Introducing: What's New
Posted by Adam Hurly on 21 May 2008.
With our online community nearing 150,000, JPG has members logging in from all corners of the map. It's exciting to think that someone just down the street could be voting on your pictures. Maybe even Hillary and Barack will be campaigning for votes outside the election. Everyone wants to be published!
To celebrate the community, we now have the new ongoing theme What's New. You can share any photos of meetups, events, gallery shows, anything that involves JPG members. We want to see our members in the photos, not just the place where the meeting occurred. Maybe you and your best friend are both in the JPG community. Well, if you're out on a fun shoot and document yourselves in the process, then it counts!
We're not playing matchmaker or anything, but feel free to arrange something with your fellow JPG members. Don't get nervous and expect some Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan life-altering meeting. No, instead we just recommend that you take advantage of this growing community and the networking opportunities. For example, at the New York Photography Festival last weekend, Eric Hart found some fellow members and captured this photo of editor Laura Brunow Miner with members nadissistic and Arian at NYPH08. Thanks Eric!
It's so warming to see our community come together. It's about you, me, us—our community and the perks that come along with being a member. Whether you're as ambitious as Mr. T in Portland—check out his great tips on setting up a workshop—or if the meeting is purely coincidental, just take a photo and submit it!
If you want to set up an event in your local neighborhood and need our help, then let us know. And if any of these meetings happen to progress into a date, a wedding proposal, or just a photo buddy, then maybe you could pitch the story to Meg Ryan's agent.
Happy snapping, JPGers!
