Friday Shout-Outs, Hotshots!, Young Guns, and Men At Work

Guest shout alert! Grover is taking a week off from his regular Friday shout-outs as he goes into deep hibernation mode to research and assemble content for our next photo student webinar that we’re producing with MAC Group (date/time to be announced). So, I’m filling in, and fortunately there’s plenty of material to share.

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.

#WINNING
We start this week’s recognition with a salute to actor Charlie Sheen. If you haven’t heard of him, Charlie Sheen is the actor who played alongside Emilio Estevez in Men at Work.


Charlie Sheen, 1987 in NYC. (Photo by Jonathan Green)

Photographers ask us all the time how to amass a large Twitter following, and Charlie has apparently mastered the art with a, let’s call it “clever” recipe, garnering over 1 million followers in less than 48 hours. Impressive. I did notice that Charlie’s been using Twitpic to share his photos. If you know Charlie, please let him know there’s a free PhotoShelter account (trial) waiting for him. He can tweet links to photos directly from inside PhotoShelter (and maybe even sell the photos as prints).

Charlie – just DM me @photoshelter and we’ll get you set up. That way you can do the drug that we’ve been doing for years – it’s called PHOTOSHELTER.



#WINNING PHOTO CONTESTS
On to more serious stuff. PDN and National Geographic Traveler just announced the winners of the 2011 World In Focus Travel Photography Contest. Not surprisingly, we found more than a handful of PhotoShelter members among the winners. We want to share a hearty congrats to:

All are outstanding photographers and worth a peek. Check out all the 2011 winners here.


PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER WITH PHOTOSHELTER
thomas-pickard.jpgThomas Pickard is a commercial and editorial photographer on Cook Island in the South Pacific. Thomas has used PhotoShelter for quite some time, but recently chose to consolidate his web presence here. Using our new portfolio feature and the ability to custom integrate his PhotoShelter site with is blog design, Thomas was able to eliminate his completely separate Flash-based portfolio website. (We’re guessing that move saved some money too.)

Thomas detailed the switch in a recent blogpost “Anatomy of a Website Change.”    

Thanks for the kind words on your blog Thomas, and thanks for your continued loyalty. (Don’t forget about your Refer-a-Friend code, says the marketing guy.)


HOT OFF THE PRESSES

We just came back from an intense weekend in Philadelphia at the ASMP SB3 Conference. We heard a very inspiring keynote from The Communicatrix, Colleen Wainwright, about “being awesome.” Not kidding – Colleen gives an amazing talk that literally lays out the formula. “How to Make People Love You Madly – Selling Yourself in a Postmodern Marketplace.”  There’s still time to register for the final SB3 event in Chicago at the beginning of April. They’re jam packed with business insights and great networking.  (If you don’t know Colleen and can’t make the Chicago event, you should check out her blog and add her to your RSS feeds now.) 

It was great catching up with several PhotoShelter members in attendance in Philly, the gang from Agency Access, and the phenomenal Susan Carr, who organized the multi-city event. Susan has a new book out that’s well worth a look – The Art & Business of Photography. I just received my copy yesterday.  


GOING WHERE THE ACTION IS
As the tempest in the Middle East continues to unfold, we’ve noticed a very clear shift, with more images pouring from Libya and less from Egypt. In some cases, the photojournalists have literally made their way over from one boiling revolution to the next. Scott Nelson has found exceptional access to capture the faces of the Libyan revolution.


Libyan morgue workers wash the body of a “martyr” for burial. (Photo by Scott Nelson.)

The same is true for photojournalists Trevor Snapp, Alessio Romenzi, and Guillermo Cervera.

Meanwhile, Fredrik Nauman of Felix Features has captured the chaos across the border in Tunisia as Libyan refugees seek shelter and safety

It’s great to see these exceptional photographers using PhotoShelter to share daily updates with the world. We’re hoping you are all keeping safe.

GOOGLE CALLED AND SAID HE THINKS YOU’RE LOOKIN’ GOOD
Finally, we head into the weekend with a little horn tooting. PhotoShelter was featured in the March issue of Professional Photographer magazine and we’re delighted to share it. We gave two Professional Photographer readers – David Keyes and Michelle Frankfurter – an intensive SEO makeover and documented the process for the magazine. We’re looking forward to checking in with these two in a few months to see how the SEO has paid off.       



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.

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There are 2 comments for this article
  1. Chuck at 2:03 am

    Charlie Sheen , really ? , isn’t that just a little desperate to gain SEO and hits , whats next The Kardashians using the iPad , vaguely connected how you as a photographer can use an IPad as well , look they do !.

  2. Grover Sanschagrin at 12:15 pm

    Chuck – all in good fun. But The Kardashians using an iPad? I need to check into that – sounds like a great story.

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