Week 20 - David

What is your name?
David Lloyd

What sort of photography do you do?
Wildlife 95%

How long have you been shooting?
Wildlife 7 years, General 25 years

What's your favorite piece of gear? (for example, Lens, Bag, Camera, Tripod, any thing you really love to work with)
Nikon 400mm f/2.8

Where can we find you? Twitter account/s, blogs, galleries, any and all web presence that you feel comfortable sharing.
@davidllo
http://davidlloyd.net
Facebook

Where do you live and work? You can be as specific as providing your lat-long coordinates, or as vague as "planet earth".
London, UK

Is there a Twitter account you would really like to see take over @WeRPhotography for a week?
Not sure as I write

Week 19 - Maree

What is your name?
Maree S Jaeger

What sort of photography do you do?
All and everything-Business wise I specialise in weddings and portraiture.

How long have you been shooting?
Since a child (ie. a really, really, really long time ago) with film- both my parents were photographers so I was lucky to be able to use cameras (film) from a young age.

What's your favorite piece of gear? (for example, Lens, Bag, Camera, Tripod, any thing you really love to work with)
I love my Canon 5D MK III…and all my lenses and all my gear. I love it all.

Where can we find you? Twitter account/s, blogs, galleries, any and all web presence that you feel comfortable sharing
Web: www.mareejaeger.com.au
Blog www.mareejaeger.com.au/blog
Twitter MJPhotographer
Facebook

Where do you live and work? You can be as specific as providing your lat-long coordinates, or as vague as "planet earth".
I live on planet MJ and also earth on occasions! Currently live in Victoria, Australia- from Tasmania- work everywhere/anywhere.

Is there a Twitter account you would really like to see take over @WeRPhotography for a week?
@sue_bryce

Week 18 - Edie

What is your name?
Edie Howe-Byrne

What sort of photography do you do?
Fine Art Landscape, specializing in black and white

How long have you been shooting?
8 years

What's your favorite piece of gear? (for example, Lens, Bag, Camera, Tripod, any thing you really love to work with)
My eyes! 

Where can we find you? Twitter account/s, blogs, galleries, any and all web presence that you feel comfortable sharing.
@Edie_Howe
Little Red Tent

Where do you live and work? You can be as specific as providing your lat-long coordinates, or as vague as "planet earth".
Yosemite National Park

Is there a Twitter account you would really like to see take over @WeRPhotography for a week?
Michael Frye (@MFryePhoto)
Leonard Nimoy (@TheRealNimoy)

Week 17 - Katrina

What is your name?
Katrina Kennedy.

What sort of photography do you do?
I like to call myself an everyday photographer. I started my first 365 project in 2008. I've missed two days in 5 years!

How long have you been shooting?
Most of my life. 

What's your favorite piece of gear? (for example, Lens, Bag, Camera, Tripod, any thing you really love to work with)
I love my Canon 17-40mm lens.

Where can we find you? Twitter account/s, blogs, galleries, any and all web presence that you feel comfortable sharing.
CaptureYour365 - my site for inspiration, ideas, and support for everyday photographers (with classes too) 
Twitter: @katrinakennedy
Facebook group: Capture your 365
Flickr group: Capture your 365

Where do you live and work? You can be as specific as providing your lat-long coordinates, or as vague as "planet earth".
California.

Is there a Twitter account you would really like to see take over @WeRPhotography for a week?

Avatar Challenge

Recently, when I was doing the three-day overlap to change from Friday-Thursday to Monday-Sunday guest tweeter schedule, I asked a question about Twitter avatars for rotation curation accounts.

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(tl:dr Make/find/buy* us an overlay that we can use as brand identification on Twitter while still allowing our guest tweeters freedom to identify themselves during their week.)

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My decision is that the best way to handle the competing challenges of brand recognition and guest freedom is to go with a standard overlay that all guest tweeters would put over their chosen avatar pic.

But what overlay? Good question. A very good question. A difficult question. What's the next question? Ask me one on sport!

I think that, first and foremost, we need an overlay that says "Photographer!" loud and clear. It also needs to take up very little room on a square frame, and it needs to have lots of transparent space that allows the guest tweeter's chosen avatar pic to show through.

Actually, very first and very foremost, it has to be an image which is copyright free or to which we could be granted a licence for free. We don't want to be "that guy".

So I turn to you, gentle reader, and ask you to solve the problems. There are three things you could possibly do to help.

• Design a graphic overlay and grant us a license to use it as a Twitter avatar, and possibly here on this blog as well,
• Find a suitable Creative Commons licensed image and let us know about it, or
• Find a suitable copyright image and buy* us a license to use it as a Twitter avatar.

A suggestion:

Given the size (128px) and shape (square) limitations, I like the idea of a combination of a colour wheel and an aperture ring.  Something like this one, but at f/2 rather than f/8. (If you're a non-photographer designer coming here to win fame and fortune, that means with a bigger open inner circle.)

Another problem would be where to store this image and how to make it available to guest tweeters. Feedback I've received from other rotation curation accounts that use an overlay indicates that the admin solicits an avatar pic from the upcoming guest tweeter, applies the overlay and then sets the avatar during the handover housekeeping period. I would suggest that most, if not all, of @WeRPhotography's guest tweeters would have the ability to do this themselves.

NOTE: If you are considering being a guest tweeter, but you can't do this due to a lack of software, experience or for other reasons, please, please don't let that put you off. It's your photographic vision that we want you to share, not necessarily your technical skills.

So! Please, please, please, get to it. Make/find/buy* us an overlay that we can use as brand identification on Twitter while still allowing our guest tweeters freedom to identify themselves during their week.

If you have something, please leave a link in the comments or tweet/DM them to @WeRPhotography or @JustJimWillDo.

*Please don't just pay out money for something without checking with me first!