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The Top Ten Reasons Glamour One is the Powerhouse of Glamour
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1. Community & FamilyThe Classiest Community of Models & Photographers Online since 1999! Oringally founded as Garage Glamour, Glamour One has a million unique visitors per month and over 15,800 registered forum members growing at the average rate of 40-plus, users per day. The number one glamour photography & modeling forum on the Internet based on average posts per day and Google.com rankings. The entire community receives over a million hits per day and 8 million page impressions per month. Join Now! (as of 2/10/06)
2. Search Engine RankingsTen Top Spots in Googlemost #1 in the search resultsno other glamour community even comes close! Ranked #1 under "glamour photography" by Google.com for years!
3. Loaded with Resources More photography tips, reviews, videos, up-to-the-minute news, forums, classifieds, etc., combined than any other glamour photography site on the net!
4. Advertising & ExposureThe only glamour photography & modeling community that advertises in top photography magazinesfor over six yearsmagazines like American Photo, Popular Photography, Studio Photography & Design, Variety(daily edition), Zoom International, Shutterbug, Photo District News, and Digital Imaging, Studio Photography & Design. Frequented by editors of top organizations like Playboy®, Vellum, Style Monte Carlo, Travel Liesure, Low Rider, Street Customs, and casting directors of FOX, CBS, NBC, Spike, WB, UPN, Bravo, and morebased on actual contact with management at Garage Glamour.
5. Press CoverageThe only website featured in two or more top photography magazinesShutterbug & PhotoInsider and more coming soon.
6. Linked to by Top WebsitesThe only glamour model & photography online community linked to by AOL/Compuserve® (not as a search engine result), Playboy.com®, Netscape, and ZugaPhoto websites and more!
7. Ranked Tops in Search Engines Besides the top rankings in Google, Garage Glamour is the only community of glamour models and photographers ranked #1 and in the top ten search results of engines like AOL, Netscape, Go.com, Altavista and more combined.
8. FunctionalityThe original glamour community of photographers and models with zip-code search of model portfolios and photographer portfolios with the ability of displaying portfolios right-off forum posts made by the user. Glamour One is also the only model and photographer website hosted on firewall protected servers on the world's top & most prestigious hosting company, Rackspace.com- with a 99.999% Uptime Guarantee.
9. An Abundance of ResourcesThe only glamour community containing a sleuth of photography and modeling articles by published writers with credentialed photographers, including veteran Playboy photographer David Mecey, celebrity photographer Jerry Avenaim, well-known authors and photographers Art Ketchum, Tom Zimberoff and published writer and photographer Rolando Gomez and more. Additionally, were the only glamour website with XML & Java industry news feeds including free industry video feeds.
10. Solid Credentials that Bring the Attention of the Photo Industry Rolando Gomez, founder & majority owner of Garage Glamour, holds credentials that allow him to market Garage Glamour to the industry, like his national-level photography exposition guest-speaker engagements, 75-consecutively sold-out glamour workshops in 48 months, a Parade cover-story tearsheet (the largest publication in North America, 37-million copies printed each Sunday), published in Playboy products, a contributing writer for Studio Photography & Design and featured on the websites of the U.S. Airforce (www.af.mil), Netscape.com, MSN.com, AOL/Compuserve and many others. His images have also appeared in Petersons 4-Wheel Drive, Airman, Army Times, Soldiers, and over 10,000 photojournalism tearsheets nationwide, including the San Antonio Express News, Miami Herald, LA Times, Denver Post, New York Post, and many more while the Chief, Army & Air Force Hometown News Service, Pictorial Branch.
Originally a photojournalist, Gomez's assignments sent him to 39 countries, many more than once. Since 2003, Gomez is one of only 40 Lexar Media Elite Photographers world-wide (four years running) and most recently was featured in the December 2003, Oct. 2004 and Aug. 2005, Sept. 2005 & Oct. 2005, Jan. 2006, and Feb. 2006 issues of Studio Photography & Design, were he's also contributed as an editor. His last national speaking engagements were at Photo Imaging & Design Expo (2004 & 2005, San Diego), Photo Plus Expo (2004 & 2005, NYC) as one of only nine Lighting Masters--his seminar ranked #2 in attendance. In 1994 he was selected as "One of the Top FIve" military photographers world-wide by the Department of Defense.
Rolando's first book. Garage Glamour : Digital Nude and Beauty Photography Made Simple, (April 2006) by Amherst Media, with book two to follow is now available on Amazon.com. His assignments have allowed him to photograph top figures, including former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, former vice-Presidents Al Gore, Dan Quayle, and other prominent people like Gen. Colin Powell, vice-President Dick Cheney, Vanna White, Alex Trebec, George Strait, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Aaron Tippen, and many more. Gomez has covered historical events including the 50th Anniversary of D-Day in France, Fall of the Berlin Wall, signing of the Peace Accords in El Salvador, Desert Storm, and the Olympic Games, to name a few.
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