Greetings and Salutations -
This email is for all the photographers out there. Not just the pros, but anyone that both has and uses a camera in the Bay Area once in a while.
As most of you know, there is a Wikipedia article for just about everything (and everywhere). One of the major problems, as many see it, is that a large number of these articles don't have pictures. For example, approximately 1 in 4 BART stations do NOT have pictures. You would think that with a ridership of 350,000 people a day, someone would have thought to take pictures of all the stations, but apparently not. Rather than bore you with more examples, I have a simple request for everyone out there that uses a camera: Please, skim over the list of requested photographs in your county (see links below) and see if there happens to be anything near by that you can visit and take a picture of (at your earliest convenience). We'd love to see the content uploaded on Commons, for the betterment of all Wiki's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Ala... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Con... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Mar... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Nap... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_San... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_San... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_San... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Sol... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Son...
Thanks in advance, -Jon [[Commons:User:ShakataGaNai]]
Hi!
I also recommend to search for historical buildings lists (and California Historical Landmark, National Register of Historic Places). I found such for San Jose, Santa Clara, Los Gatos, Saratoga on cities websites. It's good source of inspiration for photographic activity.
Eugene.
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Jon wiki@konsoletek.com wrote:
Greetings and Salutations -
This email is for all the photographers out there. Not just the pros, but anyone that both has and uses a camera in the Bay Area once in a while.
As most of you know, there is a Wikipedia article for just about everything (and everywhere). One of the major problems, as many see it, is that a large number of these articles don't have pictures. For example, approximately 1 in 4 BART stations do NOT have pictures. You would think that with a ridership of 350,000 people a day, someone would have thought to take pictures of all the stations, but apparently not. Rather than bore you with more examples, I have a simple request for everyone out there that uses a camera: Please, skim over the list of requested photographs in your county (see links below) and see if there happens to be anything near by that you can visit and take a picture of (at your earliest convenience). We'd love to see the content uploaded on Commons, for the betterment of all Wiki's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Ala... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Con... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Mar... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Nap... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_San... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_San... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_San... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Sol... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Son...
Thanks in advance, -Jon [[Commons:User:ShakataGaNai]]
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