January 18th Meeting Stacie J. Flynn, the founder and chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Marketing Color, gave an excellent presentation about marketing techniques and tips in this new age of marketing using the digital world. Browse her website for an idea of the types of mediums her company recommends and specializes in. E-mail her at Stacie@Marketing-Color.com or give her a call: 757-986-0599.
Polly Fyre $500 raffle tickets available on VPPA website. Go to www.VPPS.org (access code is VirginiaPPA). Under the convention tab, go to 2016 Luau info and extras. Scroll to the bottom and click on Polly Frye raffle. Click on the ticket and complete your order. While you are there, you can also purchase your yellow Luau TeeShirts for $20 ea. Or see Jeff Kaiser to purchase them. There will be no February Meeting because of the Convention.
VPPA/SEPPA 2016 Convention tentative Presenters Kim Smith Jon Givens
be creative.be
Divided Sky Aerials Drone Photography
inspired.be you
Jon Johnson
Art & Business of Dance Photography
Mollie Isaacs
Lightroom & Unchained Wildlife
Creating Calendars for Businesses
David Arrington
Business
Hanson Fong
Jamie Hayes
Primer & Good
Parish Kohanim
Canon speaker
Enough is NOT
Meghan Garner
Fine Art Nudes
Good Enough
Don Aittama
Photoshop
TBA
State Convention: Doubletree Inn, Williamsburg, 19-23 Feb. See VPPA site to register and for additional details. Print Competition: Register through PPA website, SEPPA entry. We may enter 4 images in each of two categories—Photographic Open and Artist. On the entry form is the information about our State entry and categories. You do not have to be a PPA member to enter the State competition. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT YOU MUST REGISTER BY THE DEADLINE. YOU CANNOT WALK IN WITH A PRINT CASE OR IMAGES AND BE ENTERED IN THE COMPETITION,
Be sure to read VPPA Salon Chairman Pat Hansen’s 12/14/15 e-mail to VPPA members for Information on 2016 Convention. Here are the highlights of that e-mail. ATTENTION VPPA MEMBERS As you may know, Virginia is hosting the SEPPA judging this year during our convention. This will affect you in several ways: Registration dates are much earlier...no last minute stuff this time. Check the SEPPA website for information. You may only enter four images this time, but in addition to the SEPPA categories on the entrance form, there will be a place for you to select Virginia categories as well. Be sure to do both if you want your images judged for Virginia awards. The fee for entry will be the national fee, not the Virginia fee. If you are entering an actual case, be sure it gets to the designated address on time. I believe that the cases are going to Kaiser’s studio, so you may hand-deliver your case there if you wish; I recommend checking with Jeff first. The judging will be on Friday and Saturday, beginning one day earlier than usual, should you wish to be there.
You may enter two cases if you so desire: one in the Open category and one in the Artist category. You may not mix art prints in with your open case, but you can still enter artistic images in Illustrative (for SEPPA) and either Illustrative or Creative for Virginia, but not with work sheets or original images contained on the image board as you would for entry in Artist category. See attachment (to Pat’s original email) to view accepted way to enter artistic images in the Artist category. I hope this clears up some things for you and that we will see a big turn-out from our membership this year. Since it is a regional judging, there will be entries from other southeastern states and two panels of Affiliated Judges. SEPPA is providing a print committee to handle their judging, but I will still need a few dedicated volunteers to help with Virginia corners and ribbons. Please email me at phskandi@charter.net if you will be willing to help, or if you have questions about the judging. Good luck with your entries. See you in Williamsburg. Pat Hansen, VPPA Salon Chairman Hope to see everyone at our 2016 convention February 19-23!
Chapter Officers GOVERNOR Bob Harper, CPP, AFP bob@bobharperphotography.com (757) 325-8300 LT. GOVERNOR Anne Companion, CPP info@annecompanionphotography.com (757) 630-5860 TREASURER Steven Radcliffe slrimagery@gmail.com SECRETARY Joan Grippo joan11488@aol.com 757-721-6132