Being very clear about your goals, being organized and managing your time effectively is so important.  This is the perfect meeting for you if you:
- Feel overwhelmed by all you must accomplish each day
- Experience burn-out from working too much
- Don’t know how to prioritize each day for maximum productivity
- Waste time looking for things
- Trip over the piles of paper and supplies on your office floor
- Work outside your office because your desk is too cluttered

Learn how to:
* Reduce Stress by creating a more organized office (or home)
* Increase Productivity by focusing on what matters each day
* Balance life through better time management
* Achieve goals through clearing the clutter that holds us back

Join us at 7pm on Tuesday May 3rd, 2011 6:30PM networking / 7PM program
Meeting will be held at The Polish Home in Seattle, 1714 18th Ave., Seattle 98122

Students $10 / Non-Members $20

Watch and learn as Willow shows us how to put our clients at ease, how to light them properly, how to pose them and more!

Says Willow, “I am a self taught photographer and have been learning this craft for the last 6 years. As a child, my parents always encouraged me in whatever I chose to do.  I love  going to photography workshops (where it’s sunny if possible!) and I want to continue to grow and progress as an artist and business owner every day! In 2007 I moved into my first studio space in the Dome District. In 2009 I started a shared studio space for photographers. Since moving into our new space, the collective has been named Image Crew. I love my studio mates like brothers and sisters!  Life is good baby, LIFE IS GOOD!!”

Join us at 7pm on Tuesday April 5th, 2011
Meeting will be held at The Polish Home in Seattle, 1714 18th Ave., Seattle 98122

Folio
1st Place:  Barbara Roser
2nd Place:  Vicki Derks
3rd Place:  Alison Jensen

Open
1st Place (tie):  Marv Heston
1st Place (tie):  Susan Marsidi
1st Place (tie):  Steve Buck
2nd Place:  Andrew Crain
3rd Place (tie): Victoria Lapp
3rd Place (tie): Alison Jensen

Portrait
1st Place:  Vicki Zoller
2nd Place:  Vicki Derks
3rd Place:  Kerri Kirshner

Wedding
1st Place:  Steve Buck
2nd Place:  John Perea
3rd Place (tie):  Marv Heston
3rd Place (tie):  Alison Jensen

View Winning Images Here:
SPPA Monthly Print Competition Winning Images

Congratulation to our March Winners:

Folio – Vicki Derks, Gail Ann, Barbara Roser
Open – Steven Buck, Marv Heston
Portrait – Kerri Kirshner, Russell Lorne, Steven Buck
Wedding – Barbara Roser, Lara Grauer, Nancy Treder

Case Fees for SPPA Members is $60 ($15 per Entry) and $80 for non members.

There are new Rules & new Guidelines! Electronic Images now allowed!
Download your 2010 Rules & Guidelines here!

Your prints/albums/CD’s must have an entry form attached.
Download your Print Entry Forms here!

Got Questions? Email Vicki Derks, Print Competition Chair

“Now more than ever, it is up to us to employ basic marketing techniques to stay afloat and succeed in an over saturated market. We must inform our warm market that we are here and that we can fulfill their need to preserve their family and personal histories. In a sea of photographers we must differentiate our work and marketing techniques from the thousands of “digital Debbies” out there who are our competition because we let them get away with it. The time for waiting for the phone to ring has passed. The time for passive marketing is long gone. Now is the time for all good photographers to take their message to the people; where they live, work and play.” Nancy Treder

Join us at our new location: The Polish Home, 1714 18th Ave, Seattle, Wa. 98122

In eight years of entering PPA’s national print competition, Sam Gardner’s images have been in the Loan or Showcase collections nearly every year and often used by PPA for promotional materials. Perhaps more importantly, Sam’s portraits are displayed and enjoyed by many clients. His enthusiasm and teaching skills are sure to carry you forward in your pursuit of better image making.

Learn how to win at your next print competition!
*Print competitions explained for local/state/regional/nationals
*Power point show with time for questions throughout
*Analysis of prints on the spot! Bring your prints for immediate input!

6:30-7pm Networking and munchies

7pm SPPA announcements and business

7:15 Winning at print competitions! Learn from the expert.

Active Members are encouraged to bring in their prints for the monthly print competition and the chance to earn the title of “Photographer of the Year”

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20090929103500534

Vicki Zoller of Bouncing Light Photography, will discuss with us her bag of tricks from setting the right room temperature to using “photo sacks” with newborns. Vicki will also show her posing techniques and her super quick moves when changing holding positions for Mom and Dad.

At the end of the meeting, Vicki will share with us a slide show of the work of Puget Sound photographers (including members of SPPA) giving back by volunteering for NILMDTS – Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep – a national nonprofit providing families with a remembrance of their newborns who cannot or have not survived birth. Vicki is one of several area coordinators who work with the hospitals to place photographers with families that wish to have a portrait of their child. New born babies are both a joy and challenge to photograph and the more you know the better your success. Bring an associate (first visit is free!) and watch Vicki work with her traveling newborn “baby”.