General meetings:
Every 4th Thursday
Networking 7pm
Program 7:30 - 10pm
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Veteran's Memorial Cntr
Rotunda Room
4177 Overland
Culver City, CA
Click here for map
The board arrives
at 5:30 for dinner at
Tender Greens
You are welcome to come and socialize.
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Calendar
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Don't miss these top-notch experts speaking at PPLAC! In February, Lia Sergerblom will enlighten us on Marketing Portraits. Yogi Patel will dazzle us with his Weddings in March. In May, Ken Sklute will amaze us as Canon Explorer of Light and in June, Lee Varis will sharpen our Photoshop skills.
These inspiring and informative programs are designed to expand your skills, encourage your creativity, and challenge you to be the best photographer you can be!
January 28
OPEN HOUSE
February 25
LIA SEGERBLOM
March 25
YOGI PATEL
April 22
PRINT COMPETITION
May 27
KEN SKLUTE
June 17
LEE VARIS
July 22
PRINT COMPETITION
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PPLAC's Monthly
Photography
Swap Meet
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Find photography gear you need at a great price or sell good equipment you no longer use at PPLAC's monthly, member-only swap meet. Bring your gear to meetings early, set it at the swap meet table, and let the magic begin!
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Greetings!
 Happy New Year and welcome to 2010!! Your Board of Directors at PPLAC has an incredible speaker lineup for our general meetings this year. With rock star photographers like Ken Sklute, Eddie Tapp, Gil Garcetti, Lee Varis, Lia Sigerblom and Yogi Patel on our speaker list, you can't afford to miss a single meeting this year. To start the new year, our Annual Open House and Member Exhibition on January 28th offers an opportunity to show your wares. Bring some of your best images (one album or up to 3 mounted prints no larger than 20x24 each) along with family and photographer friends -- and get ready for food, fun and networking. I look forward to seeing you there!Jim BrammerPPLAC President
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OPEN HOUSEJoin us on Thursday, January 28th at 7 p.m.It's an Open House at PPLAC! Bring yourself and your pro photog friends for fun, food, and 'fotos'. Find out all that PPLAC has to offer you and your photography business.
Bring up to 3 images, no larger than 20x24, any subject, mounted, matted, your choice, no rules (or bring 2 prints and an album).
You must be a PPLAC member in good standing to exhibit your work.
Don't miss the fun!
JUDGES CHOICE AWARD - New for 2010!
We will be giving a special award out to the best image displayed at the January meeting.
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Robin Swanson Workshop
February 15th
Put some BUSINESS in your photography business! Sign up for the Quickbooks Workshop for Photographers with Robin Swanson. This DON'T MISS event will be held on Monday, February 15th from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Robin's studio in La Canada (4626 Crown Avenue, La Canada, CA 91011). As a Certified QuickBooks Professional Advisor Robin helps other professional photographers use QuickBooks software to accurately account for their finances. Robin is a professional photographer and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) who combined her accounting and business skills with her photo expertise to create a successful photography business. Her motto is "Saving the world, one photographer at a time". Space is limited to 10 photographers, and it will fill up fast at this bargain cost of $49 for members and $69 for non-members so sign up today with Karen Nakamura at knphoto@sbcglobal.net
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PPC PRO PHOTO EXPO
February 5th - 8th
Pasadena Conference Center
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WEST COAST SCHOOL
Attend PPLAC's January open house, and buy raffle tickets for our scholarship drawing. They're $5 per ticket or 5 for $25 for PPLAC members. Guests can get tickets for $10 each or 3 for $25.
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Make the next wedding or portrait you shoot picture perfect! Get the scoop at the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International Conference. WPPI will be at the magnificent MGM Grand in Las Vegas from March 4-11. Go to www.wppionline.com -- then click on "WPPI 2010" in the upper left-hand corner to get to the conference site. Use the code "PPLAC" for a discount!
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What's happening around town?
The 19th Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition January 14 - 17, 2010 Santa Monica Civic
1855 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401 Returning
to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, photo l.a., the 19th Annual
International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition moves back to
it's former home at 1855 Main Street, Santa Monica, California.
Conveniently located, just off the 10 Freeway and two blocks from the
beach.
Over the past
eighteen years photo l.a. has earned a reputation as one of the
foremost art fairs and the leading photo-based events in the country.
Presenting the finest galleries from around the globe, this 19th
edition of photo l.a. promises to be the best ever. We are very proud
to be presenting a preview installation of the upcoming Museum of Latin
American Art (MoLAA) exhibition: Changing the Focus: Latin American
Photography (1990-2005), the first survey exhibition to be presented in
the Los Angeles area of Latin American photography and photo-based art
generated between 1990 and 2005. The curator, Idurre Alonso, will give
a talk about the exhibition.
photo l.a. proudly presents the
US premiere of The La Brea Matrix (http://labreamatrix.com) Produced by
Lapis Press, Schaden.com with the support of the Goethe-Institute.
Additional programming will be added to the website on an ongoing basis.
photo l.a.
7304 Beverly Blvd. No.128
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323-937-4659 · www.photola.com Fair Hours
Friday, January 15th 11am - 7pm: Public Hours
Saturday, January 16th 11am - 7pm: Public Hours
Sunday, January 17th 11am - 6pm: Public Hours
Tickets
$20 1-Day Pass
$30 3-Day Pass
$80 Collecting Seminar
$10 photo l.a. Lectures
$75 Benefit Reception
Collecting SeminarsIntimate guided tours of the exhibition by experts before public hours. The $80 fee (per seminar) includes a 3-Day pass.All
tickets can be purchased at the Santa Monica Civic box office. Tickets
for lectures and seminars are limited, we suggest tickets be purchased
in advance.PPLAC members get a $5 discount
on admission to PhotoLA.
Just mention you belong to Professional Photographers of LA County!
------------------------------------------  As this past year rolled to an end, I had a lot of photographers contacting me, asking how I was running my business, how I was marketing myself, and how I was showing up so high in google search results for lots of different terms. I received enough inquires and talked to enough of these photographers to realize there was a greater need for a workshop that covered all of these things. There's tons of workshops out there on taking photos, but not very many that teach you how to get more leads and convert those into paying clients. That's our goal with this workshop, teach you those skills to increase your business in 2010. If you have any members who might be interested in this workshop, feel free to forward this info onto them, and also, here's a link where they can get a seat for only $600: http://hhworkshops.com/#/ppc/ ------------------------------------------- "BEST OF TAG 2010"
RECEPTION
Saturday, January 9, 2010
TIME: 5-8 PM
NEW LOCATION: BERGAMOT STATION, D-3
2525 Michigan Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310.829.9556
HOURS: Tues - Sat 11-5
TAG Gallery Website -------------------------------------------
WHAT'S YOUR BUZZ?PPLAC wants to know what you're up to. If you'd like your special announcement included in the next newsletter, send your 250 word blurb and 2 small jpg photos about your BUZZ to Alicia at: webmaster@pplac.com |
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