NWSFPP Holiday Bash!

December 6-8 2008

Saturday Dec 6th

3pm -8pm Beach Portrait Seminar with D.J. Tomchay & Karen White. Live beach session, Workflow & sales session.  Only $25

Sunday Dec 7th 3pm -until  Family Holiday Party. Special door prizes. Win $100 gas card!. Chili cookoff, Family portraits. Bring the whole family!.

Come stay with us! Rooms available only $99 for 2 nights. Space is limited.

The house is Mikonos Frangists Beach. 8br/8ba home, Private pool, Hot tub, Pool table and media room.

Contact Karen White to sign up 850-685-5409

November 25th:

General Meeting – Topic Open Forum Q&As

Prepare your questions and answers for the meeting. Our president Bob Armor will serve as moderator of this discussion assisted by Tom Carter. Feel free to ask any questions you may have about any aspect of the business.

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December:

NWSFPP Holiday Bash! see top post.

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January: 2009

General Meeting – TBA

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February:

Feb 24th General Meeting with Julie Hughes.

Feb 25th – Full day Seminar with Julie Hughes.

see her web site here

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Aprial 25-28 2009

SEPPA Convention & Trade Show – Athens GA

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May 31 – June 4th 2009:

FPP Florida School – Daytona Beach Fl. Daytona beach Community college.

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August 22-26

FPP Annual Convention – Orlando Fl.

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November 25
December -Christmas Party

Please mark your calendars NOW so you won’t book anything for these dates–we have some great speakers coming and want everyone to be there!

Get Noticed: Designing your way to a bigger bottom line

Let’s face it, photographers are having to wear more and more hats. One of the most important of which is “Designer.” The market is ever increasingly competitive and digitally savvy. Taking beautiful photographs is just the beginning of creating your business image in that marketplace. By mastering the basics elements of graphic design you can take your images, marketing pieces and albums to the next level.

Learn more about words like:

Color, Texture, Balance & Symmetry, Movement, Negative Space and Text… and how they can both enhance and detract from your imagery.

We’ll evaluate various designs and learn to identify successful and unsuccessful design strategies. Brave guild members are welcome to bring or email ahead of time to krystal@k-gallery.com their marketing pieces, print ads and albums to share and critique for hands-on feedback. This can be painful to hear so only the thick-skinned and good humored need apply.

And I’ll share my favorite resources for inspiration, color theory and design products to woo and keep your clients tickled.

Krystal has a degree in photojournalism from the University of Florida and traveled the world, from Ecuador to Kosovo as a photojournalist for the U.S. Army. Matt holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UF, and has been published in the Journal of Systems Architecture, Cluster Computing, and the International Conference on Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices.

The Radlinskis have earned several awards, together and separately, at the local and state and national levels including a Fuji Masterpiece and Kodak Gallery Award in the Storybook Album category, a PPA Platinum level photographer and Top 5 album for 2007, multiple Accolades of Excellence at WPPI, and from 2005-2007, Krystal was named one of Florida’s “Top Ten Photographers.” Krystal is President and Matt is Webmaster of the Professional Photographers of North Central Florida. For recent samples of their work, please visit their blog at www.k-gallery.com/kjournal.

Here is a link to their web site.

http://www.k-gallery.com/

April 29: Bruce Evensen

Bruce will also be doing a workshop on Wednesday the 30th at Zea Rotisserie in Pensacola. The workshop cost is $50

Bruce Evensen’s web site http://www.thomasbruce.com

About Bruce

In 1973 Bruce M. Evensen opened Thomas Bruce Studio, Inc. in St. Petersburg, Florida, specializing in Elegant Portraits and Wedding Photography. Bruce has become the most awarded portrait photographer in Florida.

Bruce’s entries in state, regional and international competitions have won numerous First Place Awards and several Best of Show and Kodak Gallery Awards of Excellence. His images have been selected for the prestigious Professional Photographers of America Loan Collection and displayed at the Epcot International Exposition.

Professional Degrees include Master Photographer (M. Photog.), Certified Florida Photographer (C.F.P.), Florida Service Award (F.S.A.), Florida Degree of Photographic Excellence (F.D.P.E.), and Craftsman Degree (Cr.).

Bruce is a popular speaker throughout Florida, the United States, Europe, Canada and Puerto Rico. He has lectured at the Professional Photographers of America National Convention and juried many photographic competitions throughout the world.

Bruce is also an instructor at Tampa’s International Academy of Design and Technology and is consulted regularly for studio design, set-up and business practices. He has been married to Barbara for over 34 years and they have three daughters, Ame, Amber and Jessie.

MASTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
….is the highest honor granted by the Professional Photographers of America. Bruce Evensen received this honor in July, 1983. To receive this honor one must submit his work before a panel of judges year after year until he has accumulated twenty-five merits proving his ability in photography. The honor carries with it a certain amount of responsibility.

One of these responsibilities is to further prove your ability by teaching your techniques of photography to your fellow peers. Having had your system accepted and twenty-five additional merits received you are awarded the PHOTOGRAPHIC CRAFTSMAN Degree.

Bruce Evensen holds both of these degrees and applies the same principles of Fine Art to your portrait just as he did in acquiring these degrees.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Dinner 5:30pm, Program 7:00pm
Zea Rotisserie & Grill

Aaron Adams

2007-2008 Upcoming Events:
September 25: General Meeting Zea Rotisserie Pensacola, FL
TBD
October 1: FPP Fall Seminar Ocala Hilton Ocala, FL
TBD
October 23: General Meeting Zea Rotisserie Pensacola, FL
TBD
November 28: General Meeting Zea Rotisserie Pensacola, FL
TBD
December 9: NWSFPP Holiday Party Zea Rotisserie Pensacola, FL
Dec 29-Jan 3: PPA Tampa Cruise Tampa, Key West & Cozumel
January 6-8, 2008: PPA Imaging USA Tampa, FL
Tampa Convention Center