Annual Picnic Photos

Everyone had a great time, delicious food, Corinne and Stevn Alavekios were amazing, and thanks to Barbara Roser there were wonderful models to work with. And another big thank you to Barbara for hosting this years picnic. Your place is amazing!

The meats for the picnic were prepared by Dave at Carolina Smoke BBQ in Bothell.  Thanks to Dave who really went out of his way to provide the best ribs, brisket, pulled pork, and wings. There wasn’t much left…which shows just how good Dave’s food is. Victoria Lapp provided the sides, including her special recipe Mac & Cheese, which also disappeared quickly.

It was great having Corinne & Stevn talk about their photography, and they both were more then willing to answer many questions. Then, we got to see them in action photographing the models in the many spectacular areas Barbara has created in her yard, which you’ll see in the photo gallery below.

Now, here are some of the photos taken by Andrew Crain and Gail Ann Wodzin.

Creative Design Tour – August 8th

The Creative Design Tour is a hands-on workshop that teaches you how to create personalized photographic art with edges, textures, borders, backgrounds, brushes, overlays, and scripts. You will learn the step-by-step process of creating beautiful, individualized portrait art for your clients with just a few simple techniques.

 

Tickets Only $99

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Use Discount Code: CDTPPA

 

 

 

YOU WILL LEARN

1. The 7 Photoshop Tools needed for Creative Design

2. The 8 Design Elements available to you

3. How to Blend and Combine Elements

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learn how to design artistic client pieces efficiently and easily…Tap into Endless Possibilities for your own creations… Use these techniques for portrait art, photo albums, gallery wraps, marketing cards, or anything else you can dream of.

 

 

 

Annual Summer Picnic – July 10th!

Reminder – the SPPA Annual Summer Picnic is almost here!

Date/TimeTuesday – July 10th, 4:00pm

Guest speakers will be Corinne and Stevn Alavekios of Photographic Essays. Award winning photographer and fine art print maker Corinne Alavekios, is internationally renowned and best known for her passion and determination in this field.  Stevn Alavekios has photographed clients worldwide.  His work is unsurpassed in its freedom and creativity.

Place:  Eastside – address will be provided to those who RSVP

Menu:  Smoked Ham, Smoked Turkey, Beef Brisket, plus non-meat options with sides, sodas, and desserts!

Price:  Free to all SPPA members!   But, an RSVP is required by June 30th to attend for free.   Any RSVP’s that come in after June 30th will need to pay $25.00.
Non-SPPA members:  $25.00    

RSVP to victoria@whitehawkphotography.com  
Payments can be made via PayPal by sending payment to info@seattleppa.com

Come join us for great B-B-Q, drinks, fun, networking, and creativity.  Don’t forget to bring your cameras!

2012 Annual Summer Picnic

SPPA Annual Summer Picnic – July 10th

Date/TimeTuesday – July 10th, 4:00pm

Guest speakers will be Corinne and Stevn Alavekios of Photographic Essays. Award winning photographer and fine art print maker Corinne Alavekios, is internationally renowned and best known for her passion and determination in this field.  Stevn Alavekios has photographed clients worldwide.  His work is unsurpassed in its freedom and creativity.

Place:  Eastside – address will be provided to those who RSVP

Menu:  Smoked Ham, Smoked Turkey, Beef Brisket, plus non-meat options with sides, sodas, and desserts!

Price:  Free to all SPPA members!   But, an RSVP is required by June 30th to attend for free.   Any RSVP’s that come in after June 30th will need to pay $25.00.
Non-SPPA members:  $25.00    

RSVP to victoria@whitehawkphotography.com  

Payments can be made via PayPal by sending payment to info@seattleppa.com

Come join us for great B-B-Q, drinks, fun, networking, and creativity.  Don’t forget to bring your cameras!

Annual Summer Picnic - July 10, 2012

 

Monthly Print Competition Winners – May 2012

Monthly Print Competition Award Winning Images for May 2012

 

Tara Clark to speak at June 5th SPPA meeting

The image above is one of Tara Clark’s published images from her travels to the Sudan. In February of 2010 Tara was getting very antsy with her work. She loved her clients but she felt she needed a new challenge.   She longed to go back to Africa -where she had served in the Peace Corps – years earlier.  Amazingly, the opportunity to travel to the Sudan with a group of doctors presented itself.   She will be sharing images and experiences from her amazing journey and helping us to learn how we can find our own photography projects.    For more information about Tara Clark and her experiences – check out her blog .   Please join us on Tuesday, June 5th at 7:00 pm  to hear about Tara’s amazing experiences and the stories behind her beautiful images.

 

 

 

Pricing-Process-Profit Workshop

SPPA is proud to team up with our friends at SmugMug once again to bring you quality information on how to grow your Photography Business.

Jared Bauman, a talented wedding photographer and excellent speaker who spoke to the Seattle SMUG earlier this year, has put together an evening workshop targeted for 20-22 cities across the country with an attendance target of 100 to 150 people per event.  The workshop is titled “Pricing, Process, and Profits for the Wedding Pro”.

This workshop will be entirely FREE for local photographers, and will be comprised of 3 speakers.  Jared will be one of them, Leeann Marie the second, and they are pulling in a 3rd speaker that’s local (I don’t have the name yet for Seattle). Jared is adamant that the workshop be FREE for all photographers. He wants every photographer to be able to come hear this education, and does not want price to be a barrier.

Here’s a direct link to the Seattle workshop: http://priceprocessprofit.com/#/seattle/

There will be limited seating and you must RSVP to attend.  Here’s a direct link to RSVP for Seattle: http://www.fisheyeconnect.com/workshop/1035/pricing-process-and-profit-workshop-in-seattle-wa.aspx

Pricing-Process-Profit, for Wedding Photographers

Get your copy now!

SPPA is proud to present it’s first SPPA Prestige Annual.  The SPPA Prestige Award is awarded to the photographer whose body of work in annual competition exhibits the highest excellence in capturing, creating, and printing exquisite images based on PPA standards as determined by a jury of PPA qualified Judges.

This magazine honors our 2012 Prestige Award winner, Marv Heston. Marv is a three time winner! The publication also features the entire crop of this year’s entries. If you are a member you can pick up your complimentary copy at the next meeting if you haven’t already.  You can download a digital copy or purchase additionals by clicking here.

Sandy Puc’ Presents The 2012 Digital Photography Workflow Tour with Jack Davis

$99 / $79 with special code! PAF12

May 3, 2012
Registration 9:00AM to 10:00AM
Seminar 10AM to 5:00PM
Redmond Marriott Town Center, 7401 164th Avenue NE, Redmond, WA 98052
Sandy Puc’ Presents The 2012 Digital Photography Workflow Tour with Jack Davis, to visit Seattle—May 3, 2012—World-renowned photographer and marketing expert Sandy Puc’ will be in Seattle along with Award-winning author and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Jack Davis on Thursday, May 3rd to demonstrate incredible new concepts and capabilities that will dramatically improve the workflow of everyone that uses a camera—from creative capture, to instant image enhancing, to printing and delivery—and everything in between. The tour will visit 26 cities throughout the U.S. in May and June.

Attendees can look forward to a wealth of insights into the latest digital photography workflow processes—including: capture, image management, instant optimizing, streamlined retouching, creative one-of-a-kind enhancing, automated batch-processing, template-based output, sales procedures, pricing, archiving and final delivery. Attendees will leave both inspired with new ways to expand their creative potential and empowered with new insights and techniques that will make their photographic workflow dramatically more productive, creative, and yes… even fun.

A live portrait session and enhancing/retouching demonstration will bring new cutting edge techniques to life for audience members in an energetic seminar environment that will not only demonstrate the step-by-step “How,” but also the why-we-do-this “Wow.”

“I’m very excited about this tour,” Puc’ comments, “I look forward to sharing my knowledge of capture, software, pricing and the sales process. Coupled with Jack Davis’ expertise in the practical streamlining of the very latest Lightroom and Photoshop, this seminar is sure to be an invaluable productivity and creativity boost to any photographer!”

Davis is coauthor of the award-winning and best-selling guides to Photoshop: The Photoshop Wow! and How to Wow books. With over a million and a half copies sold in 12 languages, Davis is a world-renowned authority in the world of digital imagery. Davis is also famous for his passionate and inspirational teaching style—especially when it comes to a workflow focused on quality, flexibility and speed.

“I am privileged to be partnering with Jack on this tour,” Puc’ adds, “His level of experience and expertise in the world of Photoshop and Lightroom—especially in getting incredible work out the door quickly and easily—is unprecedented in the industry. I’m sure attendees will be talking about, and using, his life-saving tips and techniques for years to come.”

For more information on the 2012 Digital Photography Workflow Tour with Jack Davis, session dates and ticket information, visit: http://sandypucpresents.sandypuctours.com/index.html

About Sandy Puc’
With 20+ years in the photography industry, Sandy Puc’ has a depth, passion and knowledge that she shares with tour audiences year after year. Even with her busy speaking schedule, Puc’ holds nearly 2,000 individual and family sessions every year at her Colorado-based studio.

A longstanding personal and business practice of giving back is one of Puc’s trademarks. This commitment to community inspired her to co-found the Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Foundation in 2005. This nonprofit organization is dedicated to providing in-hospital portraits to families suffering the loss of a newborn. Puc’ has served on the Board of Directors for the Professional Photographers of America, and holds the prestigious titles of Print Master and Explorer of Light from Canon USA. When she isn’t busy with a speaking engagement, a portrait session or overseeing her studio, Puc’ is spending time with her family and her dog Cannon.
For more information about Sandy Puc’, visit http://www.sandypuc.com/

About Jack Davis
Jack Davis is well known as coauthor of the award-winning (Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Computer Book, Computer Press Assoc.: Best How-To Book, International Digital Imaging Assoc.: Most Useful Book) and best-selling guides to Photoshop, The Photoshop Wow! Book, and How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography – as well as being an award-winning designer, photographer, and contributing editor to numerous other books and magazines on digital tools and the creative process. For over 25 years, Jack has also been a passionate spokesperson on digital imagery, and has given countless keynote address’, seminars and hands-on workshops around the world. In 2003 Jack was one of the first to be inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame for his life time contributions in the field of education and digital imagery.

Jack has undergraduate degrees in Graphic Design and an MA and MFA in Digital Imagery, and when he’s not in his studio in San Diego, he’s usually on a coast somewhere, camera in hand, conjuring up new ways to capture the local color.
For more information about Jack Davis, visit http://www.wowcreativearts.com

Sandy Puc 2012 Digital Workflow Tour with Jack Davis

Taking your portraits to the next level

Come spend an evening with this year’s PPW photographer of the year, Ernst Ulrich Schafer, and hear how he did it.

Tuesday May 1, 2012
7PM at the Polish Home, 18th and Madison

Ernst is the master of the “Fine Art Portrait” and will share his award winning work,  talk about his studio,  and discuss his current marketing and pricing ideas. He is coming prepared to answer all your questions about how he has turned his passion for fine art photography into a successful business.

Ernst started out by taking basic classes at Clark College in Vancouver, WA. He soon met a photographer, Master BW Photograpehr Shedrich Williames from Portland, OR who inspired him to become a Fine Art BW Photographer. “I love to study the History of Photography and all of it’s Masters” says Ernst. For 25 years he did nothing but work on his own BW Personal Projects. He later had the chance to study with Monte Zucker at a PMA Convention and was hooked. He then took another class with him and then another… says Ernst, “Monte got me excited about moving into the Portrait area. I’ve had my own Portrait Studio for 11 years now in the downtown area of Port Angeles.”