Well it’s time to make that right.

We’d like to start filling our pool with pictures. I’ll do my best to upload photos on my end, and if you’ve got photos of Edmonton stuff you’d like to add please do. I’d love to feature your photos of the city, events and people in our daily Headlines.

So…to encourage some photos, how about I offer you a prize?

How about, for the low, low price of a photo you can have a fantastic Edmonton International Jazz Festival hat? Sounds like a deal to me.

Upload a photo of you at the jazz festival or from any of the jazz fest events or shows to our Flickr pool and I’ll throw your name into the hat (literally) for a chance at the hat.

Thanks to Eri for the hat.

We’ve got four E-Ville Roller Derby tickets to this Saturday’s “Declaration of Derby” between our own E-Ville Dead and the Rat City Rollergirls.

It’s Edmonton vs. Seattle, and will be a great way to celebrate the births of both countries.

So, to win these bad boys, how about you give me a good Edmonton-related roller derby name.

Check the roster of the E-Ville Dead for some great examples of the play on words. I’ll get the ball rolling…thinking about the Muttart Conservatory and City Hall I came up with “Pam Pyramids.”

If we get more than two entries I’ll draw for the tickets. And there will be two sets of tickets, we won’t make four of you go by yourself.

Have you heard about the Taboo show this weekend? It’s “the naughty but nice” event happening at Northlands Agricom starting Friday.

Anyway, we’ve got a pair of tickets (retail value $30) thanks to a friend of the website, Brenda at The Traveling Tickle Trunk.

All you have to do is tell us you want to get your sexy-on and I’ll throw your name into our sexy draw. Then you’ll swing (get it?) over to Brenda’s store to pick up your tickets.

Hey, if you win, could you bring a warm winter item or two for HIV Edmonton? Brenda’s been collecting such items in exchange for tickets and it would be a swell thing for you to do.

*free sex meaning entrance to a sexually-themed trade show

Just another example of Jason's fine photo skills. (Photo Jason Bouwmeester)

I’ve got a question for you, Edmonton.

Did you go to the Globe and Mail’s Dream Journalism contest and vote for our man Jason as guest photographer for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vanvouver?

Are you doing it daily?

Consider the guilt trip over.

The contest continues the rest of the week, and then the top-10 photographers and writers will be judged by a panel. The winners get to head to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics as correspondents.

Shouldn’t we have at least one Edmonton-area person up for the top prize?

Go, go, go (and vote)!

This one falls under a total bias alert, but you like voting for stuff online so we’ll call it a draw.

A good friend of the website, Jason Bouwmeester, is trying to win his way to photography glory at the 2010 Olympics.

Jason has entered the Globe and Mail’s content to be a guest photographer at the Vancouver games. (There’s a also a contest running for a guest journalist.)

You may have seen Jason’s photo work here, or in other fine establishments. He’s no hack behind the lens and you should head over to the Globe’s contest page, sign up (to vote and to have a chance at your own prizes) and help an Edmonton boy get to the big show.

The contest runs until the 22nd, at which time the top 10 vote getters will be judged (by what I can only imagine is an esteemed panel) on merit and not just Internet popularity.

Oh, and if you spot any other Edmonton and Capital Region entries, let us know.

But wait, there’s more!

Extra prizes: Jason says if you want one of his photos for yourself, he’ll be drawing names over the next 3 Saturdays. Just e-mail him at jbouwmeester@gmail.com to be included in his daily vote reminders, and the draw. Now you know why we want you to help with his dream; he’s a nice guy.