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My Favorite DC Area Flickr Users

Yesterday I posted my list of favorite DC area photographers and their blogs.  There’s also a number of great local photographers that use Flickr as their medium to display their work.

Here’s my list of favorite DC area Flickr users:

George Brett – ghbrett

Kim Baker – kimberlyfaye

Heather Rider – heather.rider

David Crooks – DLC Photos

Tracy Clayton – Tracy Clayton

Max Cook – maxedaperture

Amanda McLean – soleil1016

Sherri Benton – bluedot11

George Fletcher – GFletch

Phil – philliefan99

Pamela Viola – pamelaviola

Rebecca Schley – InspirationDC

Mark Stephenson – markjstephenson

Tom Bridge – tbridge

Dawn Casey – Dawn Casey

David Patton – dcpatton

Richie Rozzelle – Pants Pants

Stuart Zehner – StuZehner

Don – digital_don

Kevin – kgcyclist

Terry Hartley – deucehartley

Ben Rome – Ghost Bear

Trammel Hudson – hudson

Tracy Endo – Tracy Endo Photography

Jimmy Gardner – jjgardner3

Aaron Brazell – Technosailor

This is a long list but I’m sure I’ve missed some.  Who would you add?

Tags: dc area photographers, flickr, list, photographers

My Favorite DC Area Photo Bloggers

DC has a number of great photographers, both the hobby and professional kinds.  Here’s my list of some of my favorite local photogs and the blogs they publish.

• Shawn Duffy - SDuffyPhotography.blog
• Mike Palmer – Michael Palmer Photography
• Rob Jones – Towner Jones Photography
• Matthew Lyons – matthew’s picture of the day
• Victoria Pickering – Victoria Pickering
• Katie Harbath – katieharbath
• Aaron Spicer – Aaron Spicer Photography
• Ferrell McCollough – Before the Coffee
• Patty Hankins and Bill Lawrence – Photo Notes

Who do you like that I should be following?

Tags: dc area photographers, list, photo blogs, photographers

A Plethora of Tripods

We learned this weekend that our favorite spot to view and photograph fireworks in front of the Netherlands Carillon is not a very big secret. We counted over 100 tripods with cameras and lenses of various sizes set up to capture the same images as ours. I even had the pleasure of running into local photog David L. Crooks who found his spot at the top of the hill.  He was flanked in his spot by at least 20 tripods.  Here’s a couple of shots showing that everyone was getting into the action.

Tags: camera, capturing the moment, photographers, Tripod, tripods

PhotoBlogging DC

While surfing the net for Wordpress photoblog themes to include in my presentation on photoblogging at WordCamp I came across Autofocus by Allan Cole.  This theme really stood out to me as the epitome of a photoblog with it’s minimalistic approach. The photo is really the subject of the post, no sidebars or widgets to draw your eye away from the image.  I started to think of a way to utilize this theme in a new project.  Yes thats a little backwards for most projects, normally the project is defined and then a theme identified.  This was a unique case though.

Last month I launched PhotoBlogging DC.  Just like the theme, my purpose was minimalistic:  Bring together and spotlight photos from some of the Washington DC and surrounding area’s talented photographers.

To begin I sent out invitations to contribute to about 15 of my photography friends.  Word spread and as of today we are up to 32 contributors.  Our photographers are of all experience levels, amateur to professional, but they all have one thing in common…they all have a love of photography.  So far I have not turned any prospective contributor away and all but one of the original 15 invites were accepted (you know who you are ).

I didn’t set any hard rules for photo submissions other than they needed to be taken within the DC and surrounding area.  I’ve defined that area as North to the border of Baltimore, West to the Shenandoah Mountains, South to Fredricksburg, and all points East.  This gives us a broad range of subjects from the monuments on the mall to horses in Loudon county.

Each day a new photo is posted so be sure and visit the site and subscribe to our RSS feed.  We also released new badges today so consider adding one to your site.  If you would like to become a PBDC contributor then contact me or leave a comment here with a link to a sample of your photos.

Tags: Digital Photography, Maryland, Photoblog, photoblogging dc, photographers, Virginia, washington dc