Accreditations & Experience
Rupert has had a Google+ profile from within days of launch over 5 years ago, creating and managing pages and communities as they became available. has been a member of Google's Top Contributor Program for over 2 years, which has led to him being invited by Google to attend exclusive events in their offices, in London, Dublin and San Francisco. He had a Google+ Collection featured and promoted by Google from his personal profile and a brand page profile within days of the launch of Collections. When the Google+ Create program was launched early in 2016, Rupert was included as one of the founder members of the program.
Create was launched by Google in early 2016 to celebrate and recognise outstanding contributions to Google+. Rupert's work on the platform over the preceding years was recognised by Google by including him in the initial cohort of users that the program launched with. The Google+ Create program is the only formal method of requesting that your content and creations on Google+ are reviewed and potentially awarded the much coveted verification badge. As well as other advantages such as priority consideration for collections being featured, photography being featured on Google's Chromecast and other perks, such as direct contact with Google+ community managers.
Rupert has been adding images to Google Maps for a few years now, from the initial days when Google Views allowed users to geo-tag photos onto Google Maps and make them available to the public, to the current heavily integrated inclusion of photos and photospheres in Google Maps and Google Street View. Becoming a Google Street View Trusted Photographer was a natural progression due to the number of high-quality photospheres published on Google Maps and available now in Google Street View. Many of the previously added photospheres will show the progression in technique and experience, as well as the advances in equipment and software available to improve the quality of the images.
