Friday Shout-Outs, Crowning Glories, and Holes In One

This week, let’s check out a bunch of abandoned buildings in America AND a bunch of really cool new photog websites, shall we? I’ll even through in a good marketing idea, a dragonfly, and one photographer’s collection of self portraits.

Shout-Outs are a regular Friday thing, and you can be part of it too. Send us suggestions! If we think it’s worth shouting about, it will show up here in the blog on a Friday. To submit something, scroll to the bottom to see how.

ABANDONED
Matthew D. White is known for his photographs of coastal landscapes, waterways, industries, and urban locations along the Gulf Coast of the United States. One recent project, called “Abandoned Gulf Coast“, is full of images that illustrate the changes to this region over the past few decades.

Abandoned Gulf Coast – Images by Matthew White

DRAGONFLY
I spotted this one on Twitter. William Alan, a professional photographer based in Seattle, has a really cool series of images of a “Kirby’s Dropwing Red Dragonfly“. Wild, huh?

KILLER NEW PHOTOG WEBSITES
Congrats to Charlie Mahoney, Jesse Speer, and Ole Jørgen Liodden for their super sweet new websites – complete with seamless PhotoShelter archive integrations. These three sites were released this week, and are absolutely incredible. They say that good things come in threes, right?

Charlie Mahoney, a photojournalist based in Barcelona, Spain, worked with web designer (and PhotoShelter expert) David Brabyn to make a little magic happen.

Jesse Speer is a photographer who specializes in the wild, scenic and rural places of Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and the Western United States. His website is designed to allow people to browse, search and purchase images from his archive – including fine photographic prints for home, office and commercial licensing.

Norwegian nature photographer Ole Jørgen Liodden runs the Naturfokus Image Bank, where visitors can purchase images for personal or commercial use as products and prints.

GOOD IDEA
Barbara K. Adamski, a photographer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, has come up with an idea that other photographers might want to steal borrow.

“Every day I pick a photo of the day and add it to my email signature,” she said. “I also post the link to Twitter and Facebook. In addition, I’ve added a new page to my site, where I have a slideshow of my photos of the day to date.”

Cool idea, and a nice way to use one of those two PhotoShelter blank pages!

“It reminds clients (or tells them for the first time) that I don’t just work with words; it generates conversations about my photos, interests, etc. among friends and colleagues; it brings traffic to my site; it will hopefully result in increased photo sales.

SHOOTING HIMSELF
John Taylor, a UK-based photographer, has a fun gallery of Self Portrait images taken throughout time. I had fun with these because some of them aren’t obvious, and you have to do a bit of searching.

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I am always looking for things to include here in our Friday Shout-Outs – so if you have anything you think is worthy, let me know. One great way to do that is to post a note to Twitter with my name in it (@heygrover) and that way I won’t forget it later. Don’t have Twitter? Email me, grover-at-photoshelter-dot-com.