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.

Please join us on Thursday, October 15th, for our PPETN monthly meeting. This month, Betsy Finn will be speaker on “Improving Your Web Presence”. Here is more information about her presentation:

Seminar Cost (excluding food):
- PPETN Members: Free
- Non-Members: $20.00

Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Mandarin House Restaraunt
314 Merchants Drive
Knoxville, TN 37912

5:45pm – Past Presidents Meeting
6:00pm – Meet & Greet
7:00pm – Seminar

Past presidents are requested to show up at 5:45pm to select nominations for next years board. We will be voting on the board selection at the November meeting.

Coming Thursday, March 19, 7PM presentation, Drawing for Olympus camera, Goins
6PM reception, Bagwell Center
 

Pellissippi State brings in top photographers for ‘Meet the Pros’

Olympus and Pellissippi State Technical Community College’s Bagwell Center for Media and Art are sponsoring “Meet the Pros,” a March 19 event that brings award-winning national photographers to the college. Judy Herrmann and Nick Kelsh share the inspirations behind their cutting-edge digital photography, the lessons they’ve learned along the way and the tools of their trade.

The presentation is at 7 p.m. in the Goins Building Auditorium at the Pellissippi Campus on Hardin Valley Road. A pre-event reception is set for 6-6:45 p.m. in the Bagwell Center Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.  In addition to attending the presentation, audience members will have a chance to win an Olympus E-250 Digital SLR camera.

Herrmann, of Herrmann + Starke, has specialized since 1989 in still-life and lifestyle photography. Her work has been featured in many magazines. A former president of the American Society of Media Photographers, she also consults with photographers about career development and planning.
Nick Kelsh’s work has appeared in such major publications as Time, Life, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Forbes, Fortune and Business Week. He is also the author of nine books, including two that celebrate children: “Naked Babies” and the sequel, “Siblings,” on which he collaborated with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen. In 1986, Kelsh launched the communications firm Kelsh/Wilson Design.

This is the second year the Bagwell Center has partnered with Olympus to bring acclaimed photographers to Pellissippi State for “Meet the Pros.” The two also joined forces in offering a 2007 workshop for professional photographers to hone their craft.

The Bagwell Center houses Pellissippi State’s Media Technologies program. The associate’s degree program provides students the opportunity to work with state-of-the-art equipment and expert faculty in photography, Web design, video production and graphic design.
For more information, contact Ron Goodrich, Pellissippi State’s program coordinator for Photography, at rpgoodrich@pstcc.edu or  (865) 539-7171 .