Professional Photographers Association Queensland

Monday, March 14, 2011

Julie Collins Studio Visit

Wow what a woman! She's a little package but a whole lot of personality! Julie Collins from Julie Collins Photography hosted a terrific and entertaining night for about 30 of us at her home based studio in Heritage Park.

Julie shared with us about her humble beginnings not too long ago, to where she is today running a thriving business. Julie's fun and open personality would surely be a big selling point for her clients however her images are simply beautiful. Her studio has some stunning feature images to wow her clients as they sit in the warm and homely environment of her cosy meeting area.

Julie is the proud achiever of her first Silver award at the AIPP awards in Brisbane last year!... (the first of many ;) )

I have the pleasure of knowing Julie personally and think she is a fantastic and vibrant woman and feel the PPAQ is very lucky to have her on the council. Hopefully you'll get a chance to meet her and hear first hand about her journey in photography if you didn't have a chance to get to the studio visit.

All the best Julie as you work your business and watch it grow from strength to strength!

some of the guests at the presentation

Julie about to play her slideshow

The beautiful studio

Well there seems to be no talking going on here...

There is never a shortage of pizza at our Studio visits

Glen and Ruth

Talk about hogging the pizza..heheh our funny Jodie gobbles up...

yum yum.... Ange and Yohti

eating pizza is serious stuff...

Hannah and Pete

Jodie, Jules and Helen

John Reyment and Sue Bryce Seminars

In December of 2010 to end our year on a high, we had the pleasure of two wonderful photographers in a two day seminar at the Queens Arms Hotel in James St, Fortitude Valley.

Firstly many thanks to our Sponsors who make our seminars affordable for us to attend.
We urge you to support them wherever you can in your business purchases.

RGB http://www.rgbdigital.com.au/ supplier of photographic printing and other products and home to Kayell for all your studio needs. RGB has a fantastic and easy to use image uploader and ordering system online. Check it out!
Brilliant Prints http://www.bpro.com.au/ supplier of a huge range of photographic products like Lumi Tiles, Ice Mounts and Canvas to name a few. Great service too!
Seldex http://www.seldex.com.au/ supplier of Albums and print boxes. Sue uses their products and swears by them.

BUSINESS IS SEXIER THAN PHOTOSHOP with JOHN REYMENT
On day one John Reyment of Reyment Photographics http://www.reymentphoto.com.au/ gave us some amazing insight into how we can improve our business. John has a fantastic presentation style and really engaged everyone there. The day was partly John presenting and also a fair bit of individual involvement in a group discussion and interactive workshop environment. John has had many years experience in public speaking, personal development, business and financial management and a very successful photography business. He is available for one on one business coaching so if you are interested in making such a valuable investment for your business success please contact him directly at john@reymentphoto.com.au.
Thanks John, you were an inspiration to us all and we look forward to another workshop/seminar in the future.

The round table workshop

A passionate John delivers his message

Arranging us for group therapy (hehe do we need it ??)

All eyes on John

Cindy (Studio 4) sharing

Kris from Annielyn Images doesn't know what to think...

A well deserved break

Steve (Montrose Photos) proud as punch with his iPad

Jodie from Brilliant Prints with Frances (Frances Suter Photography)

Brilliant Prints is one of our Proud Sponsors and makes it possible for us to keep our seminar prices down. Pls support them when purchasing professional products for your clients!

Hardy (Focal Point Photos), Andrew (Elite Studios) & Mike (Fisheye Photography)

in one of John's roll playing exercises.

Mmm this looks serious...

Our PPAQ president Glen (Sterling Studios)

IN BED WITH SUE BRYCE
On day two Sue Bryce http://suebryce.com/ visited us all the way from Sydney with an amazing overview of her Portrait Couture studio business. Sue is a renowned photographer in Australia and is quickly gaining a following of photographers all over the world. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed Sue's presentation, especially the beautiful fusion dvd. Sue creates this using a mixture of short video clips and stills to highlight her skills. It was very impressive and is a popular option for many photographers today who want to display the 'wow' factor. I have heard quite a few of Qld's female photographers have booked in with Sue to do one of her beautiful portrait shoots for the next time she visits (let us know how you go ladies).
Thanks Sue and we wish you all the best on your up coming overseas adventures.

It was almost a full house with Sue's seminar

Sue exudes passion and enthusiasm when she speaks... It's impossible not to be gripped by her every word.

Some hard hitting points to get us into overdrive in our business

Listening intently... however Sue did have us in stitches many times too...

Andrew and John at the food again hehe... Oh you can't blame any of us for pigging out though. Our PPAQ events provide a wonderful spread!

MMM! Battle of the Toowoombarites????

Matt from Matt & Katie and Syd from Owen Studios

Smiling duo...

Yohti (Yohti Images) and Maureen (Life in Bloom Photography)

Katie (Matt & Katie), and a couple of lovely ladies whose names are lost to me at the moment... apologies

The Queens Arms Hotel has been a terrific venue for our seminars

The very entertaining and beautiful Sue Bryce...

She is candid, honest and open in her delivery.

Thanks everyone and keep your eyes pealed for our next exciting event coming up soon!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

TWK Studio Visit - 1st March, 2011

TWK STUDIO VISIT
Thanks to Thaddeus for a fantastic, informative evening.

Thanks also to all members and non-members who attended. Studio visits are great educational and social events. Stay tuned for the next one!

Thaddeus Kulig (TWK Studio) & Glen Knoblauch (President PPAQ)

Kris Singleton - PPAQ Council Member

Syd Owen - PPAQ member

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Next Studio Visit - TWK - 1st March, 2011

The next studio visit will be held at TWK Studio on the 1st of March @ 6.00PM for a 7.00 start.
The studio is located at 101 Holland Rd. Holland Park.

TWK has mainly been a wedding studio since the mid 70’s and in the mid 80’s was shooting in the high 200’s weddings per year and even in today’s market is averaging over 80 per year at a much higher price.

This is quite an achievement and would be worth coming along to find out the TWK secret.

All bookings are via the PPAQ website http://www.ppaq.com.au/ and we will be limiting attendees to 25 so jump in quick.
Members will be $15 and non-members will be $25.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

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.