Date:           August 5, 2010
Location:   The Cove on Northshore Drive
Time:           4:00 Gather – 6:00 Dinner
Menu:         Buddy’s Bar-B-Q -(pork sandwich/sides)

Price:          $10  per person
Make check to:   PPETN
Deadline:   August 2 to make payment

Please call Lynn Austin if you plan on attending. You may pay Ambler at the meeting or mail payment to Lynn Austin.  We will need a definite head count and payment before I order the food on August 2. We will only order food for the amount of people who have prepaid.  If you want to pay by credit card, contact Jerry Godolphin. Then call Lynn.

Lynn Austin
10613 Riverlake Drive
Knoxville, TN  37922

865-675-5464
email:  lynnaustin@charter.net
c: 865-292-3236

The Best Part!!!!    Bring your camera!

The light is beautiful that time of day at The Cove.

Get inspired to shoot something for yourself for a change.  You can shoot as soon as you arrive and then again after dinner.

Directions: from downtown – take I-40 West. Exit Campbell Station Rd.  Turn Left onto Campbell Station Rd at light.  Stay on Campbell Station  (you will cross over Kingston Pike) till it merges with Concord Rd. at stoplight.  Then follow Concord Rd to Northshore Drive.  Yield to Right at Circle (headed West on Northshore) Follow to The Cove, on Left.

See you there!

If you haven’t heard, Wal-Mart, Wallgreens, and other locations are now building apps to allow Facebook users the ability to print photos from Facebook pages.

This may well violate photographers’ copyright and usage licenses. There doesn’t seem to be an full opt-out option, but there are ways to block these different photo companies from having access to your images.

Plus, most photographers post low-resolution images to Facebook, which would mean people printing from these apps might have extremely low quality prints.

The Digital Wedding Forum has a great write-up in their blog, along with links to the known photo printing applications on Facebook. It only takes a few minutes to go to each link and block them from printing. So, jump on over to their article and click through the links.

Just a reminder that there will be no montly meeting this month. Instead, we have the photo safari taking place on the regular meeting date (April 15th) in the Old City.

PPETN is hosting a Photo Safari on April 15th in the Old City.

If you would like to participate, we will be meeting up in front of the Crown & Goose at 5:30PM. Gary Woods will have models available. The models will be working for digital files, so you will need to provide a disc of images along with usage licensing.

Some of us will be gathering at thw Crown & Goose for dinner afterwards.

With the TNPPA spring seminar taking place in April, the photo safari will be instead of the standard monthly meeting.

Please join us on Thursday, March 11, for our monthly PPETN meeting. Our speaker this month is Mac Brown.

TOPIC: Little Postage Stamp of Earth: Creative Solutions for Your Business Situation

“Too often we look at other situations and decide that either we can’t do that or if we only had X or Y we would do much better. However, rather than taking the “Grass is Greener” approach, we learn to see ways of expanding our business and our creative energy using what we have at hand.  This program touches on business practices, marketing, and photography.”

Mac Brown calls himself an accidental photographer.  He began his interest in photography in high school when a friend told him that taking pictures was a good way to get out of class.  In college, he worked as a yearbook photographer, and worked for the local newspapers.  After graduating from college, Mac worked part time as a wedding and portrait photographer.   During the years in education, he returned to school, earned his doctorate in American literature, and planned to become a college professor.  By the time his daughter, Rebecca, entered high school she was also hooked on photography and so Mac retired from education and went into photography full time.

Since 2001, Mac has won numerous awards including three Best of Shows at the state competition as well as three first place awards.  In 2006 he won first place in the Senior Girl category at Senior Photographers International and second place for Senior Boy in 2007.  He has placed in the Top Ten photographers in Tennessee for three out of the past four years, and won the 2008 Buddy Stewart Award at SEPPA for the highest for a first time entrant.  He has entered national competition for the past two years and has earned one Loan Print, one general book print, and last year hung four prints at Nationals.  In January 2010, Mac placed second in the Senior girl portfolio competition at SYNC in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Mac Brown Photographers is a full service studio, which specializes in children and senior portrait photography. They do about 500 seniors per year and several hundred children’s sessions per year.  Their school division, IMPACT School & Sports Photography, currently services 15 schools and several sports leagues.

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

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