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. Tom AndersonVerified in Google
    United StatesTwitterFacebook

    5,081,827 followers
    0 following


    Average
    152 comments per posting
    145 reshares per posting
    1624 +1's per posting

  2. Followers on 01/17/2012: 938,900
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 959,315
    Follower difference: 20,415 (2.17 %)
  3. Sergey BrinVerified in Google
    United States

    3,832,283 followers
    0 following


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

  4. Followers on 01/17/2012: 838,827
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 857,521
    Follower difference: 18,694 (2.23 %)
  5. Ron GaranVerified in Google
    United StatesTwitterFacebook

    3,013,369 followers
    643 following


    Average
    22 comments per posting
    42 reshares per posting
    308 +1's per posting

  6. Followers on 01/17/2012: 840,681
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 869,879
    Follower difference: 29,198 (3.47 %)
  7. Colby BrownVerified in Google
    United StatesTwitterFacebook

    2,475,271 followers
    0 following


    Average
    42 comments per posting
    31 reshares per posting
    378 +1's per posting

  8. Followers on 01/17/2012: 476,252
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 493,216
    Follower difference: 16,964 (3.56 %)
  9. Ron CliffordVerified in Google
    CanadaFacebookLinkedIn

    1,879,519 followers
    559 following


    Average
    19 comments per posting
    9 reshares per posting
    139 +1's per posting

  10. Followers on 01/17/2012: 22,493
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 22,820
    Follower difference: 327 (1.45 %)
  11. Jennifer BaileyVerified in Google
    United StatesTwitter

    1,873,431 followers
    0 following


    Average
    39 comments per posting
    20 reshares per posting
    221 +1's per posting

  12. Followers on 01/17/2012: 451,230
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 468,921
    Follower difference: 17,691 (3.92 %)
  13. Barry BlanchardVerified in Google
    United StatesFacebook

    1,789,829 followers
    2,390 following


    Average
    57 comments per posting
    53 reshares per posting
    601 +1's per posting

  14. Followers on 01/17/2012: 13,310
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 13,621
    Follower difference: 311 (2.34 %)
  15. Lotus CarrollVerified in Google
    United StatesTwitterFacebook

    1,711,521 followers
    2,535 following


    Average
    26 comments per posting
    13 reshares per posting
    317 +1's per posting

  16. Followers on 01/17/2012: 478,131
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 498,832
    Follower difference: 20,701 (4.33 %)
  17. Victor BezrukovVerified in Google
    United StatesTwitterFacebook

    1,652,742 followers
    2,761 following


    Average
    22 comments per posting
    17 reshares per posting
    309 +1's per posting

  18. Followers on 01/17/2012: 456,997
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 474,781
    Follower difference: 17,784 (3.89 %)
  19. Patrick Di FrusciaVerified in Google
    CanadaTwitterFacebook

    1,642,410 followers
    2,566 following


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

  20. Followers on 01/17/2012: 464,314
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 481,543
    Follower difference: 17,229 (3.71 %)
  21. Lisa BettanyVerified in Google
    CanadaTwitterFacebook

    1,613,783 followers
    535 following


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

  22. Followers on 01/17/2012: 573,058
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 593,055
    Follower difference: 19,997 (3.49 %)
  23. Dave BeckermanVerified in Google
    United StatesTwitterFacebook

    1,556,236 followers
    1,268 following


    Average
    7 comments per posting
    5 reshares per posting
    97 +1's per posting

  24. Followers on 01/17/2012: 428,760
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 446,436
    Follower difference: 17,676 (4.12 %)
  25. Jeremy CowartVerified in Google
    United StatesTwitterFacebook

    1,505,132 followers
    326 following


    Average
    2 comments per posting
    1 reshares per posting
    34 +1's per posting

  26. Followers on 01/17/2012: 389,765
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 404,700
    Follower difference: 14,935 (3.83 %)
  27. Dave CoxVerified in Google
    United StatesTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

    1,497,466 followers
    2,833 following


    Average
    16 comments per posting
    35 reshares per posting
    152 +1's per posting

  28. Followers on 01/17/2012: 382,123
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 398,971
    Follower difference: 16,848 (4.41 %)
  29. Adde AdesokanVerified in Google
    TwitterFacebook

    1,312,972 followers
    0 following


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

  30. Followers on 01/17/2012: 14,254
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 14,621
    Follower difference: 367 (2.57 %)
  31. Alfie GoodrichVerified in Google
    JapanTwitterLinkedIn

    1,224,872 followers
    0 following


    Average
    10 comments per posting
    5 reshares per posting
    162 +1's per posting

  32. Followers on 01/17/2012: 392,625
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 410,034
    Follower difference: 17,409 (4.43 %)
  33. Lee DanielsVerified in Google
    United StatesTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

    1,067,448 followers
    0 following


    Average
    45 comments per posting
    48 reshares per posting
    432 +1's per posting

  34. Followers on 01/17/2012: 26,106
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 26,479
    Follower difference: 373 (1.43 %)
  35. Juan GonzalezVerified in Google
    United StatesTwitterFacebook

    783,356 followers
    0 following


    Average
    6 comments per posting
    4 reshares per posting
    82 +1's per posting

  36. Followers on 01/17/2012: 6,181
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 6,457
    Follower difference: 276 (4.47 %)
  37. Athena CareyVerified in Google
    Switzerland

    560,279 followers
    2,025 following


    Average
    43 comments per posting
    19 reshares per posting
    290 +1's per posting

  38. Followers on 01/17/2012: 39,345
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 40,405
    Follower difference: 1,060 (2.69 %)
  39. Jessy EykendorpVerified in Google
    IndonesiaTwitterFacebook

    469,247 followers
    0 following


    Average
    64 comments per posting
    18 reshares per posting
    263 +1's per posting

  40. Followers on 01/17/2012: 36,969
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 37,440
    Follower difference: 471 (1.27 %)
  41. Joe AzureVerified in Google
    United StatesTwitter

    452,279 followers
    2,916 following


    Average
    24 comments per posting
    17 reshares per posting
    198 +1's per posting

  42. Followers on 01/17/2012: 40,363
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 40,858
    Follower difference: 495 (1.23 %)
  43. Sam Breach
    United StatesFacebook

    406,812 followers
    2,881 following


    Average
    32 comments per posting
    5 reshares per posting
    117 +1's per posting

  44. Followers on 01/17/2012: 9,840
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 10,016
    Follower difference: 176 (1.79 %)
  45. Sara Byrne
    United StatesTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

    397,513 followers
    2,471 following


    Average
    17 comments per posting
    7 reshares per posting
    99 +1's per posting

  46. Followers on 01/17/2012: 4,157
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 4,321
    Follower difference: 164 (3.95 %)
  47. Bill Gekas
    AustraliaTwitterFacebook

    303,100 followers
    0 following


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

  48. Followers on 01/17/2012: 8,035
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 8,325
    Follower difference: 290 (3.61 %)
  49. Brandon Campeaux
    United StatesTwitterLinkedIn

    260,575 followers
    0 following


    Average
    1 comments per posting
    2 reshares per posting
    9 +1's per posting

  50. Followers on 01/17/2012: 268,031
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 268,168
    Follower difference: 137 (0.05 %)

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