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4 Shor e l i n e S | 2015 Vol :3 S TAFF GUE S T S CONTRIBUTORS ©2015 Alabama Power 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. Gr aham yelTon Cover photographer A Nashville native, now Birmingham resident, Yelton graduated with a degree in graphic design from Samford University. After six years in the agency world, she decided to step out on her own and focus on freelance graphic design and photography. She delights in branding new businesses and photographing food, fashion, products and homes. She loves all things clever, surprising, simple and colorful. Yelton and her husband, Jay, live in Homewood, a suburb of Birmingham. They live with their three dogs, Mister, Maggie and Mezi, and spend most (warm) weekends tending to their small garden. 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. 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. Cover image – Gr aham yelTon On a bright, crisp fall day, it's hard to imagine anything more inviting than relaxing in a comfortable chair with a beautiful view of the lake. S TAFF WRITERS GilBerT nicholson anna caTherine roBerson 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.

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