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It’s been a really long time since I highlighted some of the reader submissions to the Sublime Light Flickr Pool. I think some refreshing is in order.

But first, let me hand out a few updates about the blog. First off, long time readers have undoubtedly noticed a significant drop in the posts over the last six months. As you know I moved from Texas to Colorado during this time, and right about the time I was ready to pick things up again, we decided to start a new business. We’re opening up a retail store in our new home town. In addition to that, we’ll be opening up a studio location for our portrait photography business.

Needless to say, I’ve got my hands full.

Despite my neglect of this blog however, the traffic keeps picking up. More and more people find this blog every day, and of particular interest is the Portrait Lighting For Beginners series (which I will someday finish).

To date Sublime Light has around 600 feed subscribers and gets around 500 extra visitors a day that don’t subscribe. These visitors come from more than 110 countries! Some of these are a little surprising to me (I honestly don’t know why, but they are). For example, 30th on the list is Qatar. Or how about Vatican City. How cool is that?

You guys are coming from all over the world and are coming together based on your love of photography. Awesome!

Reader Photos
OK, enough of that. Let’s see some of my favorite photos submitted to the pool recently.

I’ll start off with Rex Lisman, the pool’s most prolific photo adder guy. Rex’s specialty seems to be senior portraits, something I haven’t dabbled in much but would like to.

I really like Rex’s style of putting these teens in a nice relaxed natural setting in Arkansas. There’s some really beautiful landscape there, and that certainly can’t hurt things. One thing I like about Rex’s work is that even with the strong settings, he still manages to get your attention on to the subject.

Next on to our next biggest contributor, Anthony HB2007. Warning, don’t click to his photostream if you’re at work. Whoops. IT guys, it was an accident, I swear.

Anthony’s photostream is full of beautiful models, which certainly can’t hurt your images. Some are fully clothed. Some are…well…shall we say less than fully clothed. But there’s one thing he does well, he puts the right light on the right model.

Take this image for example. Soldis, his Icelandic model has some of the most arresting eyes I’ve seen in a long time. Anthony put the light directly on her face to really accentuate those eyes. Beautiful!

TimpWeb created this next very unique image. There was clearly some post production going on here, but I really like the departure from typical portraiture. One commenter says it looks like a movie poster. I’d have to agree!

From time to time fabsenstylsen posts a unique photo to the pool. There’s something about this next one. I dig the lighting. I’d tell you more about fabsenstylsen, but I never took German.

There are lots more fantastic photos in the pool. I’d encourage you to check it out. I’d show you more, but I’m out of time. You’ll just have to go have a look for yourself. Better yet, join the 263 members and post some of your own!

UPDATE: Now how did I know that Anthony’s photostream would receive a bunch of traffic after this post went out?