Feature Shoot's Online Group Show #2: Window Seat

This past Friday Feature Shoot posted it's second online group show, Window Seat. They opened submissions on February 20th, detailing the topic about being photos taken from the windows of airplanes.
Although this isn't Feature Shoot's first online group show, having their first earlier in February, this is really the first time I've come across a collection of photos online being called in a group show. I've seen where sites ask for submissions of particular themes and guidelines, then posts selected works like A Dirty Job's themes of the month or like some of the fun projects Jeff Hamada posts on Booooooom.
I have two initial thoughts about Feature Shoot's online Group Shows.
1) How quick an online group show can be when it's open to submissions to anyone who saw it on FS before the deadline.
2) How little detail there was on Feature Shoot's call for submission, which to me extends to how impersonal these kinds of open submissions and group shows can be.

From the call for submission to the deadline, photographers had just two weeks to take, edit, and select photos to submit. As little time as that is and how unfair that can seem, I'm sure there were many submissions and the more significant point to me is how quick a group show was put together, because it was online, and nothing had to be printed or extensively organized as a real group show exhibit would come with.

With the short description in the call for submissions participants and readers don't sense any unity Feature Shoot's group show would have, not like a physical group show exhibit would. As a viewer I didn't see a personal connection between the photos and the photographers, neither did I have a collective impression from the photos, which are things I'd normally experience with a real physical group or solo show exhibit.
With such a short notice for a group show, without a more overall personal significant motif for the show besides particular images, photographers don't have more time to think about and create a more meaningful selection of works this results in a less cohesive union for a group show.

Photographer Elizabeth Weinberg tweeted it best Saturday, "A lotta photography out there that's beautiful but got no soul. I look for that magical union of the two."
When all a photographer is going for is a nice photo, it's not that special if it isn't important to them.

With a quick and short kind of online group show post like Feature Shoot's compiled of maybe meaningful work to their photographers, lacks a direct description of what the work is about like the way physical group show exhibits do, and a viewer does not get the same experience.

However I feel about online group shows, I would like to note I did enjoy some photos in Window Seat, especially from Adrian Studer, William Rugen, Rebecca Stumpf, and Meighan Ellis. (Would have be nice to know at least where the photos were taken.)