Win Sam Puc’ For A Day At YOUR Studio!

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Can you imagine how much your business would benefit to have marketing and management guru, Sandy Puc’ spend a day at your studio! It will happen if you are the lucky winner of the “Sam U to You” raffle at the PPA Charities Gala on January 15 at IUSA!

Your best bet to be a total winner is to get to the PPACH Gala on time so that you can buy one of 100 water bottles containing a $25 gift certificate that can be redeemed for good stuff on Sam’s website, www.ukandu.com. That way you’ll get a water bottle to use for the rest of IUSA and be entered into a drawing for a FREE full-day consultation from Sam at YOUR studio. Sam will pay for her own transportation, visit YOUR studio, help you with your marketing – and buy you lunch! It simply couldn’t get any better than that! If the bottles run out, certificates will still be available.

The certificates can be redeemed at Sam’s website, www.ukandu.com, which features a wealth of marketing information. Many of the marketing kits are only $20 so you can apply the difference towards more than one kit. Why buy just one certificate? Why not purchase two or three and stock up on marketing ideas for the New Year?

The Charities Celebration Event will take place at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in the Lone Star Ballroom on Level 2, beginning at 8:00 p.m. Hope to see y’all there!!

PPA Charities Receives $10,000 Jamieson Foundation Gift

A very large THANK YOU goes out to Jennifer Jamieson of San Francisco on a recent donation of $10,000 to PPA Charities. The donation came from the Jamieson Foundation in San Francisco, founded in 1984 by her grandfather. The family business has been in sand and gravel since 1903, and was prominent in much of the rebuilding of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake.

Jennifer graduated from Santa Clara University in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in marketing and earned her masters degree in business administration from the University of San Francisco. After working as an Enterprise Account Manager at Wyse Technology in San Jose and an Account Manager for Microsoft, Jennifer decided to follow her dream to become a professional photographer, opening her studio in 2009.

“I became excited about PPA Charities after spending time with Britney Fullgraf at the PPA Charities booth in Nashville and attending the Charitable Marketing classes presented by Sandy Puc and Vicki Taufer. I love the integration of the passion of photography and what we do to make people’s lives brighter with our talents. I am excited about our role with Operation Smile and helping those less fortunate and blessed to be a part of such a wonderful experience.”

…and PPA Charities is blessed to have Jennifer Jamieson. Thank you Jennifer for your generosity!

Texas School “Bonanza” Goodie Basket Valued at $6,000!

One lucky attendee at the January 15, 20011, PPA Charities Celebration at Imaging USA in San Antonio will win an incredible educational treasure — worth over $8,000 — in the form of instructional products produced by teachers at the 2011 Texas School, which will take place in Dallas on May 1-6, 2011. For the winner, the Bonanza Basket, which will be the featured raffle prize at the PPACH Celebration, will be the next best thing to taking ALL of the fabulous instructors listed below home! Tickets will be sold for only $20 each . . . so get those $20 bills ready!*

Plus: A Texas School Scholarship for 2012 also will be included!

Here’s what the instructors have donated:

  • Suzette Allen — 10 different CDs of assorted brushes, actions and edges
  • Ross Benton —
  • DougBox — 2 Books – Doug Box’s Guide to Posing for Portrait Photographers and Professional Secrets of Natural Light Portrait Photography
  • Carl Caylor — Artistic Elements of Portraiture DVD set
  • Don Chick — Portrait Lighting Using a Large Softbox CD
  • Jim Cunningham — Painting Portraits DVD
  • Greg Daniel — Easy Cameo Painting CD, Painting Simplified CD Floating Watercolors, Purpose Driven and Images CDs, $100 Midsouth Gift Certificate
  • Don Emmerich — Nancy Emmerich’s favorite brushes CD and Cameracraftsmen of America 2010 Book
  • Robert Faust — Job Shadow Robert on an Engagement or Bridal shoot to learn his techniques
  • Mary Fisk-Taylor — Marketing Kit and Sales Plan Book
  • Mike Fulton — Guide to TTL Flash Book
  • Joe Glyda — The Artist’s Way book, Rogue Flash Benders
  • Colleen Gonsar — The Ultimate Senior Marketing Kit and Creating a Lifetime Customer Book
  • Elizabeth Homan — Senior Posing Guide and Family Posing Guide
  • Janine Killian — Janine’s Idea Guide DVD and Children Sessions Show
  • Julianne Kost — Adobe Photoshop Lightroom3
  • Steve Kozak — The Art of Composition, Bridal Posing Guide and Senior Posing Guide CD’s and Quit Using your Camera on Program, Photographing People Outdoors, Fundamentals of Flash Photography and Fundamentals of Studio Lighting DVD’s
  • Scott Robert Lim — Tiny Trigger Set – includes 1 Transmitter and 3 Receivers
  • Don MacGregor — 2 Scholarships to Image Explorations School – July 10-14, 2011
  • Dan McDonald — Photoshop 101 DVD
  • Ann Monteith — Ann’s 2nd edition of The Professional Photographer’s Guide to Marketing Success, published December 2010.
  • Larry Peters — 2009 Posing Guide CD
  • Sandy Puc’ — Family Tour DVD
  • Ralph Romaguera — Complete Collection of Educational Tools: School Days Manual, Pricelist Book and Bonus DVD, Sports, Marketing, Art Series, Digital workflow/Show Me the Money CDs
  • Richard Sturdevant — DVD Set “Stur De Vinci”
  • Michael Timmons — Photoshop Tutorials CD and Over 300 Backgrounds and Overlays Templates CD
  • Tim Walden — Studio Lighting, In-Depth & In-Detail
  • John Wilson — Designer Template CD
  • David Ziser: Captured by the Light book, Kelby Media – “Live Wedding Shoot” DVD, Kelby Training “Rapid Tips and Tricks” DVD

Simon’s Inspiration

If you want to catch the holiday spirit, take a moment to visit Simon’s Circle, by clicking here.

Simon is the 10-year-old son of Honorary PPACH Trustee for Florida Britney Fullgraf. Simon has already raised over $240 by selling notecards and bookmarks of his own images.

You also can keep up with Simon’s fund-raising activities by networking with him on Facebook.

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Thank you, Simon, for your support of PPA Charities and Operation Smile . . . but even moreso for being a role model and inspiration to all of us!

Sturdevant Masterwork to be Auctioned at January 15 Charities Celebration!

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Attendees at the live auction portion of the PPACH Celebration on January 15 at Imaging USA are in for a riveting ride when bidding begins on “The Deadman’s Hand,” Richard Sturdevant’s exceptional artwork, printed by BWC Photo Imaging. With a value set by the artist of $3,500, it’s possible that Celebration attendees will see that figure surpassed, given the accolades that Garland, Texas, photographer Sturdevant has received of late: He has not only engaged an eager following of collectors of his remarkable interpretive images and richly layered composites, he has consistently wowed PPA-approved jurors in national and district competitions. At this year’s Southwest PPA district print judging, all four of his electronic imaging entries received perfect scores of 100. “The Deadman’s Hand” is one of those extraordinary images.

According to an article that appeared in the December 2010 issue of The Professional Photographer magazine, it is believed that no other photographer has ever achieved four perfect scores at a PPA judging. If you haven’t read the article about Richards singular accomplishment, you can find it on page 98 of the current magazine issue. See more images and learn about his multi-faceted business at sturdevantstudio.com.

The beautifully framed canvas is 40 inches wide, and BWC President/CEO Lou George has generously offered to pay for shipping to the home of the lucky winner.

The Charities Celebration begins at 9:00 P.M. on January 15, the eve of Imaging USA, and the live auction will begin soon thereafter.