IMPORTANT: if the student name is different from the payee name, please send an email (subject line: Four Nights) to goldengateschool@yahoo.com and state both the student name and payee name.  Four Nights registrations are NOT transferable to another person.

Please select the appropriate category (member or non-member) below and click on the ADD TO CART button under that category to make your online payment/registration. 

NOTE: You can choose to pay online by either of one of the following methods:

a) use your PayPal Account (if you have one) OR

b) click the CONTINUE button at the bottom of the PayPal page and click on “Don’t have a PayPal account?” to enter your credit card information. You can pay online by credit card and do not have to log in to PayPal (or sign up to be a PayPal member) unless you wish to.

NOTE: The credit card transaction will show up on your monthly statement as “Professional Photographers or PPGBA.”
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$100 for PPGBA members

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$150 for non-members

Networking, hors d’oeuvres and no-host bar begins at 5:00 P.M. Dinner starts at 6:00 P.M.

Click HERE to register and pay online!

Menu choices are

• Pork Chop Hawaiian
• Sole Meuniere SOLD OUT
• BBQ Vegetables and Tofu SOLD OUT

$25 for PPGBA members if paid by February 2
$35 for PPGBA members if paid after February 2

$50 for nonmembers by 2/1/09, $60 after February 2

(non-member difference may be applied towards PPGBA dues if redeemed within 30 days)

Come join us for Food, Fun and Fellowship at our Annual Awards & Installation Celebration!

PPGBA’s annual awards and installation banquet is coming up soon. The 2009 dinner was such a success that the committee has chosen to host our annual event at Trader Vic’s in Emeryville again this year on February 21 – its our hope that you will ALL come and join us for this festive evening.  It’s a wonderful excuse to gather with fellow photographers and to honor and support our colleagues, friends and industry supporters while enjoying great food, a lot of laughs and a few floating umbrellas while viewing a great presentation of the best images from this past year.

The evening will include the installation of our new directors and officers, a presentation of awards to honor the winners of the year-end print competition, special recognition for outgoing President Jorge Lehmann and our greatly appreciated association volunteers.

Come early, and help us set up we can always use your help, the more the merrier! Seriously, if you’d like to volunteer; for example – by helping make this the best celebration ever – we need people to make calls to encourage fellow members to attend, distribute door prizes, or assist with registration or decorations, please contact Jeanne dePolo at jdepolo@depolophotography.com

Trader Vic’s address is at 9 Anchor Dr. in Emeryville.
Although everyone knows how to get directions on the Internet these days, here are some brief instructions on how to get there. From San Francisco: take I-80 E toward BAY BRIDGE/OAKLAND (go over the Bay Bridge). Take the POWELL STREET exit, EXIT 9, toward EMERYVILLE. Turn LEFT onto POWELL ST. Turn RIGHT onto ANCHOR DR. Continue to #9 Anchor Drive. The phone number is 510/653-3400 – for further directions. (do NOT call the restaurant to RSVP for this PPGBA event.)

Sponsored by:

Networking and hors d’oeuvres begin at 7:00 P.M. Program starts at 7:30 P.M.

Grosvenor Best Western Hotel, 380 S. Airport Blvd., S. San Francisco.
For directions, please call the hotel at 650/873-3200 or click on this link.

PPGBA members – no charge
Non-members – $20 at the door
APA, ASMP members – $10

(non-member difference may be applied towards PPGBA dues if redeemed within 30 days)

PPGBA’s February 25 monthly meeting is titled, Ask the Divas… In preparation for our seminar on the following day (Friday 2/26 – A Day with the Divas) we are pleased to welcome even more local diva talent to the stage for a lively panel discussion to prepare and whet your photographic appetite for 2010!

(from left to right: speakers are shown in alphabetical order by last name)

Kimberly Sayre, Cr. Photog. CPP, will moderate the panel of successful women in photography, and they will field your questions on various topics relating to wedding style, boudoir photography, working with kids and balancing your own family life, how to make sense of the basics of social networking, and some workflow advice to boot! These busy women have hardly noticed the economic slowdown, and are just the experts to share some useful information to help you streamline your photography business and pursue new avenues of revenue generation!

On the panel:

Jeanne de Polo, CPP – Oops, I Twittered when I meant to Facebook…

http://www.depolophotography.com/

Does all this social networking nonsense make your head spin? Jeanne will touch on a few tips for getting started (and for a more intense crash course, sign up for A Day with The Divas the workshop held the following day details here: /calendar/divas_feb_26/ )

Stefanie Herzer, CPP – Hey, this doesn’t WORK or FLOW!

http://www.natural-light.org/

Stefanie will answer questions about how to organize your images after a shoot, and what steps to take to get started in adopting a workflow that will keep you on track and organized when the sessions start to flow through the doors! Stefanie is also sharing much, much more at the Day with the Divas workshop the next day, so make sure to sign up as space is limited!)

Danielle Fletcher – Sexy Photography for Sassy Girls

http://www.daniellefletcherphotography.com/

Hear how Danielle successfully launched her Boudoir Brand, and is now shooting in San Francisco and New York! She’ll share tips on location scouting, posing, and thoughts on retouching, and how to take it just far enough without going overboard! Ask her about her favorite resources for comments and critique to constantly improve your art!! Learn how she connects with her clients over and over again to create stunning intimate portraits that can change their life!!

Shannon Montez – Honey, Did You Pick Up the Kids? Photography for a crazy, lovely, amazing, sublime, beautiful, happy life…

http://shannonmontez.com/

The sessions, the orders, the processing, the designing, the laundry, the homework, the laughter, the tears and all the wonderful things that come with balancing a successful photography business AND a happy household with a husband, a dog, and four active children! If you want to know the secrets of balance, just ask a busy person… Shannon’s wonderful lifestyle portraits show life at its best, not all perfect and posed, but as it happens from falling in love to getting married and having babies all while keeping a (mostly) sane grip on her own life!

Shannon Stellmacher – Fashion Inspired “Couture Wedding Photography”

http://www.shannonstellmacherphotography.com/

How come there is never enough time on a wedding day to always create beautiful art?  Shannon shares her special knack for creating a timeline for photography on the wedding day that allows for her to make incredible images for her clients. A licensed esthetician, Shannon is also an expert in makeup, and always has tips for clients to look their best for their photographs. Shannon ’s style is sexy, focusing on the beauty of her subjects, and the passion between them both on their wedding day and off…

As we are for the most part a volunteer organization, we have limited resources to upload information to our website, nor do we have an adverstising section on our website. Our primary vehicle for reaching our members is our monthly newsletter, The Bulletin, that reaches ALL our members (not all of our members are on-line.)

To send a press release (text only, no photos please), please forward your information by email to our newsletter production staff. Please put “industry news” in your subject line. Text may be edited for space, and publication will be scheduled on a space available basis.

If you are a PPGBA sustaining member, PPGBA can provide you a set of member address lables at a nominal fee that you can use for direct mail promotions, please contact business manager Fred English for more information. (PPGBA does not distribute e-mail addresses of our members.)

If you would like to place an advertisement in the newsletter OR if you would like information about becoming a PPGBA Sustaining Member, please contact Julie Olson.