Assignment: Houston

Mini Break

I will be out of the country starting Monday so the Assignment: Houston website will be taking a mini-break.  Hope to have everything up and running again in December.  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

HIWI Winners

It is going to be absolutely beautiful this week in Houston.  The kind of week where you look around and think "boy I love living in here."  But as we discovered in September, Houston is worth it even despite all the problems and "afflictions" that it has to deal with.  

After looking at all our submissions, the folks at Houston It's Worth It have selected the following three photos as the winners from that month's assignment.  Each winner will receive a copy of the HIWI: Ike book.  According to HIWI the photos were selected for three different reasons.  One because it contained 5 afflictions, one for its aesthetic beauty (and it was affliction related) and one for its bizarre HIWI quality.  I'll let you figure out which photo fits which description.  

Congratulations to the photographers and thank you to HIWI for such a great assignment.  Make sure to stop by the new HIWI website where you can upload photographs of the afflictions AND of things that make Houston It's Worth It.  

 

Urban Sprawl by sulla55

 

Rush Hour and Water Don't Mix by Collen_Shepherd

 

The Image by mlsnp

A personal note

Assignment: Houston began on Flickr three years ago as a way to get people out into the city with their cameras.  I have a great love for Houston and wanted to introduce people to places they may not have otherwise visited.  I wanted to see what their take was on the city that I photograph every day.  The group has been successful beyond my wildest dreams and I have to thank the wonderful members who make it a vibrant group even today.

I had another group dear to my heart: Houston Photobloggers.  Photoblogging is a very important part of my life and running the Houston Photobloggers group has been an honor.  I want to thank Brandon Stone of Photoblogs.org for all his advice and help throughout the years as well as the wonderful photobloggers on our rolls.  I have watched as many of them documented important milestones in their lives (births, deaths, marriages, etc.) with their camera.  I love this group dearly, but I have had to admit to myself that times change.  Photoblogging, once a dominant medium, is now only one of the many ways to share photography on the web.  

After much thought I have decided to create a new website.  It could have taken on any name, and several were considered, but my heart truly lies with the goal of Assignment: Houston.  The blog will bring over some of the content from Houston Photobloggers including links to photography articles and the weekend planner.  Plans are in the works for meet-ups, photowalks and many more photos in the spotlight to inspire you to get out with your camera.  Of course the Assignment: Houston Flickr group has new assignments every month to get you out and about.  I'm not sure where this new adventure on the web will take me, but I am excited about the possibilities.

I hope you will add Assignment: Houston to your bookmarks and RSS readers and that you will join in discovering all that Houston has to offer photographers.