Southern Minnesota Professional Photographers Association

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Hello friends!
Any professional photographers who are interested in an awesome organization for education and networking, check out TCPPA! The lineup for 2023 is awesome, with speakers every month and much more.
In case you're interested, here is a great opportunity to join TCPPA for $40 off your first year (new members only)! Below is a code for $20 off a *new* TCPPA membership. Start a NEW Studio membership (reg. $199) by December 1 AND take advantage of their Early Bird special of $179 to make your first year cost only $159!
The 2023 lineup was just released - https://youtu.be/mix2epK353E. New members can attend the November event for free! Bonus: if the new member joins in the next 24 hours they can also register for our Members Only WHCC Tour happening next week (space permitting).
Code: HEAVAN22
Join here - www.tcppa.org/join-us
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TCPPA 2023 SpeakerLineup

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Thank you to Fitzphoto for the awesome light location class this afternoon. Thank you for coming out to for me the meal and our awesome host Tom and all the ACI gifts.

Reminder our awesome event is in ONE week!!
You need to register online to confirm so that ACI can figure out how much food they will need to provide us! Thank you to TOM for hosting us too!
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Upcoming Events — Southern Minnesota Professional Photographers Association Sep 19 3:00 PM15:00 Outdoor Lighting with Fitz Photo! Monday, September 19, 2022 3:00 PM 8:00 PM 15:00 20:00 Google Calendar ICS Sign up below! See you on September 19th! View Event →

Hi SMNPPA Friends,

Thank you to all who came to Sonja’s Studio for our event yesterday with Mary Jo Hoffman. Many thanks to Sonja for hosting, Mary Jo for her beautiful presentation, and for Tom Stanley for stepping in for our afternoon presentation. We wish Dave Johnson a speedy recovery. It was great to see everyone and we hope you left with several takeaways and had a fun time.

At the beginning of the day yesterday, we touched on the future of SMNPPA. To give a little background, SMNPPA has been an affiliate organization of PPA for over 40 years. Once called the Cornbelt, it has brought in hundreds of speakers teaching hundreds of photographers. Up until recently, SMNPPA would meet monthly for education and fellowship. Programming was on a consistent day of the week (the 3rd week of every month). Schedules were cleared and that date was always marked for SMNPPA. During the pandemic, we lost our neutral in-person meeting spot and like most organizations, we worked to keep SMNPPA afloat, offering online education, and when it was safe, in-person again. Over the past couple of years, we have seen our paid membership stay somewhat consistent, but, our in-person class attendance has declined. This has unfortunately made budget and future education planning challenging. To help alleviate some of those planning challenges, we have had numerous discussions as to the frequency of class, moving from monthly to quarterly. (For this calendar year, being quarterly, please mark your calendars for Monday, September 19th to join SMNPPA at Tom Stanley’s in Faribault, MN - more info to follow)

What does the future of SMNPPA look like? It was announced at the event yesterday that the September event would be the last for SMNPPA. BUT, as surprising as it was to hear in person and may be to those of you reading this…it doesn’t have to be! We would love to see SMNPPA continue and know you would too. Each of our current board members have held positions on the board in different roles for over 5+ years. Like you, we all have families, kids, and jobs that also need our attention. It’s time to pass the torch to a new wonderful board whom we would be happy to guide. We are, after all, Southern MN - and Southern MN stretches from South Dakota to the Mississippi River.

The future of SMNPPA needs YOU! Now more than ever!! Our current board will be stepping aside at the end of 2022 and we truly hope 3-4 of you will give it serious thought to step up and in to keep SMNPPA afloat. We truly hope that this won't be the end of SMNPPA. Those interested in picking up the reigns, please let us know as soon as you can. We would plan to meet and share with you to help the transition go smoothly - and a transition we hope it is - a pause, not a cancel.

Thank YOU for being a member of SMNPPA,
We hope to hear from you soon,

Heidi, Lori, Nicole, & Lucy