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4 Shor e l i n e S | 2014 Vol :4 CONTR IBU TORS ©2014 Alabama Power S TAFF STAFF CONTRIBUTORS Br andon Glover GilBert nicholson GUE S T S cover imaGe - Scotty and Jane Howell decorate their sailboat on Lake Martin for the holidays. Both natives of Alexander City, Scotty and Jane grew up with a love of the lake, even raising their family on Lake Martin. From their home on the lake, the Howells can enjoy some of the most beautiful sunsets the lake has to offer. Photograph by Wynter Byrd. Wynter Byrd Contributing photographer Wynter Byrd is an award- winning photographer and videographer with more than 26 years of experience. She has photographed three American presidents. She earned an Emmy for her work on "Gorbachev Walk-About" and was nominated for another for "Kids at Risk" with the Public Broadcasting Service-BBC. Byrd won a Kodak Award for her photography on "Where the Children Come From," also with PBS- BBC. Byrd's work has been featured on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, BBC and FOX. 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. 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 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.

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