PhotoShelter Newsletter | July 2009

It's finally stopped raining here in NYC! But we're NOT taking time off this summer because we're busy making PhotoShelter better. This month, we introduce LEARN - a new (and growing) resource center to help your photo business.

In this issue:

• LEARN: A New Photography Resource
• July Webinar Schedule
• Photog interview - Randy Santos
• Virual Agency's Hot New Look
• 3 Ways to Make More Money With Your Photos (Video)
• July Photography Grants: Bellingham & Belarus
• Come Meet Us...
• Shout Outs, High Fives,

LEARN: A New Photography Resource

We're proud to announce a new section for some of our top content by PhotoShelter staff and top photographers (and PhotoShelter users) like these:

• Baseball Photography by Brad Mangin
• Celebrity Photography by Paul Smith
• Concert Photograpy by Chris Owyoung
• Food Photography by Lou Manna
• The Business of Editorial Photography by Brian Smith

Plus resources on photography sales, websites, storage and more!

» Learn Photography

July Webinars

Due to your requests, we've scheduled a number of webinars in the evening (EDT). Join Allen and Rachel to get the most from your PhotoShelter account with live webinars, and participate in the Q&A.

• Monday, July 13, 8pm: Get Seen: PhotoShelter's Guide to SEO
• Tuesday, July 14, 8pm: Configuring SEO in your PhotoShelter Account
• Wednesday, July 15, 8pm: In the Know: PhotoShelter's Guide to Google Analytics
• Monday, July 20, 4pm: Intro to PhotoShelter: The Basics
• Friday, July 31, 1pm: Monetizing Your Archive With PhotoShelter (Sales Setup)

» View the schedule & register

Innovative Sales: DC Stock Photographer Randy Santos

Self-taught photographer Randy Santos combines a solid understanding of his buyers with Search Engine Optimization to build a stock photo business of Washington DC landmarks and Americana to sell images without using an agency or marketplace.

» Read how Randy sells images to hotels and more

Virtual Agency's Hot New Look

With our Virtual Agency, you can join with other PhotoShelter members and market your work collectively - but the sales still go direct to you. We just upgraded the look too - so now your agency logo can be featured prominently and navigation is simpler. This week, we also welcome WILD Photography - a Virtual Agency by outdoor photography legends Art Wolfe, Tom Mangelsen, and David Doubilet.

» Create Your Virtual Agencies
» WILD Photography — VA Example
» Art Wolfe Comments on using PhotoShelter in Outdoor Photographer

3 Ways to Make More Money With Your Photos

Are you using PhotoShelter to get an advantage in selling your work? In this video, we take a look at 3 key features you can use - Personal Use Downloads, Trusted Client Access, and our SEO tools.

» Watch 3 ways to make more money

July Photography Grant Winners

In May, we announced the creation of a PhotoShelter Grant for local photography initiatives. We're happy to announce the July grant winners:

• The Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference
• The Belarus Center of Photography: Visual Documents Photopracticum

» Read more about the winners

Come Meet Us

Did you miss us at the Stock Artist Alliance MetaSmart Seminars? No problem. Come see us in July at these events:

• 7/16: The Photo Club at New York's LGBT Center
• 7/30 - 8/2 VJ Multimedia Workshop at the Brooks Institute

Shout Outs, Back Pats & High Fives

• Congrats to Paul Wager for earning 3 1st place awards & 3 honorable mentions from Prix de la Photographie Paris.
• Congrats to Matthew McMullen Smith for garnering Black and White Magazine's Excellence Award for their 2009 Photo Contest.
• Congrats to Joeff Davis on being named the Atlanta Press Club's Photojournalist of the Year.
• A belated shout out to Cameron Davidson for an 18-page spread in the Washington Post Sunday Magazine for his work on the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
• Charlie Mahoney has been working double time. He was selected as a finalist in the City of Gijon International Photojournalism Award for his work on African immigrants in Spain and in Time Magazine's Asia Edition.
• Our VP of Marketing, Andrew Fingerman, is a model!
• Special thanks to the many PhotoShelter members who joined us for panels at the SAA's Photometadata Tour, including Brad Mangin, Brian Smale, David Sanger, Helena Ruffin, Andrea Wilson, Sara Wolfram, Chris Owyoung, Lou Manna, Garfield Hall, Randy Santos, Joe Tresh, and John Harrington.

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