AKRON, Ohio -- She is the consummate Akron photographer, taking poignant pictures for a half-dozen local publications including Akron Life Magazine, the Devil Strip, Edible Cleveland, the Akron Art Museum and The Akronist.

Over the past year Shane Wynn has embarked on her greatest collection of Akron photographs, a 1,400-plus photo archive detailing the city in beautiful wide-angle high definition photographs.

That collection, sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Downtown Akron Partnership, is now available for anyone to use on Akronstock.com.

The project intersected the missions of the Knight Foundation and Downtown Akron Partnership, both of which had contacted Wynn separately to update their photo collections.

"There are images out there that have been stock photos for who knows how long," said Sharon Gilbert, spokeswoman for the partnership. "They might not be representative of the area. A lot of things have changed downtown and we wanted to make sure we had a good image of what's happening."

Wynn's photo marathon include a 40-hour continual shoot, as well as numerous day and nighttime photographs. Wynn carried a ladder with her into neighborhoods so she could capture unique elevated angles. She climbed a slide at the Akron zoo to get a peak at the city's glowing skyline near sunset.

"I was so excited to shoot these photos that I didn't think of it as difficult," Wynn said. "Sometimes you have to work a little harder because Akron isn't New York City, it's not brushed and polished, but it can be more interesting."

In offering the images free for public use, Wynn hopes to fill nooks and crannies of the Internet with a more benevolent image of the Rubber City.

"We spend so much time on social media, doing a lot of scrolling, and you need something of interest to pull you in," Wynn said "A photo can be the difference between motivating you to go to an event or causing complete disinterest in the event."