doing your errands or getting out and about for some recreation.
Well, we want the proof. Shoot us your pictures of bike traffic in the places you live — the more cyclists the merrier. Of course, while pictures of jam-packed bike lanes are welcome, feel free to send along anything noteworthy, beautiful or just plain fun.
We’ll gather the results and put them together in a slide show for your enjoyment and edification.
You can send JPEGs to me at sarah [at] streetsblog [dot] org. Or tag your photos with streetsblog in Flickr.
Don’t forget to include caption info, and let us know how you want to be credited.
Need a deadline? Submit your entries by next Tuesday, September 29th.
And have fun out there!
Will short videos like this one also work?
Great video!
While video won’t fit with this particular project, we’re going to be soliciting video too in the future. So I’m saving the link. It’s really cool.
On a similar note…
http://blip.tv/file/1823628
Okay, I don’t actually know a good deal about this, but it reminds me of a tale my employer at Adobe once shared with us: apparently, this thirteenth century Polish alchemist endeavored (in vain) to make precious metal from lead. He examined these resources so deeply, he grew to become an expert on the two, and eventually got wealthy as the agent to the princess. Data was difficult to find in those days, nothing like at present with computer availability, and committed drivers etc. in those days, if you ever realised something good, you could keep on advising for a lifetime. But I digress. What I’m trying to say is that every now and then you find riches by merely seeking (in addition to staying focused on) something else, and this is precisely what happened to me once I inadvertently got here. I was simply trying to find some technical information on driver updates when I started browsing, and got carried away…. Carry on the good work, and thanks for the article.