May 31, 2005
Morning Roundup: Adrian’s Addition (?) Edition
We hope you had a nice weekend. This photo, posted by the Post’s Keith Jenkins in DCist Photos, shows motorcyclists with a dog in the sidecar and U.S. and Marine Corps flags. Many of the memorials and monuments on both sides of the Potomac were packed with people honoring those who have fallen in current and past wars. For a transcript of President Bush’s Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery, click here. Now on…
May 17, 2005
Morning Roundup: Trapped in Obelisk Edition
Yes, we’re already hungry for lunch. This photo of some Shanghai noodle soup and sushi, snapped by The Washington Post’s Keith Jenkins aka Burnt Pixel, was posted in DCist Photos via Flickr. The weather today? Highs in the low 70s with clouds, according to Capital Weather. Now on to this morning’s news … Tourists Trapped in Washington Monument: The Post reports that 25 people got stuck in the Washington Monument’s elevator yesterday, about 470…
May 03, 2005
Post Magazine to Feature D.C. Photobloggers’ Work
Washington Post Magazine’s Photo Editor Keith Jenkins is an avid blogger and user of the community photo sharing website Flickr. After seeing lots of good photography produced by D.C. photobloggers and members of the D.C. area Flickr group, he decided to create a feature in the magazine highlighting some of the online community’s best work. He has invited anyone who “regularly posts photos to their own photoblog or flickr site” to submit photos to the…
Apr 05, 2005
Morning Roundup: Baseball’s Back Edition
Good morning, Washington. We start with this photo on Flickr of L Street posted by Burnt Pixel, aka Keith Jenkins, the photo editor of The Washington Post Magazine. From the streetscape, we think that it was taken outside the Post’s main office. Speaking of the Post, congrats to Steve Coll, who was the only person from the news organization to score a Pulitzer yesterday. As FishbowlDC puts it, the Post “got shut out” although Coll’s…
Mar 01, 2005
DCist Photobloggers: Flickr Community
Although D.C. has a growing group of dedicated photobloggers (see our list on the bottom left) there are many photographers who would like to share their photos online but who don’t have the technical skills — or the time — to run a full time photoblog. For them there is the Washington DC/Metro Area photo sharing group on the popular photography website Flickr. Flickr can best be described as a super-charged Friendster (or TheFacebook) for…