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

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

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

     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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.
• Entry fee is $50 per case (checks should be made out to SMPP).
• 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.

February 12, 2009
Mandarin House Restaraunt
314 Merchants Drive
Knoxville, TN 37912

 
5:30 pm – Short PPETN Board Meeting
6:00pm – Meet, Greet, & Eat
7:00pm – Salon Competition Begins

Come join us tomorrow night for our monthly PPETN meeting!

With ImagingUSA going on this week, we are having a local vendor meet-and-greet this month. Several local vendors will be coming to talk with us tomorrow evening. This is a chance to see what services are available to local photographers.

Thursday, January 15, 2009
Mandarin House Restaraunt
Merchants Rd, Knoxville

Board Meeting @ 5:15pm
Meet & Greet @ 6:00pm
Vendor Presentations @ 7:00pm

Monthly 8×10 Competition

We will be holding our monthly 8×10 competition this week. January starts a new year with new tallies towards our Photographer of the Year!

You may submit as many prints as you like. The fee is $3 per print. First, second, and third place entries go towards our Photographer of the Year tallies. Please remember to bring a cd of your submitted images (600 pixels on the largest side) for posting on our website. Providing digital version of your submissions is required for your points to count towards the photographer of the year award.

Membership Renewall

It’s that time of year again! We will have applications available at tomorrow’s meeting. You can also download a copy of the application here. Membership dues are $75 for active members and $40 for associate members.

If paying by check, please make checks out to Smoky Mountain Professional Photographers as we are still in the process of changing over all accounts to the new name.

Voting / Results

We have had a good number of ballots returned for the 2009 board member nominations. As of now, we have 15 votes approving the nominations. We need 15 out of 22 votes for the board to be approved. Even though we have enough “Yes” votes, we still need a total of seven more votes for the nominations to be completly valid. So if you haven’t filled out your ballot yet, please download the ballot and e-mail or fax it to Chris Hoopes (865.945.2652) ASAP.

OCTOBER MEETING IS THURSDAY 16th. I do not have the speaker name as of yet from Tenn. PPA. All I know is….He is from London, England and I feel that it will be fascinating to see the comparison of photography from our country to his. More to come. We will be having our print competition and I think that the race is pretty close for the winner. So bring your entries. Please remember the following:

• Fee: $3 per submitted image.
• Prints must be 8×10 in size.
• Please bring a CD of your images for posting on our blog.
• Winning entries will go towards our annual “Photographer of the Year” award.

All proceeds go towards the Michael Laughlin Scholarship. All eligible PPETN members have the opportunity to be awarded a $500 scholarship to a sanctioned photography class.

PPETN Regional PPA Meeting
Mandarin House Restaraunt
314 Merchants Drive
Knoxville, TN 37912
6:00PM – 9:00PM

The Michael Laughlin Scholarship form is due at the October meeting. So you have exactly 18 days to get it done. This is free money guys and gals! It will take you about 15 minutes to fill out the form.

November 13th is our November chapter meeting and swap meet. Pay $5 at the door and bring your stuff/ junk equipment to sell. We will also be having a print critique. This is the place and time to learn from the masters. Bring 8×10′s and have the guys with the degrees give you some pointers and ideas on how to make your images win awards!!

December 4th
Holiday party $20 per person at the door.
Courtyard Grille
3749 Airport Hwy
Alcoa, TN 37001

PPA Numbers
Please bring your PPA number to the next meeting or email to me @ Lynns@seatonshoots.com
I need these updated to register with PPA. THANKS!!