Please join us 6:00pm on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at the Mandarin House Restaraunt on Merchants Drive. Our speaker will be:

Llew Wenzel

Youth Sports Market

• Find out how to find prospects.
• How to contact the league and sell them on your services.
• Find out how you can turn action pictures into a very lucrative event.
• How to run a successful picture day.
• Learn to manage your workflow after the shoot.

Come and learn what to shoot, how much to shoot, and how to sell.

We will be holding our monthly 8×10 print competition this month.

Here is a reminder of the rules:

• You must be an active member in good standing to enter. 
• You must own the copyright and/or right to submit the print for competition.
• Prints must be 8×10 or 8×12 in size with no marks to identify the photographer.
• Price is $3 per print.
• There is no limit to the number of prints you may submit.
• Provide sRGB JPG files on CD of the images you submit (up to 600 pixels on the long side) to post on the website, blog, and/or community forum.
• Prints must be submitted by 6:30pm.
• Submitting prints licenses SMPP/PPETN to post images on the organization website (website, blog, forum).
• Proceeds will go towards the Michael Laughlin scholarship fund.

Judging:

• Active members in good standing and honorary memers may vote.
• Voting shall take place between 6:30pm and 6:45pm.
• Each member chooses their choise for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.
• 1st place = 3 points.  2nd place = 2 points. 3rd place = 1 point.
• Winners will be based on the total accumulated points for each print.
• 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners will be announced before presenting that night’s speaker.

The SMPP/PPETN “Photographer of the Year” will be awarded to the person who has accumulated the highest number of points throughout the calendar year. This award is based on each member’s efforts as they present their work to their piers, and the votes of their piers. This allows us to challenge each other to continue to improve our work throughout the year.

Winners will be announced here in the blog, as well as on our Community Forum. Several members have asked if we can discuss prints that either won, or didn’t so they can understand what people liked/disliked about prints submitted. Since we have such a short amount of time during monthly meetings, and don’t want to take away from the speaker’s time, we will post winning images (and non-winning images upon request) in the Community Forum where we can dicuss the images in greater detail!

We now have our new community forum online!

Here we will have news, information, up-coming events, and membership information. This is a fourm for professional photographers to share with each other, and discuss photography. Active SMPP/PPETN members can post images to be critiqued by other members as well.

We will list regional, state, and national information pertaining to photographers. We may also have our monthly speakers stop by to answer questions about their seminars. This will be a spot where photographers from across the region can meet online to discuss the art they love.

The forum is new, so stop on by, register, and help us build a resource that hopefully will grow to be the site that regional photographers go to for information. Please excuse the boxes as we unpack in our new location and build upon our new name!

http://community.smpp-tn.com/