"Moment In Time" Response Overwhelming

 

NEW YORK, NY (May 3, 2010) – When editors at The New York Times invited photographers around the world to take a picture at at the same time on Sunday and submit their images to a LENS blog gallery called "A Moment In Time," they naturally expected a good response and were prepared for an incoming stream of pictures to arrive last night from around the world.

But aside from picture editor and senior staff photographer James Estrin, the Times editors probably didn't expect the overwhelming outpouring of images, more than 10,000 by this morning's count, that temporarily flooded their technical capacity to accept submissions.

"It seems that we'll be able – on a modest and limited scale, of course – to realize our goal of fashioning a kind of simultaneous global portrait," David W. Dunlap and Kerri MacDonald wrote in the Times today. "So far, that portrait seems to be one of surprising tranquility."

Photographers were asked to take a picture at 15:00:00 GMT on Sunday, May 2, 2010, which was 8 a.m. in Los Angeles, 11 a.m. in New York, 4 p.m. in London, 7 p.m. in Moscow, and 11 p.m. in Beijing.

Although the project asked photographers to take their picture "as close as possible" to that moment in time, editors understood that there would be a bit of leeway of a few minutes on either side of the appointed hour.

And due to the technical glitch, photographer have until Friday, May 7, to use a Times' Web page to upload and submit their images.

The Times' "Moment In Time" submission page is here.

 

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