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Tuesday April 23rd, 2002
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Susan is a PPA Certified Professional Photographer from Everett. Her formal art training was in Belgium and she has lived in Washington since 1980. Her desire is to create images that can be cherished for a lifetime. Without a doubt she is one of the most enthusiastic and yet down to earth photographers around. Her work includes children, weddings, family and fine art photography. As an artist she is award winning. Her style has earned her a wide ranging reputation. She has traveled internationally to photograph weddings and complete portrait assignments. Her work has been awarded Best of Show, Best Portrait, Best Commercial, Honor Court, Fuji masterpiece Award and Kodak Gallery Award at the 2000 State convention. She received honors from the Professional Photographers of America, including a photograph internationally published in the Loan Collection book. In 2001 Susan received two Kodak Gallery Awards and Best Commercial Awards at the Washington State Convention. Susan has received an Associate Fellow Degree from the Professional Photographers of Washington, and got a trophy for the best wedding group from the PPW for 2002. Take a look at her website susanmarsidi.com, you'll see she is exceptional. Look at the simplicity, the expressions, the composition, the variety. We are truly honored to have a very distinguished speaker this month. |
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Next Meeting: Tuesday April 23rd, 2001All regular PCPPA monthly meetings are held on the forth Tuesday of the month at Eddie's Catering, 7112 6th Avenue, Tacoma (253) 565-6310
Meeting Schedule: 5:30PM Roundtable Discussion, 7:00 Dinner, The Meeting Follows Reminder: Normally non members are welcome with a $20 guest fee applicable to their membership.
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This month our speaker is a beautiful gentle person, well versed in what it takes to satisfy her clients. She will be talking about her approach to Fine Art Photography. She is putting together a business her clients rave about. I first saw her work three years ago at the PPW convention and I love to see what she's doing next. With out a doubt she is one of my favorite artists. I'm sure she will be one of yours also after Tuesday night.
I was put on the spot last meeting and it's been eating at me ever since. Fred Rabel wants you to succeed in your business!!! Fred asked me what the unique factors of my business were and you know what? I have 10. Do you think I could remember any of them? Not on your life. It made me so mad I went home and began a month long campaign with myself to learn them. The first thing I did was produce a document listing all 10. It's a document I could carry around with me and quiz myself periodically. Then I began to think, hey, there are other "automatic responses I should be learning to help sell my work. I began to put them into the document also. Now I have a trifold two page brochure I can carry around with me as a learning tool. You know what? I still don't know all 10 unique factors about my business verbatim, I will soon, though.
Do you know why someone should choose you over someone else? Can you say "One of the things that makes us unique, that you won't find anywhere else, is !"to your client should they stall? Do you know the most important thing you can ever say to a client and then have a number of unique factors you can reply with so they see you can take care of them better than anyone? I'll be sure to have the little brochure with me if you'd like to see it on Tuesday night.
Wall Portrait Conference is coming up the first week of May. Are you registered? See you Tuesday,
P. S. The next Board meeting will be Monday, May 13th at 6PM at Fife City Grill (about a block south of the intersection of Port of Tacoma Road and Pacific Highway on Pacific Highway)
The next General meeting will be Tuesday, May 28 5:30.
PCPPA has an immediate opening for a new webmaster. If you are interested, please contact the current webmaster at: dragon@owlandragon.com .
The PCPPA website is fairly small. It currently has only 57 pages, 147 images, 4 style sheets and 978 hyperlinks. The current growth rate is about 3 pages per month.
The basic requirements are the knowledge of HTML and the use of style sheets. No scripts are used on the website so that a new webmasters with little experience can be easily found when needed. I know you may argue that some database handling scripts would make the job easier but not everybody is a programmer. For the incoming webmaster there will be a transition period of a couple months to help you get used to the responsibilities.
Your responsibilities will be:
If you would like to be the new webmaster please contact me ASAP so we can get the transition going. If you would like to be the new webmaster and may not have the experience required, training is available.
There is a big cabinet fill of expensive educational videos. See the librarian at any of our regular meetings. There is $5 rental, plus a $50 deposit. Special, write a review for this bulletin and your next rental is free.
Well, this has been hell week for me, my old computer was dying (win95 was corrupted and I couldn't find my install disks) and I finally got my new machine working (a dead wireless mouse plugged into your machine is like a dead elephant in your livingroom) but it has been very trying between network problems with my new machine to getting files, graphics (like the banner and logo) copied and moved over only to find the new program doesn't recognize the old.
And labels, the three years that I've been editor, someone, usually the president cause he gets stuck doing everything that doesn't get done otherwise, has been printing them out for me cause in the 20 years that I've had computers I've never ever figured out how to print labels, evening ruining a very expensive (at the time) printer while it spewed jibberish and some labels peeled off and jammed. I've only mentioned this bizarre incompetence five times at board meetings but no one has ever offered any help and I've only spent days on this just trying to get this out, the lawn is only half mowed and the poor dog is tried of holding it.
Oh great, now what the hell happened to the rulers and tool bar? I didn't know what half the stuff was, most of it wasn't doing what I thought it was, and now I can't even see them.
What is this box, I can't get rid of it, I can't move it, why doesn't this *&A%$#@ program work anything like the last @#$#$%A&* program Arrrrgh, scream (insert image of Edvard Munch) That's it, I'm done, if it prints maybe you'll read it.
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