Photo sharing service Jalbum has just announced a new collaboration with world-renowned photographer Jack Hollingsworth. In a series of events, the Jalbum community of photography enthusiasts will gather around a common theme, lead and tutored by Jack Hollingsworth. Each event will include a blog post introducing the subject, a competition element and a user group on Jalbum.net where anyone can participate. The first theme is close-up photography.

Website: Close-up with Jack Hollingsworth

Jalbum Press Release

Jack Hollingsworth takes on the Jalbum community in a series of Theme Shoots

Stockholm, April 21, 2010. Today, photo-sharing service Jalbum.net announces a new collaboration with world-renowned photographer Jack Hollingsworth. In a series of events, the massive Jalbum community of photography enthusiasts will gather around a common theme, lead and tutored by Jack Hollingsworth. Each event will include a blog post introducing the subject, a competition element and a user Group on Jalbum.net where anyone can participate. The first theme is Close-up photography (http://jalbum.net/blog/entry/close-up-with-jack-hollingsworth), followed by Portraits, Street, Urbex and HDR photography.

New gallery template

Along with the announcement of Theme shoots, Jalbum is also releasing a new gallery template designed by the Jack Hollingsworth team. The gallery template geared towards photography professionals, includes YouTube and Vimeo integration, smooth transitions and a slide show option. The template will be available for download and use on any web site.

“We’re very happy to welcome Jack Hollingsworth to the Jalbum community. His enthusiasm and photography expertise will inspire thousands of Jalbumers in the upcoming Theme Shoots”, says Carl Manneh, CEO of Jalbum.

About Jack Hollingsworth
Jack Hollingsworth is easily one of photography’s most well know names in commercial lifestyle, world and stock photography. Known as @photojack on Twitter, he has over 15,000 followers and that number is growing daily. Long before the Twitter boom, Jack was a well-known name in stock photography helping to found BlendImages, PhotosIndia, Chopsticks and 40260. Jack travels the world shooting, teaching, lecturing, and blogging, as well as leading photo tours, workshops and seminars.

About Jalbum
Jalbum has enabled amateur and professional photographers alike to publish more than 29 million photo albums. With Jalbum you easily create your own photo album site, and publish it anywhere. The first version of Jalbum software was released as a hobby project by founder David Ekholm in 2002 and has been granted numerous awards from companies like Softpedia, About.com, Download.com and Tucows. For high-resolution pictures and additional info, please contact Carl Manneh:?

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