FEBRUARY 1, 2011 10:36AM

Photo Call: Snowmageddon 2011!

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For approxmiately the 403rd time this winter, large swaths of the continental United States (in this case, the Plains, the Midwest and the Northeast) are slated to be hit by a major snow storm. Post your pictures of how the blizzard looks in your neck of the woods.

IMPORTANT: To submit your original pictures, post images that are at least 600 x 400 pixels at 72 dpi on your blog by 6pm ET tomorrow night. Please also include a little information about where each pair of photos was taken.

Be sure to tag your photos "Snowmageddon 2011." We'll feature our favorites on the cover of Open Salon. Over at big Salon, we'll be collecting photos from across the Internet and we hope to include some Open Salon pictures in the mix.

Please note that by tagging your posts "Snowmageddon 2011" you're giving us permission to cross-post your photos (with credit, of course) onto Salon.

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I assume you won't mind if a Canuck or two make some submissions?
Boanerges1
February 01, 2011 10:45 AM
@Boanerges - Not at all! Apologies for the US-centric posting....
Emily Holleman
February 01, 2011 10:50 AM
This would involve going outside, right?
tr ig
February 01, 2011 10:54 AM
Minnesota is definitely getting Snowmaggedon! See what I can do...xox
Robin Sneed
February 01, 2011 12:07 PM
Looking at the radar, I don't think the main storm's going to hit here -- about 40 miles southeast of Detroit -- before the 6 p.m. deadline, so I guess my question was moot. Sorry.
Boanerges1
February 01, 2011 12:27 PM
@Boanerges -- Actually going to extend it to tomorrow now. So, post away!
Emily Holleman
February 01, 2011 12:30 PM
Didn't take me long to reply. Thanks for this call.
Sheba Marx
February 01, 2011 03:54 PM
You may not know, but 600x400 is not a possible size photo to post on one's blog. The first dimension is width, and the maximum width that OS allows is 485. I think it scales them down if you submit bigger. 400x600 (400 wide, 600 high) is a theoretically possible dimension, but I'm not sure that's what you requested. I suppose someone could put in the photo on its side. Although if memory serves, it might have a bug where it tries to scale it needlessly in the vertical direction—I don't know if they ever fixed that. It was the cause of mysteriously bad resolution in large photos people were submitting. I reported it long ago and it wasn't fixed after a month or two, then I stopped tracking it.

I guess my bottom line point is that being fussy about dimension is just a way to frustrate OS people, who aren't in control of their own fate for photos as large as you're requesting.
Kent Pitman
February 01, 2011 04:03 PM
Emily, thanks for this great opportunity!!
Gary Justis
February 01, 2011 05:06 PM
Emily--

I'm not so sure about the title of the Photo Call. This was WaPo's Capital Weather Gang's term for the 2010 DC-Metro snowstorm(s).

The folks on that blog are pretty tenacious about the white stuff.

:)
Michael Klozotsky
February 02, 2011 12:21 PM