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This year, we’ve decided to re-visit a popular activity from several years ago.  Our end-of-the-year celebration will include a “night at the theater”.  However, this is no ordinary night. To celebrate the year’s end, we will be taking in a showing of “Disenchanted – The Bitches of the Kingdom” at the Downstairs Cabaret Theater.  You...

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“If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail” – Unknown Wouldn’t it be great if you could take all the information that you’ve collected while running your photography career and be able to plan for a bigger, brighter, richer future? What?  You don’t have a plan? You haven’t collected any data? For November’s...

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The Greater Rochester Professional Photographers (GRPP) is thrilled to present a fantastic full-day seminar with award-winning photographers Walter van Dusen and Chris Rioux.  They will be bringing their high-energy program here to warm up the winter month of January here in upstate New York. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been photographing weddings for 2 years...

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                        As if there weren’t enough reasons to join the Professional Photographers’ of America (PPA), now they are offering $15,000 of equipment insurance for the rock-bottom low price of…..FREE.  Yeah, you can afford that. The PPA annual membership price is $323, which can be...

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October 2011 Meeting of the Greater Rochester Professional Photographers (GRPP) This month, we are thrilled to have Allana Taranto (Arse Magna Studio) from the greater Boston-area talk to us about “visual thinking”. Visual Thinking gives you a keener ability to see and articulate what you are seeing when you look at your own  images. This...

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Several photographers from Greater Rochester Professional Photographers (GRPP) took part in documenting the national day of remembrance that captured the resiliency and unity of the country  on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.  As part of  “Project 9.11″  forty members of the the Professional Photographers of New York State (PPSNYS),...

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What do you think writers do when they get “writer’s block”?  They branch out and do something different to spark a new idea.  Photographers can get blocked also.  Creativity takes effort, and when the effort produces lackluster performance, you get blocked. GRPP member D. Brent Walton will speak to GRPP on September 14th on “The...

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Getting together for our picnic every year is always something we look forward to. Personally, I was really happy to be able to finally host the event at our home ~ we moved recently, and have enough room now for a large crowd. We had a great turn out and enjoyed catching up with each...

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As most of the other chapters in PPSNYS have done in the past, we are planning on having our monthly meeting coincide with this free program on the eve of the PPSNYS Summer Workshop at Hobart College in Geneva. On Sunday evening, all PPSNYS members are invited to attend this free program in Scandling Center...

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Dear GRPP Members, As you know, during our monthly meetings we have a time set up for you to bring in your image prints to be critiqued by members of the group as a member benefit.  We will continue to do this for any member that brings prints to the meeting. What we’d like to...

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