Professional Photographers Association Queensland: AGM and Chris Hall Studio Visit

AGM
Before the Studio Visit, the PPAQ members met for our Annual General Meeting at Chris Hall's Studio... (Thanks Chris for the use of your facilities and space).

We had an informative evening with Glen recapping on the past years events and achievments of the PPAQ and a fantastic financial report from Lesley.
Farewell's and gifts were given to four of our PPAQ council members who will no longer be on the council however we will still have the pleasure of seeing them at future events. A huge thank you to Lesley Downie, Syd Owens, Peter Williams, and Paula Gray for all your assistance in the past year in making the PPAQ what it is today.

Our new council has been appointed for the coming year and we are all very excited about what this new team will achieve and endevour to keep the standards that have already been set by the previous council and a certain key member, Lesley Downie who has dedicated many, many hours into the PPAQ.

Introducing the Council for 2010/2011-
President: Glen Knoblauch
Vice President: Kris Singleton
Treasurer: Yohti Jenkins
Secretary: Julie Collins
Councillors: Helen Mc Connell & John Reyment

With only Glen and Yohti continuing on from the previous council, we have a nearly all new team. Huge congratulations and welcome to you all for joining the council and we look forward to working together and as Glen said "Breathing new life into the PPAQ"...

Studio Visit
Another very successful Studio Visit took place at Chris Hall's Studio in Park Rd Milton.
After a short coverage by Chris of his journey to success he showed us a great new opportunity for our business's to grow with a referral system he created. I think many photographers were impressed and spent time after the meeting talking to his staff to set themselves up in the system. If any photographers couldn't make it to the Studio Visit or didn't get a chance to speak to one of the staff, please don't hesitate to contact Chris Hall's studio direct and they will be happy to help you.

Once again the great attendence of 50+ photographers, enjoyed an evening of plenty of drink, nibbles and Pizza Capers pizzas.

We had a bit of laugh at the papers Glen was using to read his Presidents report....
(An old nude portraits broshure!)

Lesley's exciting financial report showed a huge rise in our finances over such a short time which will go towards future advertising for the members.