Take a Picture of the World

Lens is a blog on the NY Times website. It is all about photography, video and visual journalism. They have a great idea for today. When the clock hits 15:00 UTC -- otherwise known as Universal Coordinated Time, or actually 11:00 AM in Iselin -- they want everyone to take a special photo. These photos will all be collected and organized and some of them will be published, and won't it be cool? The whole world taking one giant photo of itself. Here is the article:

Where will you be today -- Sunday, May 2, -- at 11:00 AM  ?
Wherever you are, we hope you’ll have a camera — or a camera phone — in hand. And we hope you’ll be taking a picture to send to Lens that will capture this singular instant in whatever way you think would add to a marvelous global mosaic; a Web-built image of one moment in time across the world.
We extend the invitation to everyone, everywhere. Amateurs. Students. Pros. People who’ve been photographing for a lifetime or who just started yesterday.
What matters more than technique is the thought behind the picture, because you’ll only be sending us one. So please do think beforehand about where you will want to be and what you will want to focus on. Here are the general topics:

Religion
Play
Nature and the Environment
Family
Work
Arts and Entertainment
Money and the Economy
Community
Social Issues

After you take your photo, please send it as soon as possible to http://submit.nytimes.com/moment
On the Web form, you’ll be asked to categorize your photo by location and subject (the topic list above) and to include caption information. We don’t expect everyone to hit 15:00 exactly, but we do ask that you try to stay within a few minutes of that targeted time.
The photos will appear quickly on the Lens blog and on NYTimes.com, and — if you’d like — you’ll be able to arrange them by country, by topic or by how they were ranked by other readers. Or you can just view them randomly. Some will almost certainly be spotlighted on the Lens blog.

Would you like to play? I'm going to. If you want to see the information directly where I got it from, you can check the link HERE.