The social web is always at its best when it’s actually social.

Sometime around March last year, Capitol Heights-based photographer Anna Meyer got an Instagram notification: a message from fellow D.C. photographer Carl Maynard, who goes by @carlnard online. She’d never met Maynard before — in fact, she’d never interacted with him on Instagram, either.

“But he messaged me a few times and tagged me in some posts, suggesting I join this walk he was hosting for photographers,” she told Technical.ly. He and some friends would be walking around to see the District’s famous cherry blossoms, taking photos and getting to know locals with that common interest. Meyer decided to join.

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