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            May Day! May Day!  I have to apologize for the lateness of this newsletter.  May is only a week old, and it’s already gotten away from me.   New GRPP Members We’ve kept up our trend of the most rapidly growing section in the state by welcoming three new...

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Have you ever wondered the same thing? We have David Makar of the Referral Institute of Ithaca  for our May meeting to help us understand how to get referrals from friends and other small business owners. Other referral-based small business owners are invited to participate in this workshop. The cost is $30 through PayPal or $50...

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    If you didn’t make the Photo Northeast (PNE) convention, you really missed out on something special.  This joint convention between the Professional Photographers of NY State (PPSNYS) and Professional Photographers Association of NJ (PPANJ) was another rousing success.  Our own Deb Woodard, President of PNE, and her fantastic team of directors from NY and NJ...

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Join us on Wednesday, February 8th at Lumiere Photo for a program on Stock Photography presented by Monroe Payne of Ithaca Stock, LLC.   “This program doesn’t do a lot of things.  It doesn’t tell you how to begin and grow a successful stock business.  It doesn’t tell you all the bits and pieces of...

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              Admit it.  You crave them.  If you say you don’t, you’re lying. Apps. If you don’t know what one is, there’s an app to help you find out. Many of you may have gotten brand new “iToys” from iSanta recently. Thanks to smart phones, we are digitally connected...

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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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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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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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