Contributors
Staff
Bob Blalock, a senior
communications strategist at Alabama
Power, was an award-winning
journalist in Alabama for more
than three decades, mostly at The
Birmingham News. He was named
The News' first senior reporter, and as
editorial page editor led a project that
was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
guests
Dan Guffey is a visual
communications specialist at
Alabama Power whose work has
won ADDY awards, a Utilities
Communicators International award
as well as an appearance in Print's
Regional Design Annual.
Staff contributors
M arvin Gilmore
Brandon Glover
Theresa Helms
Bill Snow
K eisa Sharpe
A llison Westlake is a communications
specialist at Alabama Power. She has
served on the staffs of Coastal Living
and Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade
magazines, with work published in
Celebrate magazine and Julep, an
online publication.
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Contributing photographer
A former senior photographer for
Southern Living magazine, Joe
DeSciose is an award-winning
photographer whose images have
been published in The New York
Times Magazine, as well as Conde
Nast, Hearst and numerous other
publications. The Birmingham resident
has lived in Colorado, Madrid,
Barcelona and New York City.
Cover image Under a leaden
late November
sky, photographer
Joe DeSciose
captured an
arresting shot of
the Plymouth
Lighthouse
decorated for the holidays. The lighthouse
is at Children's Harbor on Lake Martin.
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