Here’s an interesting idea: Online photo sharing site Webshots.com has compiled a special album pegged to the May 19 release of the Da Vinci Code movie. The site’s photo editors have sifted through users’ photos and compiled an album of more than 300 photos that cover 50 locations and artifacts that are part of the movie, such as the Louvre and the Vatican Stairs.
This should give you some ideas for similarly sifting and compiling the submissions of “citizen photographers” on your news site. Obviously, many news sites do this sort of thing when disaster strikes, taking the best citizen submissions and putting them in a gallery. This Webshots.com feature reminds us that there are events and stories of less gravitas that could benefit from this treatment.
And, you may be able to use online photo services like Webshots.com and Flickr.com to incorporate photo albums like this into your own site, since both those services have APIs that support this.
