Dutchess Regional
Professional Photographers
A Non-Profit Organization Dedicated To The Educational Needs of Professional Photographers
Menu
NewsletterPresident's Message - September 2010 Wow, it's September 1st already ! . . . where did the Summer go ? I personally have been extremely busy all summer. My wife Alexis and I went on a four week vacation in Europe in June - a two week cruise on the Mediterranean Sea, and then a two week bus tour through Eastern Europe. In July, I was elected, or rather appointed, "President" of the Fishkill Historical Society by the FHS Board since the President resigned rather suddenly effective July 1st. During August, Alexis and I were both very busy planning upcoming activities at the historic Van Wyck Homestead Museum in Fishkill. When you have a half an hour or so, log onto www.FishkillHistoricalSociety.org and read the full text on the Main Screen, and then also click on "Events" and "News". You may want to attend the September 11th or 12th slide show presentation on Dutch Colonial Settlers in the Hudson River Valley (Peekskill, Fishkill, Spackenkill, Cobleskill, Plattekill, Catskill, etc. <"Kill" in Dutch means "Stream" or "Creek" > ), or you may be interested in the Revolutionary War reenactors' encampment on Saturday, September 18th. In May, at Frank Dispensa's suggestion, Theresa Terilli established a "Meet-up" Website for our Dutchess Regional Professional Photographer's organization. Frank and your DRPP Board felt that it would be a good way to "advertise" the existence of our DRPP Group, to local photographers who happen to browse "Meet-up Photographers" on the Internet. Hopefully it will attract individuals who are interested in improving their photographic expertise and they'll join our DRPP organization. It's also a good site to use to confirm members (and non-members) attendance at upcoming DRPP dinner meetings, and to share comments. Please sign up as a DRPP Member on the "Meet-up" Link via our DRPP "Events" Screen. (I see that we currently have 15 of our 50 members signed up on this new Site - it takes 5 to 10 minutes to create your membership account; 15 to 20 minutes if you have to search for a good photo of yourself . . . like I had to !). Thursday, September 9th, is the first dinner meeting of our Fall 2010 Season. Three DRPP Members have been asked to make mini-presentations of 20-30 minutes each: Frank Dispensa will give a brief presentation on how to give your photos a 3 dimensional look by using off-camera flash techniques - indoors and outside. Frank encourages members and guests to ask any technical questions you may have. Tom Doyle will talk briefly about his vacation road trip to Maine and Nova Scotia in July, and show a 15 minute Slide Show entitled "4,098 Miles in 28 Days" Tom will share some of his secrets for getting the most out of your Landscape photos. Steve Lynch will talk about his 4 week European vacation in June - a two week cruise on the Mediterranean Sea and then a 12 day bus tour through Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, the Bavarian Alps and ending in Germany. Remember: Either e-mail Theresa Terilli at TerilliT@optonline.net to confirm your dinner reservation by Tuesday evening, Sept. 7th, or log onto our "Meet-up" Website and confirm your reservation by Tuesday.
Dutchess
Regional Professional Photographers, Inc. 1. Renew and maintain our Professional Photographers of America (PPA) affiliation. 2. Maintain or hopefully increase the number of active DRPP Members. 3. Maintain
or increase the number of DRPP Members who are PPA Members. 4. Organize one or two half-day seminars or group field trips between May 2010 and October 2010. 5. Get more members involved in DRPP's Print Competition Committee. 6. Have two or three members participate in Membership Committee - greet members and assist Treasurer in collecting dinner payments at each monthly dinner meeting. 7. Continue to distribute the New Member's "Welcome Kit" created in 2008. Create a membership card that will provide local discounts to photographic services. 8. Advertise the existence of our DRPP organization - have upcoming meetings published in local newspapers to attract potential new members. 9. Encourage
creativity and awareness of photographic trends (ie: Adobe Lightroom) 10. Offer
informal critiques of member's Prints during the Social Hour prior
to each 11. Encourage members to join our Board of Directors and possibly fill vacancies on the DRPP Board in April 2010. The President's Term of Office ends on April 8th, 2010. 12. Utilize
our www.DRPP- NY.org website to promote our DRPP organization. 13. Continue to post Print Competition winners' names and Prints in local newspapers (with a reference to our website) to hopefully attract new members to join DRPP. 14. By April 2010 make a tri-fold brochure about DRPP to display at various locations or to distribute at photographer's trade shows - ie: local Bridal Shows. In short - we need to publicize our existence to attract more members. Revised as of January 1, 2010. ©
2010, DRPP
|