Finally, a couple of reminders. First, although we are, as always, extremely grateful to those who choose to tag their photos with “DCist”, we’d be even more grateful if contributors limited themselves to a few photos per day. The rule, to whatever extent there is one, is 3 or 4, but if you’ve got a few more more compelling images we’d certainly like to see those, too. However, if you’ve got a 120-photo set of pictures of rocks that you think are kind of interesting, adding “DCist” to the batch tags is something to avoid. One or two of those rock-shots is sufficient — you can rest assured that if it piques our interest we’ll be checking out the rest of the recent entries in your photostream. Adding too many photos clutters things up and makes it easy to overlook other worthy photographers.

Second, one or two photographers have been adding borders to their photos and text asserting a copyright. While we certainly want to respect your copyright, we can’t crowdsource formatting, padding and layout. So fair warning: we take your tagging a photo with DCist as permission to use it; when necessary, we’re also going to take it as permission to crop the photo. That’ll include those copyright notices. If you’re uncomfortable with this, please get in touch with one of us to talk about it, and refrain from tagging items for our feed until we’ve worked the issue out. And of course, if this makes any of our photographers uncomfortable, we’d like to discuss it with you in comments.

Third, don’t forget the email address for mobile photos! Your VGA camphone shot may not make it onto the wall at the next DCist Exposed, but it could still show us something interesting about D.C. So add the email to your phonebook: hotel03doors (at) photos.flickr.com.

Thanks, as always.