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“Photowalking is the act of walking with a camera for the main purpose of taking pictures of things that the photographer may find interesting” as per wikipedia.

Traditionally, photowalking has been used as a method to practice and improve one’s own photography skills. Walking is also a good exercise and during a photowalk, you could roam around a neighbourhood for several miles without realizing how much you walked.

Last week, we started photowalking and are amazed at how much we learnt about our neighbourhood . More importantly, we shot very interesting people and objects, the kind that you would normally squander and opportunity to shoot. We simply love it and are going to do it on a regular basis now – if you would like to join in, you are most welcome to.

Here are some snaps from our last two photowalks:

Lifeblob “People of the world” was a grand success with a lot of interesting content being showcased. This was what we intended for when we started this contest in the first place.

Some of the interesting photos were:

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving,
make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Lifeblob today announced the launch of the third edition photography contest with the theme “Celebrations”. The contest is free for anyone to join and is currently live on http://www.lifeblob.com/welcome/contest. The contest closes on 15th January 2009. The contest is open to people of all nationalities above the age of 13.

SUBMIT your photos which adheres to the theme “Celebrations” on lifeblob.com

PROMOTE your photo on twitter, facebook by inviting friends to view and vote for it

WIN!!! 50$ Amazon gifts and much more!

So, what are you waiting for!

This holiday season showcase your celebrations in style on Lifeblob!

For those who have been asking for it, its time to rejoice – we changed the profile photo defaults to make them more colorful. Yay!

Now thats not much of a news, so we decided to check out what each of these colors mean in the language of photos. And guess what, the results were very interesting.

Click on any of the photos below to check out what that color means:

Today we are launching a new way to discover photos at lifeblob – the “good old search“.

Lifeblob now has a collection of over 1.5 Million photos and adding search for photos makes it really easy to find photos that match your interests. So go ahead, type in a few words and explore the amazing world of photos.

Here are a few searches to try out: Kid Photos, Pet Photos, Landscape Photos, Bangalore Photos, Road Photos.

Tip for lifeblobbers: Photos that have more comments / likes / views rank higher in the search results. Promote your photos by sharing them with your friends!

We hope you are having a great time submitting your photos to the People of the World Contest and viewing and voting on submissions by other lifeblobbers.

Yesterday, we launched a few tools that will make it much easier for you to participate in the contest:

1) Lets start with the tweeple – we now have a retweet button on the contest page that makes it a breeze for you to run for the Lifeblob Livewire Prize. Use this button to tweet about the contest, spread the word and become a livewire.

2) We have introduced a new “Submit your photo“ button on the contest page. Clicking this button will directly take you to a page where you can upload your contest photo.

3) All of your photos will now have a “Post to contest“ link on top. To submit a photo from your lifeblob, simply click the name of the contest in the dropdown and you are done!

If these tools are helpful, do drop in a comment and we’ll feel appreciated. If you have something in mind that we should do, let us know that as well.

Have a great day and keep blobbing!