The aspect of determining the photographer who took a set is one of the more tricky subjects which Wacs seeks to tackle. Outside of the AT Kingdom group (AMK, ATE, ATKP and so one) and a few sites that pride themselves on their photographic prowess (like Met-Art and Femjoy) or are specific to a single photographer (like EuroNudes), relatively few other sites explicitly identify the photographer which is a huge shame. Those of us with significant exposure to what is out there will however come to recognise the style and favourite locations of certain photographers to the point of being able to make educated guesses as to who took the photos. One of our hopes for the future projects in exchange of Wacs meta information is that we can share these guesses and thus provide photographer cross references across a number of sites. We preload a small number of photographer details into the Wacs database, mostly those where we have made a positive identification of their work on more than one web site.

Here our worked example is looking at the work of Sean Ryan, aka Sweet Photography, who is prolific, very recognisable in his style and standard wardrobe and very good (in our opinion). Beaky also particularly likes his taste in models!

As usual we select the desired subject from the pulldown menu and click on Submit Query in order to retrieve the record. In absense of any better scheme, we've choosen to adopt the scheme used by the ATK sites of using an appropriate group of three initials in capitals to identify photographers.

As you can see, we've included quite a lot of information about the photographer allowing us to build a fairly detailed biography page at some later date should the opportunity arise. Again only a small amount of this data is actively used at the present time, and so long as the abreivated code and name is present, it should work fine.