Circle-Creator: Thomas Hawk

2012-01-18 23:20:26

500 Profiles, 116 Reshares, 257 +1's, 195 Comments

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1,500 Kick Ass Photographers on Google+ (A-G, Part 1 of 3) http://goo.gl/WGdFw

1,500 Kick Ass Photographers on Google+ (G-O, Part 2 of 3) http://goo.gl/1yiS6

1,500 Kick Ass Photographers on Google+ (P-Z, Part 3 of 3) http://goo.gl/6nLZE

I've shared my photographers circle on Google+ two times now.

Once when it got to 500 and then again when it got to 1,000. Today my circle hit 1,500 so I'm sharing them again.

I have to break them up into 500 person circles because this is the limit on Google+. Also Google limits the number of people you can add to circles per day so I'm going to publish my kick ass photographers circle over 3 days. Today I'm publishing A-G. Tomorrow I'll publish G-O. Friday I'll publish P-Z. By last name.

In addition to the kick ass photographers in these circles I've also added three other accounts. Our new photography hangout show which will be on live tonight at 8PM PST +Photo Talk Plus as well as our show's sponsors +Drobo and +SmugMug as a way of saying thanks to them.

A few notes about these circles. not to be long-winded, but…

Every time I've shared my circles I've gotten haters from it. People who are upset that they are not in them. I absolutely detest that. It makes me not even want to share them because of that. These circles are not meant to be the definitive list of what photographers you should be following on Google+. These circles are simply who I have chosen to follow for photography on Google+ for my own personal consumption. I want to share them because I think YOU may also benefit from having these rich, talented, kick ass photographers in your streams.

This is the circle that I browse every single day looking for great stuff to +1 and comment on Google+ and as such it reflects my own personal biases.

For example. I hate looking at watermarks. This is a personal preference thing. If you use them, more power to you. It's absolutely your right. But as a consumer of photography I find them ugly and distracting and so I tend not to follow people who use them. This is not a big deal. This is not a personal attack against you if you watermark.

This isn't even a universal rule of mine. I do have a few friends who use them that I still follow. But by and large, what you get with my circles is a watermark/signature free circle.

I also prefer people who are active on Google+ both in terms of posting and in terms of contributing to the community. If the last photo you posted was in November, I probably won't have you in this list.

If you were in my photographers circle before but removed, it could be for a lot of these sorts of reasons. Watermarks/sigs, not posting enough, posting too much non photography stuff that I'm not interested in, or all kinds of other things. Who knows. But it's most definitely not personal. (Unless I'm blocking you and then maybe it is personal).

Also if you are not in these circles it may simply be because we don't know each other yet. In time perhaps we will become great friends

Open Circle on Google+

500
  1. Craig Colvin
    United States

    14,941 followers
    4,916 following


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    0 comments per posting
    1 reshares per posting
    1 +1's per posting

  2. Followers on 01/17/2012: 12,112
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 12,307
    Follower difference: 195 (1.61 %)
  3. Corbin Elliott
    Twitter

    14,857 followers
    1,662 following


    Average
    3 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    3 +1's per posting

  4. Followers on 01/17/2012: 4,678
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 4,860
    Follower difference: 182 (3.89 %)
  5. Christopher Cooper
    United StatesTwitterFacebook

    14,818 followers
    311 following


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    0 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    0 +1's per posting

  6. Followers on 01/17/2012: 11,767
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 11,956
    Follower difference: 189 (1.61 %)
  7. LeeAnne Emrick
    United States

    14,798 followers
    151 following


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    0 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    0 +1's per posting

  8. Followers on 01/17/2012: 11,022
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 11,279
    Follower difference: 257 (2.33 %)
  9. Kirsten Bowers
    AustraliaTwitterFacebook

    14,712 followers
    0 following


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    0 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    0 +1's per posting

  10. Followers on 01/17/2012: 2,016
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 2,237
    Follower difference: 221 (10.96 %)
  11. Susana Cabaço (Pintolaranja)
    GermanyTwitterLinkedIn

    14,606 followers
    71 following


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    0 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    1 +1's per posting

  12. Followers on 01/17/2012: 10,819
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 11,126
    Follower difference: 307 (2.84 %)
  13. Vincenzo D C

    14,565 followers
    0 following


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    16 comments per posting
    1 reshares per posting
    39 +1's per posting

  14. Followers on 01/17/2012: 2,921
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 3,209
    Follower difference: 288 (9.86 %)
  15. kat Folland
    United StatesTwitterFacebook

    14,413 followers
    1,747 following


    Average
    8 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    16 +1's per posting

  16. Followers on 01/17/2012: 5,521
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 6,160
    Follower difference: 639 (11.57 %)
  17. Giulio Bassi
    ItalyFacebook

    14,367 followers
    0 following


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    0 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    3 +1's per posting

  18. Followers on 01/17/2012: 12,115
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 12,300
    Follower difference: 185 (1.53 %)
  19. John Getchel
    United States

    14,353 followers
    606 following


    Average
    8 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    0 +1's per posting

  20. Followers on 01/17/2012: 1,671
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 1,876
    Follower difference: 205 (12.27 %)
  21. Michael Diblicek
    France

    14,278 followers
    0 following


    Average
    2 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    4 +1's per posting

  22. Followers on 01/17/2012: 5,164
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 5,808
    Follower difference: 644 (12.47 %)
  23. Andrea Ewald

    14,268 followers
    1,479 following


    Average
    3 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    13 +1's per posting

  24. Nakeva Corothers
    United StatesTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

    14,258 followers
    4,438 following


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    1 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    5 +1's per posting

  25. Followers on 01/17/2012: 9,921
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 10,123
    Follower difference: 202 (2.04 %)
  26. Stephanie Fecik

    14,249 followers
    0 following


    Average
    6 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    45 +1's per posting

  27. Eric Dale
    Twitter

    14,221 followers
    2,309 following


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    0 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    0 +1's per posting

  28. Followers on 01/17/2012: 12,465
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 12,548
    Follower difference: 83 (0.67 %)
  29. Steve Creek
    United StatesTwitterFacebook

    14,218 followers
    0 following


    Average
    1 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    4 +1's per posting

  30. Followers on 01/17/2012: 8,368
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 8,578
    Follower difference: 210 (2.51 %)
  31. Jackson Carson
    United StatesTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

    14,179 followers
    0 following


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    0 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    0 +1's per posting

  32. Followers on 01/17/2012: 5,889
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 6,101
    Follower difference: 212 (3.60 %)
  33. Gheorghe Chesler
    United States

    14,173 followers
    1,050 following


    Average
    4 comments per posting
    1 reshares per posting
    24 +1's per posting

  34. Followers on 01/17/2012: 8,242
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 8,449
    Follower difference: 207 (2.51 %)
  35. John Daley
    Twitter

    14,149 followers
    4,803 following


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    0 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    0 +1's per posting

  36. Followers on 01/17/2012: 8,932
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 9,207
    Follower difference: 275 (3.08 %)
  37. Dante Duphorne
    United States

    14,125 followers
    0 following


    Average
    1 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    6 +1's per posting

  38. Followers on 01/17/2012: 4,116
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 4,177
    Follower difference: 61 (1.48 %)
  39. Jamie Furlong
    IndiaTwitterFacebook

    14,062 followers
    0 following


    Average
    2 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    17 +1's per posting

  40. Followers on 01/17/2012: 6,151
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 6,573
    Follower difference: 422 (6.86 %)
  41. Marina Chen
    United States

    14,035 followers
    0 following


    Average
    4 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    5 +1's per posting

  42. Followers on 01/17/2012: 6,996
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 7,169
    Follower difference: 173 (2.47 %)
  43. Scott BlanksteenVerified in Google
    United StatesTwitterLinkedIn

    14,031 followers
    0 following


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    0 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    0 +1's per posting

  44. Followers on 01/17/2012: 12,327
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 12,523
    Follower difference: 196 (1.59 %)
  45. Don Callaway
    United StatesTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

    13,844 followers
    3,846 following


    Average
    1 comments per posting
    1 reshares per posting
    2 +1's per posting

  46. Followers on 01/17/2012: 8,817
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 9,045
    Follower difference: 228 (2.59 %)
  47. Joshua David Curtis
    United StatesTwitterFacebook

    13,683 followers
    2,945 following


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    0 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    4 +1's per posting

  48. Followers on 01/17/2012: 7,693
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 7,968
    Follower difference: 275 (3.57 %)

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