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.

Please join us on Thursday, June 17, 2010 for our regular monthly meeting!

This month, our speakers are Kirk and Lora Baxley of Fitz-Symms Photography in Augusta, GA. 

Lora specializes in newborn and children’s photography.  She was the 2009 Photographer ot the Year for GPPA, and also the 2010 Photographer of the Year and it as a multiple award winner.

Lora will share with you her passion for creating unique pieces of art for her clients.  She’ll walk you through set design and techniques to make your sessions profitable.

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Kirk is a Past President of GPPA.  He currently serves on the PPA Council.  Kirk has over thirty years of experience in photography.

Kirk will share with you his success in school photography.  He will show you school day workflow using photo merge and picture packages from CCI.

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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 (first visit is free)

Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Mandarin House Restaraunt
314 Merchants Drive
Knoxville, TN 37912

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

Please join us on Thursday, May 13, 2010 for our regular monthly meeting. This month, our speaker will be Farrah Braniff, CPP.  Her program will be on:

Farrah Braniff is a Houston based photographer, specializing in contemporary portraits of babies, children and families.  She operates a high-end, low volume retail studio and has been recognized for her unique style of marketing and design.  She has won numerous awards for her marketing work including The Professional Photographers of America (PPA) AN-NE award for the last three consecutive years.  Farrah’s photographs have been accepted into the loan collection of the Professional Photographers of America and has been highlighted in the Professional Photographers of America Magazine.  Before opening her studio, Farrah taught specialized photography classes at multiple educational institutions including her alma mater, the Grammy Award winning High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.  She loves old cameras, cowboy boots, tattoos and her houseful of rowdy boys.

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, May 13th, 2010
Mandarin House Restaraunt
314 Merchants Drive
Knoxville, TN 37912

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

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.