We’re pleased to announce the PWP Q3 2007 Image Contest. 

The theme for this contest is:  Motion.   Contest images may be from any event or situation (wedding, portrait, or even personal work).  Images submitted will be judged on technical merit and how well they demonstrate the theme of the contest. 

Prizes for this contest have been generously donated by Blurb Books 

1st Prize:  A coupon good for two 40-page Large Format 13×11 Landscape hardcover books with dust jackets.
2nd Prize:  A coupon for two 40-page 10×8 (landscape or portrait) hardcover books with dust jackets.
3rd Prize:  A coupon for two 40-page 7×7 hardcover books with dust jackets.

Blurb is a creative publishing service that enables professional photographers to quickly create beautiful, commercial-quality books, both for clients and for business promotion. Blurb’s free bookmaking software works on a Mac or PC and features hundreds of professionally designed magazine-style layouts and backgrounds, including elegant wedding themes. Books come in four distinct sizes, including gift-sized 7×7, Standard 10×8 Landscape or 8×10 Portrait, and Large Format Landscape 13×11. Hardcover books come with fully customizable dust jackets, and both hardcover and softcover book bindings are built to last. Blurb’s service includes a free bookstore where you can market and sell books via email invitations, book previews, and more. Set your own price, and then sell your books to clients in the Blurb Bookstore keeping 100% of the markup. There’s no minimum order quantity and books are delivered in 7 to 10 business days. 

Digital Precision Imaging (ProDPI) has generously offered the following prizes for the top 3 placements in the 2nd Quarter Pro Image Contest.
1st Place:
(1) 16×20
(1)16×24
(1)20×24
(1)20×30
+ (1) 16×24 of the winning image
2nd Place:
(1) 16×20
(1)16×24
(1)20×24
+ (1) 16×24 of the winning image
3rd Place:
(1) 16×20
(1)16×24
+ (1) 16×24 of the winning image
Printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Super Type PD Luster Paper using their award winning Fujimoto SHP-5080.
All top 10 image placements also receive a PWP t-shirt.
For more information about the Pro Contests, check out the 2nd Quarter Contest thread in the Pro Access area.

We are so thrilled to have LabPrints as a sponsor for our seminar series by Walter van Dusen and Neil van Niekerk.

LP Digital Studio is a comprehensive suite of marketing, ordering, album design, and presentation tools for professional digital photographers. LabPrints works with labs and album companies across the US.

Welcome LabPrints!

We’re very excited to welcome Jose Villa Workshops as our newest advertiser.

Jose, a Brooks graduate, has quickly become on of the most respected wedding photographers in the world.  He is one of the few photographers still working in film rather than digital.  His fully loaded, 3-day workshops are held around the world and provide hands on opportunities to shoot, edit, and create a portfolio for publication.

Welcome, Jose!

Welcome to our newest advertiser: DQ QuiKeys. Dave & Quinn Chung of Alberta, Canada, created DQ QuiKeys and we’ll let them tell you about it in their own words:

DQ QuiKeys is a unique hardware/software workflow system for Photoshop.  The hardware is a custom 57-key keyboard which is tightly integrated with actions, tools and scripts which we’ve been developing for over two years.  DQ QuiKeys essentially takes the hidden tools of Photoshop and puts them in your hands … a truly unique Workflow Empowerment System for photographers.

We’re thrilled to have Dave & Quinn on board with PWP!

Welcome to RedCart, our newest advertiser.

RedCart is a fully customizable software application that provides online proofing, shopping cart, gallery creation, product and price management, order management, and discount/promotion features for photographers. 

We’re so excited to have them on board at PWP and look forward to working with them *lots* in the future.

Welcome our newest advertiser: GP Albums.

GP Albums is the oldest family owned and operated album company in the world - founded in 1934.  Today, in it’s 3rd generation of family ownership, GP continues to provide high quality albums and products to professional photographers around the world.  As a family business, GP understands the importance of preserving memories, whether they are captured digitally or on film. 

We are thrilled to have them as part of our new PWP family!

Welcome to Lavalu, our newest advertiser.  We could tell you about them, but we’d rather let Mike and Mindy use their own words to tell you about what they provide:

Lavalu is completely different.  We are a totally customized workflow solution for the successful photographer.  Here you are one of a chosen few, and your work will receive the level of detailed care that it deserves.  We are not an online hosting company – you may choose to host your images wherever you’d like – we could simply be uploading them for you.  We are not a lab – any printing you would like to outsource to us simply means that we are preparing the files to your specifications and submitting them to your (or our) favorite lab.  We are not an album company – when we design an album for you, you may have that album bound at whichever company you like best.  And most importantly, we are completely invisible to your client.  Your brides and grooms speak only to you, and need never know we exist.  We are your silent partners, helping you be the superhero that gets their images looking incredible just in the nick of time.  You will wonder how you ever survived without us!

Sounds fantastic, doesn’t it?  

PWP is looking forward to a long and productive relationship with them!