'On Duty in Iraq'

Last month in the Washington Post I saw a notice that the paper was soliciting photographic submissions from U.S. soldiers and their families and friends about life in Iraq.

Huh, I thought; what a clever way to get great material for free: others do the work, submit stuff you'd never in a thousand years be able to get, and you publish it.

Is that a good deal for the Post, or not?

The paper's just put up on the web the first group of photos.

There's an essay explaining the project and 34 pictures.

There were two full pages of color photos in the first section of Sunday's paper.