Okay, maybe not for profit, or at least that isn't the intent behind any collaborative efforts that I have done lately. I'm sure that you can make money collaborating with other bloggers, people do it all the time. I'll let some of the big money people talk about that. Me, I'm in it for the fun.

This past week one of my favorite bloggers Chica X put up a post asking for images that she could edit and post on her blog, giving credit back to the photographer and all. I submitted two of mine and told her to have at it. She rocked it of course. Then the wheels started turning in my head and I shot her an e-mail. "Why not a group on Flickr?" She agreed and we set up a group called Second Shotz on Flickr. The group is for photographers, bloggers, photoshop and picnik enthusiasts who want a shot at editing a straight out of the camera image and showing others their work.

So we set out to set up the group. I wrote up our mission: "This group has been created to let you take and edit a "Straight out of the Camera" image. Edit it as you see fit and upload it back to the group. Each week a new image will be posted by the moderators. You will have one week to do your best on the image and upload them to the group. The top three images each week will be featured in blog posts on Photo Projectz and The BenSpark. Only submit images that have been edited for Second Shots. Other images will be removed."

Once the mission was clearly defined we invited our Flickr friends. The response was very nice and we've already had the second week of images start. Week one we had nine participants and week two just started with six participants. In addition some of the participants have written blog posts about their image being picked by either myself or by Chica. Blog posts with links to our blogs.

Here are some examples of what we are seeing with this group.

We didn't plan to get a bunch of links from other bloggers, we just worked together to set up something fun and that people would enjoy. The group is open to all so if you want to take a crack at this editing stuff please go right ahead and join Second Shotz.

What are you passionate about? Have you met another blogger online who shares that passion with you? Is there something that you can collaborate on for fun or... profit?

Drew writes four blogs, is an avid kayaker and a Transformers fan, he also does a mean cake plow. He recently completed taking 1140+ consecutive photos in 1140+ days. You can visit him at The BenSpark, The Wired Kayaker, Read To Me, Dad, Google is not God.

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