SHORELINES

4 Shor e l i n e S | 2015 Vol :1 BoB Blalock, manager of the Content Development Team 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. allison 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. Dan Guffey is a graphic designer at Alabama Power whose work has won local and regional ADDY awards, a Utilities Communicators International award as well as an appearance in Print's Regional Design Annual. cover imaGe - DaviD warren David Warren is a resident of Smith Lake whose eye for sunsets and panorama photography caught our attention. S TAFF WRITERS GilBert nicholson, mike tomBerlin Dav i D wa r r e n Cover photographer The cover photo brings a different look at Lewis Smith Lake – from the air. This image was shot by David Warren, a photographer based in Cullman. Warren likes to show off the beauty of Alabama from above and specializes in aerial photography. "Taking photos from above shows a whole new perspective," he says. Warren takes aerial photos for a variety of customers through his business, Cullman Aerial Photography. Bi l ly Brow n Contributing photographer Billy Brown, a Birmingham photographer with a passion for image- making, has been creating photographs for more than 25 years. He specializes in people, and his award-winning work covers an extensive range of advertising, editorial and corporate assignments. Clients include Southern Company, Hanes, Saks, Energen, Oracle, Xerox, Verizon and General Electric. His photographs have appeared in many national publications, including Forbes, Dance, Seventeen, Black Enterprise, Ad Week and The Wall Street Journal. S TAFF GUE S T S CONTRIBUTORS ©2015 Alabama Power

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