The View From Your Window Guidelines

The View From Your Window feature began on May 22, 2006 as a week-long experiment, and your photos immediately poured in by the hundreds. A reader wrote, "More with those window views! - maybe a weekly feature?" I replied, "Certainly not a weekly feature."  On May 30, I declared the project over.

But you kept e-mailing me your windows, and I kept posting them. On June 12, I capitulated. The now-daily feature has become one of the most popular on the Dish, and we still receive hundreds of photos every week, now selected by Chris Bodenner.

While there is no single standard for a window view, we tend to adhere to a few guidelines. The window frame should be visible. Photos from car windows, trains, or airplanes are only allowed in very, very rare instances. Vertical photographs are also rarely accepted. No rainbows, children, or animals. The point of the project is not to document snow fall in New Orleans, the aftermath of a hurricane in the South Pacific, or a beautiful sunset in the Arizona desert. The best window views are those depicting what you see everyday when you look outside. So show us - and every other reader - your world. Don't pretty it up; just show it as it is - a glimpse through the looking glass of a blog, at the world its readers live in.

Send your photos to andrew@theatlantic.com. Please title the e-mail "The View From My Window" and label the file City-State-TimeOfDay.jpg if within the US and City-Country-TimeOfDay.jpg if abroad. The larger the file size, the better. Also, by sending your photos, as from the very beginning, you grant the Dish full rights to publish and edit them as we see fit. If you want to retain any rights, don't send 'em.