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. Richard Franco
    JerseyTwitter

    11,924 followers
    0 following


    Average
    8 comments per posting
    2 reshares per posting
    81 +1's per posting

  2. Followers on 01/17/2012: 4,625
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 5,315
    Follower difference: 690 (14.92 %)
  3. Ebby Amir
    United States

    11,919 followers
    0 following


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

  4. Followers on 01/17/2012: 8,816
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 9,091
    Follower difference: 275 (3.12 %)
  5. James Clegg

    11,870 followers
    0 following


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

  6. Followers on 01/17/2012: 7,064
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 7,227
    Follower difference: 163 (2.31 %)
  7. Jeremy Cram
    United StatesFacebook

    11,851 followers
    915 following


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

  8. Followers on 01/17/2012: 2,563
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 2,927
    Follower difference: 364 (14.20 %)
  9. Garrett Gibbons
    United StatesTwitter

    11,844 followers
    324 following


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

  10. Followers on 01/17/2012: 9,459
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 9,713
    Follower difference: 254 (2.69 %)
  11. George Fletcher
    United StatesTwitter

    11,796 followers
    0 following


    Average
    6 comments per posting
    2 reshares per posting
    24 +1's per posting

  12. Followers on 01/17/2012: 2,341
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 2,607
    Follower difference: 266 (11.36 %)
  13. Steve Black
    United StatesTwitter

    11,775 followers
    1,728 following


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

  14. Followers on 01/17/2012: 8,580
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 8,821
    Follower difference: 241 (2.81 %)
  15. Ethan Anderson

    11,724 followers
    178 following


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

  16. Followers on 01/17/2012: 6,774
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 7,002
    Follower difference: 228 (3.37 %)
  17. Jan Friman
    SwedenTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

    11,687 followers
    0 following


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

  18. Followers on 01/17/2012: 7,641
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 8,044
    Follower difference: 403 (5.27 %)
  19. Victoria Cinobar
    Latvia

    11,663 followers
    4,396 following


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

  20. Followers on 01/17/2012: 7,686
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 7,920
    Follower difference: 234 (3.04 %)
  21. Julie de Waroquier
    FranceTwitterFacebook

    11,606 followers
    34 following


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

  22. Followers on 01/17/2012: 7,241
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 7,384
    Follower difference: 143 (1.97 %)
  23. zac eubankVerified in Google
    United StatesTwitterFacebook

    11,573 followers
    1,698 following


    Average
    2 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    7 +1's per posting

  24. Followers on 01/17/2012: 5,397
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 5,633
    Follower difference: 236 (4.37 %)
  25. Jonathan Cohen

    11,539 followers
    1,109 following


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

  26. Followers on 01/17/2012: 4,353
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 4,513
    Follower difference: 160 (3.68 %)
  27. Nate Gardner
    United States

    11,438 followers
    2,529 following


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

  28. Followers on 01/17/2012: 9,231
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 9,292
    Follower difference: 61 (0.66 %)
  29. Glenn Euloth
    CanadaTwitter

    11,298 followers
    3,846 following


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

  30. Followers on 01/17/2012: 7,901
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 8,137
    Follower difference: 236 (2.99 %)
  31. Dusty Doddridge
    Facebook

    11,277 followers
    109 following


    Average
    6 comments per posting
    2 reshares per posting
    22 +1's per posting

  32. Followers on 01/17/2012: 4,364
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 4,603
    Follower difference: 239 (5.48 %)
  33. Arthur Chang
    United StatesTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

    11,272 followers
    342 following


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

  34. Followers on 01/17/2012: 6,988
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 7,142
    Follower difference: 154 (2.20 %)
  35. John Beetham
    Twitter

    11,143 followers
    3,238 following


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

  36. Followers on 01/17/2012: 7,952
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 8,153
    Follower difference: 201 (2.53 %)
  37. Jean Day
    United States

    11,118 followers
    0 following


    Average
    4 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    30 +1's per posting

  38. Followers on 01/17/2012: 2,762
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 3,041
    Follower difference: 279 (10.10 %)
  39. Pete Donohue
    AustraliaTwitter

    11,113 followers
    1,983 following


    Average
    2 comments per posting
    0 reshares per posting
    10 +1's per posting

  40. Followers on 01/17/2012: 4,149
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 4,376
    Follower difference: 227 (5.47 %)
  41. Liz Caldwell
    United States

    11,083 followers
    107 following


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

  42. Followers on 01/17/2012: 6,040
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 6,289
    Follower difference: 249 (4.12 %)
  43. Marvin Anthony
    NetherlandsTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

    11,027 followers
    0 following


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

  44. Followers on 01/17/2012: 8,727
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 9,002
    Follower difference: 275 (3.15 %)
  45. Pierrick Blons
    FranceTwitter

    10,885 followers
    0 following


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

  46. Followers on 01/17/2012: 7,720
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 7,895
    Follower difference: 175 (2.27 %)
  47. Patrick Cartner
    United States

    10,825 followers
    4,690 following


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

  48. Followers on 01/17/2012: 4,316
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 4,424
    Follower difference: 108 (2.50 %)
  49. Robin Andersen
    United StatesTwitter

    10,823 followers
    118 following


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

  50. Followers on 01/17/2012: 9,697
    Followers on 01/19/2012: 9,901
    Follower difference: 204 (2.10 %)

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