New Southeast Michigan Photographer Forums

With our large South East Michigan Digital & Film Photography community on Flickr and the exploding population and volume of content coming through on our Facebook page, we realized that our group needed a better way to archive and fluidly discuss all our valuable experience and photographic knowledge that comes through on both of our group pages.... So we decided to open up a South Eastern Michigan Digital & Film Photography Forum.

Facebook and Flickr are great tools and avenues to gather in, share and discuss photography related subjects but both are lacking when it comes to organizing and archiving the content. By creating this forum we can keep all the content that would normally get lost in the ever updating pile of Facebook postings, have a better way to find material that would normally be placed in the "user unfriendly" and "page after page" list of unorganized discussions on Flickr, and be able to put it all together in a nice organized and easy to find fashion in a forum layout. For the record, we have absolutely no intent or desire to abandon either our Flickr or Facebook pages. Each avenue holds a unique and distinctive quality that each of the other avenues does not. This is just another avenue with a different set of unique characteristics that we can all use as a valuable resource.

The forum was officially opened Tuesday October 16th. Although still in it's infant stages, within short time we expect to have a totally organized and a material-full forum that includes a member introduction forum, a beginner forum, separate digital and film forums, presentation and editing forums, equipment forums, business related forums, multi subject photo posting forums for general display and/or critique, photo challenge and monthly assignment forums, location archives for good places to photograph landscape and nature, a local south eastern Michigan photography related news forum, a classifieds forum for buy/sell and a fun "off topic" lounge type forum where members can hang out, take part in forum games, and discuss anything non photography related like sports, hobbies, their pets or just whatever one feels like.

To make this forum a success, we need you to stop in and start to fill it up with material. Over the next few months as more material comes in, we will be expanding the topic forums and be organizing them accordingly. We hope you stop by and feel it out. We already have a good friendly group of folks there now so stop in, check it out, sign up, make yourself at home and share a photo, share an experience, an idea and share our new forum. You can find it right here at..........

http://semidfp.boards.net/index.cgi

Hope to see all you south east Michigan photographers there!!