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Terry Cobb

8 Years Ago

New Members Wanted (the Coastal Areas Of The Gulf Of Mexico)

I would like to invite photographers and artists on FAA to check out our group (The Coastal Areas of the Gulf of Mexico) and join our membership. I started the group a few months back and it got off to a slow start due to my restricting the location to a small area of Northwest Florida. I recently expanded the criteria for the group to now cover the entire coastal area of the Gulf of Mexico and the membership numbers began to grow. The number of new members has slowed and I've created this discussion to put it back in view and to ask anyone who reads this to please visit our group page, review the images and consider becoming a member. A group is only as big or active as it's membership and I think this one can be one of the best on FAA.

Images submitted do not have to be related just to the beach or the waters of the gulf. They can include the wildlife and water fowl of the coastal area, boats, businesses, buildings, homes, landscapes, people and almost anything that would relate to the area. Images can also be of surrounding areas of the gulf that would be interesting to the viewer (for example, I have one member that shares images of her favorite bass fishing lake situated inshore of the gulf).

I review images daily and try to feature many of them on the home page. I also rotate the featured images and keep them to a limit of 35, making them easier for visitors to view and offering good exposure to the members. I ran one contest already and plan to run them at various times during the year to also enhance exposure of your art.

I hope you'll check us out and join if interested. If you do like what you see and join, please refer others you know on FAA to do the same.

Thanks,
Terry Cobb
Group Administrator
The Coastal Areas of the Gulf of Mexico

Here is the link to the group page:
http://fineartamerica.com/groups/the-coastal-areas-of-the-gulf-of-mexico.html

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Phyllis Beiser

8 Years Ago

Just joined.

 

Terry Cobb

8 Years Ago

Welcome Phyllis - looking forward to the images you'll submit.

 

Barbara Chichester

8 Years Ago

Joined just now....and submitted my first to your group :) I live on the west coast in Nokomis, just south of Sarasota, in sarasota county....love your little piece of heaven, have visited it often. All the best with your new group!

 

Glad to hear about your wonderful group and signed up right away. Living on the Gulf is beyond a doubt ... paradise. Thanks for the thread/info and best of luck with your new group.

 

Terry Cobb

8 Years Ago

Welcome to the group Barbara and thanks for submitting some images right away - I grew up in the Bradenton area and know your location well.

 

Brad Martin

8 Years Ago

I will join with my other account as soon as I can log in again. So just posting so I can follow.

Bradford Martin

 

Terry Cobb

8 Years Ago

Welcome Brad, Penelope, Carolyn and HH Photography to the group. Several of your images have already been featured - beautiful works from a beautiful area!

 

Valerie Reeves

8 Years Ago

I'm in! St Pete Beach is my hometown. Let's see if I can pull a few images together...

 

Joshua House

8 Years Ago

Are you trying to restrict this to just Florida or is everyone along the Gulf Coast allowed to join?

 

Terry Cobb

8 Years Ago

Welcome Valerie - you have a lot of great images in your collection and looking forward to you submitting them.

Joshua - the group is open to anyone (regardless of where they live) that have an appreciation for the Gulf Coast. This covers a large area from the tip of Florida, to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Mexico and all islands in between.

I also administer another group that always welcomes new members: "Seen But Not Noticed". It is focused on the everyday things we see but seldom take notice of. Here is the link to it: http://fineartamerica.com/groups/seen-but-not-noticed.html?tab=overview&removeartworkid=16523439

The Coastal Gulf group is growing and I'm excited to see the wonderful images coming in.

Terry
Administrator

 

Terry Cobb

8 Years Ago

Our membership in the group (The Coastal Areas of the Gulf of Mexico) has more than doubled since this discussion began and welcome all of you that have joined us as a result. I'm seeing some amazing images being submitted and feel honored that you all have shared your talent and art with us. Keep sending in the art as I do my best to check on images daily and feature as many as I can on our home page. As I mentioned earlier in the discussion, I try to keep the number of featured images right around 35 so as new ones are added, I've been taking down the older ones. If it has been a while since you submitted anything, there is a good chance your image may not still be featured. This makes it a good time to send in something new for me to feature and for all to enjoy.

Thanks and spread the news of the group around so we can build up the membership even more.

Terry
Administrator
http://fineartamerica.com/groups/the-coastal-areas-of-the-gulf-of-mexico.html

 

Barbie Corbett-Newmin

8 Years Ago

Hi, fellow gulf coasters! I live on Charlotte Harbor between the Peace River and the Caloosahatchie. I'll join you!

 

Terry Cobb

8 Years Ago

Welcome to the group Barbie - you live in a beautiful part of the coast.

 

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