SHORELINES

4 Shor e l i n e S | 2015 Vol :2 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 - Billy Brown Is there anything better than being a kid in the summertime? On a hot, sunny day this June, we joined the Norris, Smith and Guffey families for an afternoon on Lake Martin. Amid splashing, cannonball jumps and walks along the shore, we captured Joseph Guffey splashing with a bucket of water. S TAFF WRITERS GilBert nicholson Mike toMBerlin Bi l ly Brow n Cover 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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