I don't know if I'd put it in the "dirty little secret" category or not, but it's certainly one of the realities that we face in producing GCM each month -- we ask folks for WAY more photos to include in stories than we can actually use in those stories.
Take this month's lead story on the winners of the GCSAA/Golf Digest Environmental Leaders in Golf Awards. All four of the top winners provided us with boatloads of great photos of themselves, their facilities (like this course shot from public winner Jim Brown,
CGCS, at Newport Dunes GC in Port Aransas, Texas), the wildlife they see there (like the alligator from international winner Brett Morris and the eagle
from private winner Roger Stewart, CGCS, at TPC Twin Cities) and some of the environmental efforts they had undertaken on those courses. But aside from the feature on overall winner Terry Stratton of Little River (Calif.) Inn Golf and Tennis Resort, which included five or six photos, the other three winners were relegated, because of space constraints, to a photo of themselves and a photo of their course in their story.
Well, thanks to modern technologies like this blog, we can now showcase more of the photos that formerly would only gather dust on GCSAA's computer servers. If you look on the right side of this page, you'll see a photo album called "2010 ELGA Winners," that has a very randomly organized (seriously ... it's extremely random) collection of photos that we received as we prepared the GCM stories on this year's winners.
The descriptions are rather vague -- time limited me in some cases, and in others, I didn't really know exactly what I was looking at -- but at the very least you'll know what course you're looking at.
Let me know what you think of this, because with the majority of feature stories in the magazine, we receive way more photos than we have space to publish. Is this something you'd look at if we continued to do it? Is it offering anything additional to your reading experience? Should I stop typing now? Let your voice be heard!
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