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• For those of you attending the ASP Banquet, it will begin at 7 p.m. SHARP, Monday, January 16th in the Versailles Ballroom on the 3rd floor of the Hilton Riverside. (Note: the PPA Grand Imaging Awards are from 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.)
• The post-banquet reception will follow immediately in the Jefferson Ballroom just down the hall. Everyone is welcome. Have your picture taken, enjoy some snacks and a cash bar while you share some time with your friends.
• Ticket pick up and table selection will be at the ASP Booth, Sunday 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. (we moved the time up one hour to circumvent delays) and Monday 11:00 a.m. – NOON.
• The dinner menu for the banquet will be as follows:
Spinach Salad
Chicken New Orleans
French Rolls & Butter
Traditional Creme Brulee
Coffee or Tea
If you require a vegetarian dinner, please notify your wait staff.
SEE YOU AT IMAGING!
See Kalen’s articule in this months PPA Magazine on page 34.
Starting Over: IUSA-A Wellspring Of Knowledge
Kalen Henderson
Starting over
Imaging USA: A wellspring of knowledge
Kalen Henderson shares what she’s learned beginning again in an industry dramatically different from the one she first entered more than two decades ago.
At one time, no professional photography studio was without essential gear like back – drops, posing props, tripods and lighting solutions. Today, the studio’s must-haves include a Facebook page, a special font for its logo, and a slogan to go with its brand.
I mostly understood all that when I was starting over—the font selection says a lot about your style; Facebook is the Yellow Pages of this generation (if they can’t find you there, you do not exist)—but what about the perfect slogan? Facebook research for inspiration turned up “Live. Love. Laugh”; “Letting You Be You”; and “Photography As Nature Intended.”
Then I thought of something I’ve been saying for years: It’s not what you own, it’s what you know. I’d found that out in my first go-around, thanks largely to discovering a pool of knowledge all in one location, at Imaging USA (imagingusa.org). I met a lot of inter – esting characters as I walked up and down the aisles of the tradeshow that year, and the print competition glowed like the Emerald City. Soon I understood how to use the equipment I’d gone in hock to buy to become a better photographer and businessperson.
That vital info is available at every IUSA. The seminars and workshops, the trade expo, the print exhibition and the networking with other professionals from all over and in every stage of their career, all add up to a tar – geted educational experience second to none.
Before every Imaging USA, I still write down questions I need answered. Whether it’s about a new product or service, a camera setting, or new ways to pose families for por – traits, I don’t leave the convention without the answers. I can remember my dread of asking a recognized and much decorated photographer a stupid question and embar – rassing myself. But I found that medals didn’t make those photographers better, their experience did, and the knowledge they gained came at the price of making mistakes and learning from them. If I heeded their advice, I could avoid making some of those mistakes and save myself a bucket of grief.
Attending Imaging USA is an opportunity to grow as a professional photographer. You make new friends and expand your network of support and knowledge. You learn what works in business, in art, in marketing, in selling, in handling clients, and much more. You get to peruse every kind of product for professional photographers, every kind of new technology. Take your checkbook and you could go home with one of those prod – ucts at a specially discounted expo price.
You can stay home and surf the Internet looking for shortcuts to success. Me? I’ll continue to invest my hard-earned money in attending Imaging USA.
WHO’S YOUR BUDDY?
Have you renewed your ASP Membership yet? Remember that you can save big on your membership renewal by signing up a new member before January 2nd.
Simply renew your membership and another new member and each of you pays just $50 for the year. Better yet, find three new buddies who pay just $50 each and your dues are FREE.
An ASP Buddy can be any PPA member holding a PPA degree who was not an ASP member in 2011.
Got some ASP history?
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of ASP, we’re looking for any historical photos, articles, etc., to use for a slide show at the January banquet.
Got something? Email Kalen Henderson at kdanice@mac.com, right away so we can use anything that has helped make this organization so great for so many years. Thanks in advance
| Banquet Tickets Going Fast! Don’t Get Left Out. Tickets to the annual ASP Banquet are going fast, according to ASP Executive Director, Jon Allyn, so get them while they are still available.Early bird tickets are still available at just $55 each until January 2nd, after which they will be $65 each. (And if you’re lucky enough to buy a ticket at the ASP Booth in New Orleans, they will be $75 each. If available.)The banquet will be held Monday, January 16th at the Hilton, New Orleans. PLEASE NOTE: There will NOT be a pre-banquet reception in order for you to attend the PPA Grand Imaging Awards from 5:30-6:30 p.m. The banquet will start at 7 p.m. |
The black-tie optional ASP Banquet begins at 7:00PM on January 16, 2012 in the Versailles Ballroom,
2nd Floor of the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. Everyone is welcome.
There will not be a Pre-reception this year in order to facilitate participation at the
PPA Grand Imaging Awards scheduled from 5:30PM – 6:30PM that evening.
There will be a Post-reception immediately following the banquet in the Jefferson Ballroom down the hall.
Ticket prices are $55 until January 2, 2012, $65 after January 2, and $75 at the ASP Booth.
ASP members should order their tickets on their dues renewal form.
Non-members should contact Jon Allyn at 800-638-9609 for tickets.
By the way, current ASP members can sponsor a “buddy” (any non-ASP member, PPA degree holder in good standing with PPA) and they’ll split the dues!! See the ASP Magazine, renewal form, website, email blast and upcoming 10 minute webinar for details.
ASP would like to congratulate the following people for their achievements in photography at their
Illinois State Convention.
Dan Thorton: ASP Elite Award, Best Black and White, Best Illistrative , CPP , 4 for 4 and Top 10
Michael Barton: Best of Show, Best Album, Kodak Gallery Award, 4 for 4 and Top 10
Rick Trummer: National Award, Best of Out of state , 4 for 4 and Top 10
Again Congratulation to all these ASP members …
