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  • Casual Conversation with Steve Sedman on PPAM Image Competition Rules

    • 07 Nov 2022
    • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • LOCATION: Virtual Zoom
    • 86
    • 13 registrants
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    Casual Conversation with Steve Sedman on PPAM Image Competition Rules

    DATE: Monday, November 7th, 7pm-8:30pm

    Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours before


    Stephen Sedman will chat with me (and you) about the PPAM Image Competition Awards and rules. There are so many great new awards and even more changes ahead. New to this? We got you covered. We will go over all the different categories and details involved with entering your images. Take the plunge. You’ll learn so much!


    LOCATION: Virtual Zoom
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  • Casual Conversation with Pete Rezac What Makes a Merited Image

    • 14 Nov 2022
    • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • LOCATION: Virtual Zoom
    • 83
    • 14 registrants
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    Casual Conversation with Pete Rezac What Makes a Merited Image

    DATE: Monday, November 14th, 7pm-8:30pm

    Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours before


    Pete Rezac, a fantastic friend of PPAM and a PPA Board member will share his insight on what makes a Merit image. What is it that makes an image have impact. How to select your images to send to be evaluated or to a competition. Pete is really easy to listen to and has fantastic insight that you will get so much inspiration from.


    LOCATION: Virtual Zoom
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  • Casual Conversation with Nancy Green on Image Comp. Presentation

    • 21 Nov 2022
    • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • LOCATION: Virtual Zoom
    • 83
    • 14 registrants
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    Casual Conversation with Nancy Green on Image Comp. Presentation

    DATE: Monday, November 21st, 7pm-8:30pm

    Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours before


    Then, last but not least, we will go over how to create a presentation. I have it down to a pretty simple process so be sure to tune in and check it out. I’ll chat a little about how to choose a color for your background and how big of a boarder to make. Then, at the end of the hour I will go over any unanswered questions you may have from any of the presentations.

    LOCATION: Virtual Zoom
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  • PPAM Holiday Social 2022

    • 11 Dec 2022
    • 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • 7 registrants
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    PPAM Holiday Social

    Sunday, December 11th, 2022

    Location: Lucozzi Portraits
    71 Faulkner Street, Suite 215
    North Billerica, MA 01862

    Time: 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm


    ‘Tis the Season’ of giving and celebrating together!
    Join in the festivities, food and fun in a casual environment at PPAM’s Holiday Social!

    It’ll be a potluck event so please sign up to bring your favorite food.
    Volunteers are also needed to help with decorating, set-up and clean-up.

    Please Sign Up Here to bring something yummy to share

    and help set up/clean up

    (Spouses, significant others and friends are welcome)

    Lastly, in the spirit of the season...

    Please bring a new, unwrapped gift to
    benefit the Toys for Tots program.

    Please be sure to register in advance, so we know how many to expect.
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  • The Creative Motherhood Journey with Tara Ruby

    • 09 Jan 2023
    • 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
    • Hampton Inn & Conference Center 319 Speen Street, Natick MA
    • 6 registrants
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    The Creative Motherhood Journey

    with Tara Ruby, Cr.Photog

    Monday, January 9, 2023

    Registration starts at 9 AM

    Time: 10:00 am - 4:30 pm

    Hampton Inn & Conference Center
     319 Speen Street, Natick MA

    Motherhood images can be rewarding but challenging. From the moment a woman learns she is pregnant, up until she sends her baby away to college, any image can be considered a motherhood moment. My program focuses on the beginning of this journey, to include maternity, birth, fresh 48, newborn and breastfeeding portraits. We will discuss how to capture beautiful maternity portraits using custom gowns from Sew Trendy Accessories and how to include the entire family into the portrait session. We will cover the intimate moments of a birth story, capturing that very first breath of new life and those most precious first moments as a family or maybe the fresh 48 images that are captured in the first 48 hours of life. I will walk you through what images are expected, the best place to get situated in the hospital room and what images are preferred from this monumental event. Finally we will discuss newborn portraits, basic images and then into the more complicated composites. Breastfeeding images can be taken at a newborn session, and I can teach you on how to work them into your sessions. After we discuss the portrait sessions themselves, I’ll give a brief overview of what and how to sell products from these moments and sessions. We will talk about folio boxes, memory albums and prints. We will also discuss vendors and vendor relationships, props and gear. You will walk away from your time with me ready to tackle everything that is included in the motherhood journey.




    Biography

    Tara is deeply embedded into military life, being a disabled veteran and a military spouse as well as a mother to an Army Officer. She has a sincere love of working to support our US Military and the families nestled within. She has worked to pioneer her own personal style of motherhood and military photography that has earned awards from organizations such as the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (WPPI), the Professional Photographers of America (PPA), The National Association of Professional Child Photographers (NAPCP) as well as within the Army community. Among hundreds of international publications, her photography has been shared on Facebook over 3.5 million times and featured in Vanity Fair, USA Today, Parents, SELF Magazine, The Huffington Post, Time Magazine and many more. Cosmopolitan magazine has called her work “stunning”, “powerful” and notes that her work caused “the internet to lose its collective mind” and the Gulf Coast Breastfeeding Center said, “Tara Ruby is to Breastfeeding as Ansel Adams was to landscape”. She was also a finalist in Ron Howard’s Project Imaginat10ncontest, has images in the full-feature documentary, Homecoming The Film and has her image displayed in the US Army Women’s museum in Fort Lee, VA. Tara is a graduate of the New York Institute of Photography, holds an Associate's title with WPPI. She also has earned a Craftsman degree from PPA and is 6 merits from her Masters with PPA as well. When she is not behind the camera you will find her working at her small homestead, Ruby Roost & Ranch, where she raises poultry, goats and pigs with her family.

    Registration starts at 9 AM

    Location: Hampton Inn & Conference Center
    319 Speen Street, Natick MA

    Monday, January 9 , 2023

    Time: 10:00 am - 4:30 pm
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  • EVOLVE 2023 - Photo Convention

    • 24 Feb 2023
    • 11:00 AM
    • 26 Feb 2023
    • 5:00 PM
    • Holiday Inn Boston-Dedham Hotel & Conference Center
    • 9 registrants
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    EVOLVE 2023
    PPAM's Annual Photography Convention

    Friday, February 24th - Sunday, February 26th, 2023

    Join us for education and fun as we Evolve

    at the Holiday Inn Boston-Dedham Hotel & Conference Center

    55 Ariadne Road, Dedham, MA 02026

    A block of rooms are reserved at the Holiday Inn. You can book online Holiday Inn or Call 781-329-1000 and request the block code "PPA" to get the confirmed group rate for your stay dates.

    $110 (per night/ plus tax) room rate.

    Note: Guests should enter their arrival & departure dates, then select the "check availability" button. Then select the room type. Once this is done, your group rate should display. 

    There's lots to do at the Evolve Convention and we could use some help.
    Plus you'll earn PPAM service merits. Want to help?

    Note: Full Convention Details with Session Descriptions coming Soon.

    Convention Weekend Schedule

    Friday February 24th

    11:00am - 7:30pm Registration Desk

    12:00pm - 3:00pm Chris Wooley

    “Master Your Digital Marketing”

    3:15pm - 6:00pm Nadra Edgerly

    "The Big Picture: A Complete Wedding Photography Story"

    6:00pm - 7:30pm Dinner

    7:30pm - 9:30pm Member Welcome Party/Yard Sale Sponsored by PrintMakers

    9:30pm After Hours Lounge - Come Hang out!


    Saturday February 25th

    8:30am - 5:00pm Registration Desk Open

    9:00am -12:00pm Christie Newel 

    “Boudoir: Bold & Beautiful”

    12:15pm - 12:45pm Annual Meeting

    12:45pm - 2:00 Lunch Break

    2:15pm - 6:00pm Toni Harriman

    “Dream Emote Play Create: Emotion and Creativity including Photoshop technique”

    6:00pm - 7:30pm Dinner Break

    7:30pm -10:30 Under the Tuscan Sun PPAM Party - Sponsored by ACI

    10:30pm  After Hours Lounge - Come Hang out!


    Sunday February 26th

    8:30am - 4:00pm Registration Desk

    9:00am - 11:00am Betty Wiley

    "The Art of Landscape Photography: From Inception and Execution and Through Final Output to Produce Fine Art Prints”

    11:00am - 11:15am  Break

    11:15am - 12:30pm Steve Sedman

    "Evolve Your Business"

    12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch Break (food truck)

    1:30pm - 5:30pm Allison Watkins

    “Strengthening Your Family Portrait Skills”

    6:30pm - 6:45pm PPAM Group Photo in Lobby - BE THERE!!!!!

    7:00pm Awards Party

    9:30pm After Hours Lounge - Come Hang out!


    *Please note schedule subject to change*

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  • Paws & Tots (Marketing, sales, portraits, posing, lighting) with Jen Hargrove, M. Photog. Cr., CPP

    • 24 Apr 2023
    • 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
    • Hampton Inn, 2 Foxborough Blvd, FOXBOROUGH, MA
    • 3 registrants
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    Paws & Tots

    (Marketing, sales, portraits, posing, lighting)

    Jen Hargrove, M. Photog. Cr., CPP

    Monday, April 24th, 2023
    Registration starts at 9 AM

    Time: 10:00 am - 4:30 pm


    Hampton Inn, 2 Foxborough Blvd, FOXBOROUGH, MA

    Pets and children are by far the most beloved members of most families, but capturing their personalities is often more difficult than just a click of the shutter.  Instructor Jen Hargrove’s photographs are often defined by her simple classic compositions and authentic moments of pets and children.  Now you can join Jen as she shows you the basics of how she gets animals and children comfortable with the camera.  After this class, you’ll be able to capture great images of pets and children AND how to sell simple classic images like fine art.  She will cover sales and marketing as well as her Pop Up and On Location Studios. You will also learn how Jen has found success with image competition using client work and has used that success to build a highly profitable business.

     


    Jen Hargrove, M. Photog. Cr., CPP

    Big Piney, Wyoming

    Jen has been a member of the Professional Photographers of America since January 2015. She entered the industry in September of 2012 and opened her studio, Jen Hargrove Photography in 2015. Jen specializes in pet, child and character fine art portraits as well as fine art photography. She obtained her CPP in July 2016 becoming one of nine CPP’s in the state of Wyoming and earned the Master of Photography degree and Craftsman degree in January 2019.  She is also a member of multiple PPA affiliates including, the ASP (American Society of Photographers, IPPA (Intermountain), PPN  (Kentucky), and  TPPA (Texas). She also serves on the Board of Directors of the IPPA (Degree and Awards Chair and Scholarship Chair and Education Committee). Jen strongly believes in the importance of continuing education and the role image competition has along with education in growing and evolving as a photographer, as well as a business owner. She also believes that all photographers have a responsibility to help educate other photographers, as well as clients. Jen and Tim, her husband (and part time lighting assistant) reside in Big Piney, Wyoming with their two dogs, Owen and Izzy. They have four children, Kennedy, Collin, Hayden and Payton as well as two granddaughters, Addyson and Rilynn and three grandsons, Hudson, Lincoln and Grayson.

     




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  • Deep Dive Workshop into The Magic of Search Engine Optimization with Colby McLemore

    • 05 Jun 2023
    • 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
    • Hampton Inn & Conference Center 319 Speen Street, Natick MA
    • 12 registrants
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    The Magic of Search Engine Optimization

    with Colby McLemore

    Monday, June 9, 2023

    Registration starts at 9 AM

    Time: 10:00 am - 4:30 pm

    Hampton Inn & Conference Center, 319 Speen Street, Natick MA

    When was the last time you looked something up in the Yellow Pages? When was the last time you Googled something? How can you do business without a website that no one can find? You know the answer. Search engine optimization (SEO) is all about getting you not only closer to the top but also making it much more enticing to click on.

    There is pay-for-click (PPC) or you can sweat to get your clicks (organic SEO). We will be focusing on the one that takes time and effort instead of money – sound good to you? It might, but your rewards will be directly related to the amount of sweat you produce. This is a workshop where you will be working, so roll up your sleeves, bring your laptop, computer, or tablet and be prepared to participate. We will be going deep and at the end of the workshop, you’ll already be well on your way or further along your path in getting more customers. You’ll understand what it is, why you need it, and leave already having done a lot of the work and having a checklist of what you should do next. This isn’t for those who are easily mystified, this is for those who want results.

    “Can I just say ‘WOW’?  I am extremely impressed with Colby’s presentation on SEO. He IS on top of the game and knows his stuff. SEO is a subject that seemed way over my head but Colby shared a ton of knowledge and quite a few coveted secrets he has developed from years of his own research and experience in a clear, concise, and understandable way. It was truly valuable. Thank you so much, Colby. I have already started to implement what I learned.” --Donna L.





    Biography

    Colby McLemore is the owner and visual storyteller of Colby’s Photos & Videos. He is a full-time professional whose work revolves around advertising photography and videography for businesses as well as for individuals. If he isn’t onsite at a job, you can find him in his downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, studio. If you are ever in East Tennessee, please reach out. He’d love to show you the studio and our lovely city.

    Colby works around marketers and advertisers every day. He attends as many of their trade meetings locally, regionally, and nationally as possible. He has been on the board of the American Marketing Association Knoxville and the American Advertising Federation of Knoxville for years. Surrounding himself with the best marketing professionals within the industry, even Colby picks up a tip or two. Within the marketing industry he is considered an advanced enthusiast, among local photographers, he is considered over the top. He has earned his Master’s, Craftsman, CPP, and Certified Drone Photographer. He loves letters behind his name and is trying to get a few more.

    Colby has won more awards than he feels he deserves but a lot fewer than many. He’s was in the Top Ten of the Grand Imaging Award in the commercial category. He’s squeaked out a Gold Triangle,National Award, an ASP State Award, Fuji Award, Kodak Award and all the cool ones at his local and state affiliates. He blasts his horn about them from the top of Knoxville’s tallest building.

    To learn more about Colby and to see examples of his work, visit his website at www.colbysphotosvideos.com

    Registration starts at 9 AM

    Location: Hampton Inn & Conference Center
    319 Speen Street, Natick MA

    Monday, June 5 , 2023

    Time: 10:00 am - 4:30 pm
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