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Tuesday October 22nd, 2002
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October will feature the Fall Print Competition. Get your prints ready. Must be present to enter. May enter up to four images. Categories are portrait, wedding, commercial, unclassified and restoration/artwork. All prints must be mounted on 16x20 board. Image must be 8x10 or larger (minimum 80 square inches.) No name or identifier may be on the surface viewable by the judges. Work prints may be entered but will be judged as a finished image. MUST BE PRESENT TO ENTER. Members and affiliates only. One dollar per image fee.
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Inside this Issue
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Next Meeting: Tuesday October 22nd, 2002All 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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YOU ARE AT A PERSONALLY IMPORTANT THRESHOLD AND YOU MAY NOT EVEN KNOW IT. The next meeting may be the next to last PCPPA meeting. At the last board meeting the topic of officers for 2003 was on the agenda. ALL THE OFFICER POSITIONS ARE OPEN.
Never before have there been so many new tools to make a position as an
officer very easy, effective and attractive. Those tools are past board
guidance in the handbook. It makes it easy to plan meetings and somewhat
automates the program process. You know when we meet and when we don't,
what meetings involve special treatment, easy.
Pierce County Professional Photographers means a lot to each of us. It would be a shame to let it die for lack of involvement. Just think, for the first time in 30 years we have an active display. The committee will be formed at the next meeting on October 22. We soon will have demographics and wishes of our membership to assure your association is going to provide you with the necessary accoutrements to make your business prosper and at the same time provide a great social atmosphere.
We have a sign to display revealing our meeting place. In terms of communication our emailed newsletter is providing a source for communication and feedback never before possible.
Training materials have been enhanced to help you make more money in your vocation or avocation. I paid a lab $100 for severe retouching early last spring. With a little Photo Shop knowledge it would have taken me about half an hour to accomplish. That one task would have paid my yearly membership and the rental on the software. Yes there is value in belonging.
If not for PCPPA I never would have continued my friendship with Richard Varsafski of Donovan Photography in Bellevue. After the Wall Portrait Conference where I met him I would have only seen him at PPW conventions. A year ago he came to our picnic and told us how to put thousands of dollars into our pocket selling Wall Portraits.
Remember our program last January? How about learning to cut your own mats? Every time I cut one I save $10 to $40. Telephone techniques, digital photography, marketing, winning print competitions, not to mention high quality print competitions. The list goes on and on. PCPPA is worth preserving.
Run for an office. October will be the meeting to step up and say you'd like to give it a try. Yes it takes a little (actually very little) work but the benefits are fantastic.
This is no joke: If we have no volunteers for office there will not be a
PCPPA in January. 
If PCPPA folds think about what you'll loose. With the new PCPPA Think about how much more you'll gain. It's in your hands
Brad Bogue
President
All offices are open. Two years ago when David Lobban’s term as president was about to expire he asked for anyone interested to raise their hand. Nobody did. With booming voice and the slam of something on a table, David let us all know that if there are no officers, no board, then there is NO organization. PCPPA would cease to exist.
A few hands were raised, either by concern for the group, guilt or coercion,
and a board was selected. Surprisingly enough, despite a rough start,
things worked out quite well. A lot of things got done. Outside
consultants offered direction, inside folks worked hard. Within the last
year PCPPA has a new scholarship award based on activity in or about the
group. We have a better system for the library and a whole new set of
materials to help us face the new digital world. 
And for the first time in 20 years that I have been in professional photography in various groups, a functional system of public display of members work to promote professional photography is being organized and put on display.
Here’s the thing. Various board members have asked around for possible interest in running for the board positions. Nobody is stepping up. Unfortunately, Brad Bogue is just too nice a guy to brow beat anybody.
So by vote of the board of directors the newsletter is ordered to state the following:
The alternative: We have one more meeting in November on marketing. Then in January we will have the post holiday dinner party which could become the very last gathering of PCPPA and so would conclude with an auction of all the materials and property owned by the organization: The library videos and all those new Photoshop tutorials, cabinet they are stored in at Eddies, and of course that way cool tradeshow display that was just purchased by vote of the general membership.
Offices that are open:
President: This the person who is in charge of it all, who gets to tell everybody what to do, and then has to go do it when it doesn’t get done. OK, the board is actually in charge, but the pres gets to bang the gavel and really does need to be more than a figure head. Brad has served two years and is ready to step down, though he will stick around as past president.
Vice Pres: Needs to be ready to step in the president’s shoes if the
president is unavailable or finds a great job in Idaho or something. Fred
Rabel would normally be the logical choice to move up to presidency but has
health issues and is iffy to stay on even as a regular board member at
large. VP’s are also typically in charge of booking the meeting speakers
and judges. 
Treasurer: If I knew what treasurers do I might have a treasury of my own, but I do notice that our treasurer is the one that signs a check for me when I turn the receipts for the newsletter. Linda probably will not return, also due to health concerns.
Secretary: Keeps notes and minutes of the board and general meetings, sends out reminders etc. Isobel stepped in to help when her son was elected president. She may be the easiest to intimidate into staying on the job but folks she’s not even a photographer so it’s not quite fair unless she wants to.
Member at Large: Board members who want to serve but not yet ready for a specific office: Usually serve on various committees. This organization is required to have two but prefers at least three or more.
Librarian: Keep track of what videos are out, collect fees if any, hound those who forgot to return them.
Membership: Meet and greet prospective and new members. Help promote the organization to other professionals. Jerry has done a great job with the handbook and other materials and I think he will be staying on.
Newsletter Editor: Besides the President, this is the hardest job around, long hours of trying to write intelligently…(wait, what am I saying?) No, forget that, this is totally easy, folks send you articles, you cut and paste then in Word, if there is extra space you just make stuff up, like cool, could you get away with that in a real job?
Web Master: Structure and maintain the PCPPA.org website, making files like this bulletin available online, inserting images into the public pages, updating the membership info.
The new Photoshop tutorials are now available. Lots of good stuff that will
help you learn to learn how to use it. The teaching offers both a direct
‘here’s how to do something’ and indirect hints on how things work, what
things mean so you can figure out what some of the other tools and their
thousands of options work, how changing the 
radius effect the way the filter
will do its job, what threshold will do. 2
Bring a mounted print to the October meeting to be included in the location display using our new tradeshow set up. There is room for 8 prints. If there are more, later images will be used next month, if there is less then those supplying prints can hang more.
Dear Photographic Organizations, clubs, Vendors and Traders;
This is a good opportunity for your club or organization to make some money
for your group by setting a table in the show (Photographic Related Items
Only), pass the word to your members, there is still time to participate and
earn $$$ for your club. 
Vendor tables are $20.00 each, free coffee and donuts for all vendors on Saturday morning. Early setup on Friday evening from 6-9PM.
The Pacific Northwest Photographic Society announces their Second Annual Photographic Swap Meet to be held Saturday, October 26 in the Eagles Nest at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds from 8:00AM to 4:30PM. 24 large tables full of excellent photographic items for sale or trade. Feel free to make copies of the attached Swap Meet Poster flyer for your members.
Admission to the show is $4.00 Adults & $2.00 Juniors. NOTE: Discount of $1.00 off admission for bringing in canned food donations for our Holiday Food Basket Program. Net proceeds benefit the Doug Lince Youth Memorial Scholarship fund and the Salvation Army Food Program.
For additional information and vendor sign up contact: Jack Aylward at 360-377-6501 or jamiama@msn.com John Burch at 360-692-1915 or jburch@tscnet.com .
NOTE: All members are invited to submit articles, classified ads, video tape reviews from the library, rants. Email to: blkhatwhtdog@yahoo.com please put PCPPA in the subject line.
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