Beginning in September, Philadlephia City Paper will select a photo a week for publication in our paper in exchange for a photo credit, bragging rights, glory, etc.

to enter, add your photos to the Flickr group: Philadelphia City Paper

http://www.citypaper.net

If Metblogs is a city, hub.metblogs is the playground. We kept hearing from people that one of their favorite parts of Metblogs was meeting and interacting with readers and writers from other parts of the world, as well as getting requests for more ways that readers could be involved besides just posting comments. We thought about this for a while and decided that with a network like this, a giant community area where folks from all over the world could hang out, post photos and videos, talk with each other, form groups, play games, send messages, and do about a million other things was probably a pretty fun idea. The Hub is that.

If you have any tech ideas or suggestions join this group and speak up. See you on hub.metblogs!

The Friends of the Wissahickon (FOW) announces the 2008 Wissahickon Photography Contest. Deadline is: September 29, 2008 at 5 p.m. Photographers may submit work in five categories: people; wildlife; landscape; structures; and FOW activities. All winners will receive a Friends of the Wissahickon T-shirt.In the Adult Competition, prizes will be awarded as follows: Grand Prize (Best in Show), $100; First Prize in each category, $50; second prize in each category, a gift certificate.Aspiring young photographers are welcome to enter our Junior Competition. Submissions will be judged in two age categories: 12 years and under and 13 to 17 years. Best in each category will receive a prize of $25.Competitors may submit up to six photos in any category. There is no entrance fee. The Friends of the Wissahickon reserves the right to use photo submissions in FOW publications.An entry form with complete instructions can be obtained on FOW’s website at www.fow.org or at the FOW office, 8708 Germantown Avenue. For more information, contact Heather Davis Jones at davisjones@fow.org or 215-247-0417.

<>As I’m a bit behind, two photos today. One is the ‘photo of the day”; a quintessential, moody “profile of a drinker” by Ted Adams

See the original on Flickr here

The amazing Rainbow Explosion, by Phillybits

See the original on Flickr here

The self-absorbed joy of the little boys playing in the Rittenhouse (?) fountain shines through in this photo by egnarorm

See original on Flickr here

Photo of the Day:

I couldn’t resist this wonderful capture by Brooklyn Bridge: read the gravestone carefully!

SAFECRACKER???

see the original on Flickr

wonderful neon and a nostalgic diner: The Trolley Car on Germantown Avenue.

Photo by Brooklyn Bridge Baby in the Metroblogging Philly Flickr pool.

 The beautiful University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology & Anthrolopology Courtyard, seen with wonderful soft, shallow depth of field in this photo by A Bryce

the futuristic interior of Morimoto restaurant, as captured by Kasari:
— from kasari - (?)“