New logo for popular WordPress photography / gallery company

Photocrati

ANOTHER UPDATE: One direction that might be interesting to us as far
as the icon is something that says "gallery". Our products are
basically products for photography websites and online gallery
management. So a gallery icon, masonry gallery icon, or filmstrip
icon, etc might work. I'm thinking of things in the style of:
https://cdn0.iconfinder.com/data/ic…20-512.png
or
http://alleycatthemes.com/themes/al…ons-06.png
or
http://satoristudio.net/ikebana/wp-…e_size.png
or
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-112…wVkgA-1-12
or
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-115…wVkgA-1-14
NOTE - I'm just trying to stir some thinking and ideas, not dictate a
preconceived design we have mind. We may go a different direction.
This just one thing we're talking about that might work.

UPDATE: Just an update with a few more thoughts a day or two in.
1) For icons, most icons we're seeing are cameras, lens/aperature
symbols, and P's. The challenge is that camera's and lens/aperture
symbols are both really common in the photography industry and so
probably less distinctive and "cool" than we want (at least in most
current examples). The challenge with P is we'll want to extend the
logo to NextGEN Gallery (NG), so that's just something we'd need to
anticipate. We'd love to see someone try to take the icons some other
direction ( though I have no idea what :).
2) We'll most likely pay the winning designer to do our NextGEN
Gallery logo as well - it should be basically the same.
3) Beyond icons, one thing that might be worth trying is breaking
photocrati into two parts to highlight [photo]crati. Most likely for
that we'd need to do without an icon, but we'd be interested in
seeing
those designs as well.

*Here's our current site: http://www.photocrati.com
*It will be redesigned to match this site:
http://www.nextgen-gallery.com
*The same logo style will be used to replace the NextGEN Gallery logo
you see on that second site. We'll either do that our selves, or hire
the developer of the new Photocrati logo to do so, depending on the
circumstances.
*I'm attaching a copy of our old logo
*We'd like the default logo color to be white or gray scale so it can
be used anywhere, then if we want to add some of the old green, we
may. Not sure.
*I'm fairly certain we're going to want to have a icon or symbol
along side the text, and that we'd want that icon/symbol to be
distinctive and cool enough that we could periodically use the symbol
alone without the word Photocrati, and people would still know what
it
was referring to.
*We're going to prefer symbol/icon to the left or right of the text,
not above or below.
*We *may* want the icon to convey something about galleries (ie,
online masonry-style photo galleries), photography, images, cameras,
camera view finders, lenses, etc. Our company is
image/gallery/photographer focused. If the icon is cool enough, we'd
go with it anyways, but if it's cool and says "gallery" or
"photography" even better.
*Some examples of logos we like:
- https://www.shootproof.com/
- http://squarespace.com
-
http://99designs.com/logo-design/co…entries/60
-
http://99designs.com/logo-design/co…/entries/3
(except symbol to left or right rather than above)
-
http://99designs.com/logo-design/co…ntries/136
(except symbol to left or right rather than above)
-
http://99designs.com/logo-design/co…entries/91
-
http://99designs.com/logo-design/co…dit-435446
-
http://99designs.com/logo-design/co…entries/61
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http://99designs.com/logo-design/co…entries/65
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http://99designs.com/logo-design/co…entries/58
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http://99designs.com/logo-design/co…ntries/171
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http://99designs.com/logo-design/co…ntries/259