Rangefinder Magazine
December 2004
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WPPI Spotlight
 New WPPI Director
WPPI is pleased to announce the appointment of Phillip E. Abel as Director
of Wedding and Portrait Photographers International.
Phillip joins WPPI with
an extensive background in the photographic industry, most recently as field
marketing manager for Fujifilm. His extensive career in the photographic industry
includes sales with Fujifilm and Oriental Photo, photofinishing with the Photo
Factory in San Diego and 12 years as a professional photographer with the U.S.
Navy.
“In his role at Fujifilm, Phillip has been indirectly involved
with WPPI for many years. In addition, he has the ideal background in photography,
education and marketing to help maintain WPPI’s continued growth,” commented
Skip Cohen, president of Rangefinder Publishing.
New Venue, New Dates for ’06 and ’07
We’re pleased to announce our dates for WPPI 2006 and WPPI 2007 conventions
together with a new venue.
There’s no question that we’ve been feeling
a few growing pains with BALLY’s, Las Vegas. So, we went to work on a
terrific solution: We will take over both Paris and BALLY’s Hotels in
2006 and 2007!
The tradeshow will be held in the Paris Hotel Ballrooms, giving
us the ability to have over 120,000 square feet of space for exhibitors, as
well as our print exhibit. This represents almost 50 percent more space than
we currently have. In addition, all of our programs will be held at BALLY’s,
utilizing all of the space we currently use for our tradeshow. Our total utilized
space for programs will essentially double!
Tradeshow dates for 2006 are April
9–11, 2006, with set up on April 7
and 8. Dates for 2007 are March 25–27 with set up on March 23 and 24.
The Paris Hotel Ballrooms are located on the BALLY’s side of Paris and
no farther from BALLY’s front door than our current tradeshow location.
We’ve also been able to secure extremely favorable room rates at both
BALLY’s and Paris Hotels for both years.
Year after year we know you
have a choice regarding those conventions you choose to support. Thanks to
your support, WPPI has grown to become the most popular convention in professional
photography. We intend to do everything we can to keep the momentum going
into future years.
WPPI Members Chosen to Shoot Oprah Wedding
Oprah has underwritten another million-dollar wedding in Los Angeles. Kodak
was awarded the photography end of this event and chose WPPI members and
speakers at WPPI 2005, Alisha & Brook Todd of Aptos, CA, to be the photographers!
Erika Burgin, Alisha’s sister, will be assisting. The wedding will
have been broadcast, hopefully, by the end of November or early December
on “Oprah.”
Online Convention Registration
You can now register for the 2005 WPPI Convention and Trade Show online! Read
program descriptions and see what Plus and MasterClasses are available. Online
discounted price for WPPI members: $185 (regular member price $210) Visit
www.wppinow.com/.
Album Rules Online
The WPPI Awards of Excellence Album competition rules and guidelines are now
online. As you may have heard, albums will now only be accepted as digital
files. Each album must be submitted on its own CD-ROM as JPEG files. The
minimum number of image files is 20; the maximum is 50. The specs for the
JPEG files are listed in the rules and guidelines. For more info visit: www.wppinow.com/.
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