Please join us on Thursday, June 17, 2010 for our regular monthly meeting!

This month, our speakers are Kirk and Lora Baxley of Fitz-Symms Photography in Augusta, GA. 

Lora specializes in newborn and children’s photography.  She was the 2009 Photographer ot the Year for GPPA, and also the 2010 Photographer of the Year and it as a multiple award winner.

Lora will share with you her passion for creating unique pieces of art for her clients.  She’ll walk you through set design and techniques to make your sessions profitable.

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Kirk is a Past President of GPPA.  He currently serves on the PPA Council.  Kirk has over thirty years of experience in photography.

Kirk will share with you his success in school photography.  He will show you school day workflow using photo merge and picture packages from CCI.

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Monthly 8×10 Competition:

We will be holding our monthly 8×10 competition this month. PPETN members may bring as many 8×10 prints to the competition each month. The cost is $3 per print. Please remember to bring a CD of your submitted images (600 pixels on the largest side). Points towards our annual “Photographer of the Year” will be awarded once we receive digital versions for submitting on our blog.

Seminar Cost (excluding food):

- PPETN Members: Free
- Non-Members: $20.00 (first visit is free)

Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Mandarin House Restaraunt
314 Merchants Drive
Knoxville, TN 37912

6:00pm – Meet & Greet
7:00pm – Seminar

Please join us on Thursday, May 13, 2010 for our regular monthly meeting. This month, our speaker will be Farrah Braniff, CPP.  Her program will be on:

Farrah Braniff is a Houston based photographer, specializing in contemporary portraits of babies, children and families.  She operates a high-end, low volume retail studio and has been recognized for her unique style of marketing and design.  She has won numerous awards for her marketing work including The Professional Photographers of America (PPA) AN-NE award for the last three consecutive years.  Farrah’s photographs have been accepted into the loan collection of the Professional Photographers of America and has been highlighted in the Professional Photographers of America Magazine.  Before opening her studio, Farrah taught specialized photography classes at multiple educational institutions including her alma mater, the Grammy Award winning High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.  She loves old cameras, cowboy boots, tattoos and her houseful of rowdy boys.

Monthly 8×10 Competition:

We will be holding our monthly 8×10 competition this month. PPETN members may bring as many 8×10 prints to the competition each month. The cost is $3 per print. Please remember to bring a CD of your submitted images (600 pixels on the largest side). Points towards our annual “Photographer of the Year” will be awarded once we receive digital versions for submitting on our blog.

Seminar Cost (excluding food):

- PPETN Members: Free
- Non-Members: $20.00

Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Mandarin House Restaraunt
314 Merchants Drive
Knoxville, TN 37912

6:00pm – Meet & Greet
7:00pm – Seminar

Please join us February 11, 2010 for our annual 16×20 Salon competition. This is a wonderful opportunity to get judges opinions before entering prints into the regional and national competitions!

PPETN members in good standing may enter the print competition. We welcome photographers to come and watch the judging.

• You must be a PPETN member to enter the competition.
• Rules for entries are based on the PPA Regional Competition Rules.
• Up to a total of four prints or albums may be entered for a fee of $50.
• A total of six prints (or albums) may be entered for a fee of $75.
• Checks should be made out to PPETN.
• Include a CD of your submitted images for displaying winners on the PPETN website. Cases will not be acceptwd without check & CD
• Print Categories are “Portrait”, “Illustrative”, and “Wedding”
• Album Categories are “Event” and “Non-Event”
• Each submission should include an Entry Form.

Judges will be critiquing entries based on PPA’s Twelve Elements of a Merit Print. Judges will score prints as if they are entered into national print competition. Based on the number of prints entered, and allotted time, the judges may critique prints and give suggestive critisism to help entrants improve their prints for national competition.

Salon entries should be submitted by 6:45pm. we will not be holding our monthly 8×10 competition this month.

With SEPPA being hosted by TPPA this year, it is anexcellent opportunity to get critiques and improve your competition entries.

February 11, 2010
Mandarin House Restaraunt
314 Merchants Drive
Knoxville, TN 37912

6:00pm – Meet, Greet, & Eat
7:00pm – Salon Competition Begins

PPETN is helping to celebrate the Boy Scouts of America 100th Anniversary

     We are helping to celebrate the Boy Scouts of America’s 100th anniversary by volunteering to take photographs of the scouts in uniform. For a $25 donation to the scouts, each scout will get a 5 minute portrait session and an 8×10 print commemorating the anniversary. Some of the scouts will be volunteering to assist our photographers (taking names, collecting information…).

     Any of our members who would like to volunteer to take photographs, we would be honored to have you help participate. Photographs will be taken on January 23 and Janury 30 from 9:00am until 5:00pm. Volunteers would be needed for 2-1/2 hour time blocks.  Ambler will have space available at the Boy Scout Center at 1333 Old Weisgarber Rd in Knoxville. If you are outside the local Knoxville area and would like to participate, times can be arranged at your own studio. This region covers most of East Tennessee, so there would be opportunities needed outside of Knoxville area as well!

   If you would be interested in volunteering, please contact Ambler Brown @ 865.368.1291 for more information and to sign up.

Mark your calendars! Here is a list of our events for the 2010 calendar year:

January 10-12: PPA ImagingUSA in Nashville, TN

February 11: PPETN Annual Salon Competition, Knoxville, TN

March 11: PPETN Monthly Meeting, Knoxville, TN

April 10-12: SEPPA / TPPA Spring Seminar, Franklin, TN
April 15: PPETN Photo Safari

May 13: PPETN Monthly Meeting, Knoxville, TN

June 17: PPETN Monthly Meeting, Knoxville, TN

July 15: PPETN Monthly Meeting, Knoxville TN

August 5: PPETN Picnic, TBA
August 14-18: TPPA Convention, Franklin, TN

September 16: PPETN Monthly Meeting, Knoxville, TN

October 14: PPETN Monthly Meeting, Knoxville, TN

November 11: PPETN Monthly Meeting, Knoxville, TN

December 9: PPETN Annual Christmas Party, Court Yard Grille, Alcoa, TN

Check back for more information about each event as dates draw closer.