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The WPPA Awards dinner will be on May 18th during the convention. Reception starts at 5:30, and Dinner will start around 6:00. The awards will start at 6:30. Please register for the Dinner tickets by May 15th. if you are only coming to the Awards Dinner and Ceremony. If you are not attending the programming, please consider attending the Awards Dinner, or come at 6:30 to attend only the awards and Social/Roundtable. You can bring guests also. WPPA will be starting out by presenting the Image Competition Awards at 6:30. Congratulations to all of you who participated in the 2024 WPPA Image Competition. Fellowship Degrees Presentation will follow. WPPA will be honoring members who have served on the board, and committees, and participated in the Image Competition that have earned either their Hornoray Fellowship Degree, Full Fellowship Degree, or attained service bars. WPPA is a 100% Volunteer Organization and it takes the assistance of all members to grow this organization. Grand Awards Presentation will be the highlight of the evening. The Grand Awards are the Members/Board Choice Awards. WPPA members get the opportunity to nominate a fellow member whom you have seen make a difference for WPPA as an organization. This member has been volunteering, and/or participating on the board for many years, and/or has given so much to WPPA. As a WPPA member receiving any of the Grand Awards, truly is a great honor. It is a thank you coming from YOU the members! Please remember that nominations for the Grand Awards are only open until April 25th. Visit the website and learn more about the awards.https://www.wppa-online.com/grand-awards/ You must be a member to nominate a WPPA member.https://form.jotform.com/…/2024-wppa-grand-award

Saturday Program at the 2024 WPPA Convention – A World of Destinations and Adventures Landscape Photography: Achieving Technical Excellence and Crafting Artistically Expressive Images Join us for a great weekend with Doug and Laura Bennett as they share with us their techniques for achieving technical excellence and crafting artistically expressive landscape images. What’s more, they will be sharing their photographic experiences from their many photographic ventures ranging from the UAE, Europe, South America, New Zealand, and Indonesia. What could be better for our theme of “A World of Destinations and Adventures!” Instructors names: Doug & Laura Bennett, Colorado Springs, CO Email address: BennettPhotography@ymail.com Doug will speak to us about expressive landscape photography, i.e., how to craft images that will communicate and resonate with viewers and buyers. He will share elements of photographic craft and technique essential to landscape photography and to making high-quality large landscape prints for high-end sales and for PPA Competition entries. In sharing these techniques, Doug will speak to the underlying “whys”. Taking from their Texas School program, Doug will share many techniques and approaches essential to communicating emotions and artistic vision in landscape images. Great landscape photography is about making images that connect with viewers making them feel something about the subject. Doug will delve into “Dynamic Symmetry” sharing knowledge on how to design and compose your images. He will delve even deeper into composition outlining and demonstrating various visual transitions essential to landscape photography imagery to include the most important transition of all, the “progression of blacks”. You’ll learn and will understand why the rule-of-thirds is not the approach Doug and Laura take in crafting their award-winning landscape. Come find out all about that! Doug Bennett has been a member of PPA since 2011. He earned his Master’s Degree in 2015 along with his Craftsman Degree and his first Imaging Excellence Award in 2016. He achieved his second Imaging Excellence Award in 2021. He is a five-time Diamond Photographer of Year, Platinum Photographer of the Year, and a two-time Gold Photographer of the Year. Lastly, Doug is a two-time Grand Imaging Award Finalist finishing 1st in 2017 and 2nd in 2015 in the Landscape/Nature Category. In 2022, Doug achieved his ASP Fellowship. Laura Bennett most notably is the 2023 World Photographic Cup Winner in the Landscape Category. A PPA member since 2012, earned her Master’s Degree in 2015, Craftsman Degree in 2017, and her first Imaging Excellence Award in 2018 and her second Imaging Excellence Bar in 2022. She is a three-time Diamond Photographer of the Year, two-time Platinum Photographer of the Year, and two-time Gold Photographer of the Year and a Bronze Photography of the Year. Laura is a seven-time Grand Imaging Award Finalist winning 1st Place in Illustrative Category in 2013. Laura achieved her ASP Fellowship in 2020.