I find lots of good stuff on Flickr. I search for groups that have subject areas where I would expect to find the type of stuff that interests me, and page through group postings looking for someone interesting. When I find a photo or two I like, I go look at all that person's stuff. There are some amazingly good people there.
Flickr's system is well set up for that type of browsing [rant]500px is TERRIBLE--what kind of service that supposedly respects photography turns everything into a square thumbnail?!??! That's an insult--a browser made for people who look for things like photos with puppies or breasts in them, not for strong photographs--it's like cropping a two inch square word block out of the middle of a book to show how someone writes.[/rant]
I don't expect anyone on Flickr to deliver 100%, but I appreciate people who have a good eye and can consistently come up with something that's pretty good. Anyway, for me I found that many of the people whose work I like are from Russia and Italy--I have no idea why that would be.
There are a few personal contacts in here, but mostly these are photographers I have found who I don't know, but like their work:
https://www.flickr.com/people/michaeldarnton/contacts/
https://www.flickr.com/people/mdarnton/contacts/
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