What is SportsShooter.com?
SportsShooter.com is an online community and resource for sports photographers and other working photojournalists.
It serves as an informative and inspiring site for anyone who aspires to be on the sidelines capturing great moments at their favorite sporting venue.
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Sports Shooter History
Sports Shooter began in 1998 as an e-mail newsletter created by USA Today photographer Robert Hanashiro. His newsletter originally was passed along to a handful of sports photographers, photojournalists and colleagues as a way for Hanashiro to share his experiences, insight, concerns and rants about the state of sports photography.
Over time, Sports Shooter grew to include more than 7,000 subscribers and countless editorial contributions from professional sports photographers who donated their time and shared their wealth of information.
Recognizing the value in the content being shared among this small community of sports photographers, freelance photographer Brad Mangin initially reserved space on his Web site www.manginphotography.com to archive each issue of Sports Shooter along with photos and links not included in the e-mail version of Sports Shooter.
Each article from the archive has been painstakingly edited and categorized into a searchable database that you see on this site today, allowing viewers to research any and all topics covered in the Sports Shooter newsletter over the past several years. |
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SportsShooter.com Staff
The website is the work of many individuals - most importantly, our members, whose work fill this site. The following individuals are the ones who built, and maintain, the container to hold it all - SportsShooter.com
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Jason Burfield
Burfield worked as a commercial and editorial photographer for many years before replacing his cameras and lenses with computers and compilers. Burfield leads all development of SportsShooter.com.
Burfield (and Sanschagrin) also developed and built altpick.com.
Burfield is currently the VP of Application Design for PhotoShelter, the premiere online archive and sales vehicle for professional photographers.
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Joe Gosen
Joe maintains the SportsShooter.com store and assists with product development. He also provides general consulting, advice and opinions on SportsShooter.com products, design concepts and various promotional efforts.
Gosen is on the visual journalism faculty at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, Calif. |
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Robert Hanashiro
Publisher and Editor of the Sports Shooter newsletter, Hanashiro is a staff photographer for USA Today. |
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Brad Mangin
Brad is responsible for the editorial direction and general content plan for SportsShooter.com.
Mangin is a freelance sports photographer based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. |
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Grover Sanschagrin
Sanschagrin is a former photojournalist who has turned his attention to various internet projects, including the SportsShooter.com site you see here today. Sanschagrin was executive producer of altpick.com; manager of interactive product development for chicagotribune.com; and the former director of product development for Quokka Sports.
He is currently the VP of Marketing & Sales for PhotoShelter, the premiere online archive and sales vehicle for professional photographers. |
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Michael Treola
Michael is a New Jersey-based photojournalist and certified boat captain who joined the staff of SportsShooter.com in August, 2003. His experience as a photographer for a daily newspaper bring him an ability to guide new applicants into a productive SportsShooter.com membership. When Mike gives you advice and suggestions - you should listen! |
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Our Web Host
 SportsShooter.com is a dynamic website, changing constantly, eating up a lot of bandwidth, disk space, and CPU power. Most of the site is pulled out of a database each and every time a page is loaded.
Our web host is S2F Online, Inc., a company designed to provide a fast, stable, affordable hosting environment for databse-rich and photo-heavy websites like SportsShooter.com.
S2F Online is the hosting company of choice for some of the world's most accomplished photographers and photo organizations.
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