Gwinnett Technical College’s Photography Program

© Rebecca Lawler & Graphite Photography

We are proud to announce that Gwinnett Technical College’s photo program graduate Rebecca Lawler is being featured by The Knot as best wedding photographer in Georgia. One of her images has been published in the Fall 2012 issue of The Knot magazine, and her business, Graphite Photography, listed among the 2012 Georgia Best of Weddings.

Rebecca has also been selected for “Best of Gwinnett 2012“, which will be listed in the magazine and website mid-November.

The Knot was founded in 1996 and has become one of the most used wedding planning resources through website, magazine, books, and broadcast.

Visit Rebecca’s website at www.graphitephoto.com.

Congratulations, Rebecca!

Deadline for this year’s PDN Faces Photo Contest is coming up! Enter before May 23, 2012 in any of the following categories:

• Animal Portraits
• Commercial/Editorial/Assignment
• Personal Work
• Babies/Children
• Self-Portraits

Winning images will be featured in PDN’s August issue and in an extended online gallery.

Entry fees are $35 for professionals, $15 for amateurs.

For more info visit http://www.facesphotocontest.com/index.shtml

Join top digital imaging expert Eddie Tapp for a webinar on gallery quality digital printing today at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The event is sponsored by Ilford and x-rite.

To access the video broadcast visit http://www.macgroupus.com/xrite/webinars/?utm_source=Lyris&utm_medium=eBlast&utm_campaign=Ilford%2BXrite%2BWebinar%2BInvite%2B5/3/12

Cowboy and Girl, John Sumner

Can you capture the rural South’s unique “sense of place” in a photograph or series of photographs?

If so, don’t miss the opportunity to enter this year’s Slow Exposures photo contest. For a fee of $50.00 you can submit up to six images.

The deadline is June 15, 2012.

For more information and to enter the contest go to http://web.me.com/slowexposures/Site/CALL_FOR_ENTRIES_2012.html

Photo by Sophia Wallace

Don’t miss the opportunity to enter PDN’s 2012 The Curator photo contest, for a chance to win great prices and have your work exhibited at The Curator group show in summer 2012!

You can enter any of the following categories:

Portraits/Nudes

Installation/Still Life

Abstract/Mixed Media

Nature/Street Photography

Photo Essay/Reportage

Student Work

The fee to enter is $45 per image, or $ 60 per series.

Deadline is April 9, 2012. Extended through April 16, 2012.

For more information visit http://www.pdncuratorawards.com/index.shtml

Lower semester student Heather Hendricks was selected as an Honorable Mention Finalist at the pdnedu Student Photo Contest 2012 with her black and white series “Farmers Markets”. Her pictures are being featured in pdnedu’s website and one of the images was printed in the Spring 2012 edition of pdnedu Magazine.

To see the whole series visit http://contest.pdnedu.com/gallery/2012/?contest=life.

Congratulations, Heather!

Graduate student Lori Kolbenschlag was selected as a finalist of the 32nd Annual Best of College Photography contest, organized by the Photographer’s Forum Magazine, from among 18,000 entries. Her picture will be printed along will all other finalists, honorable mentions, and winners at the 2012 Best of College Photography annual publication.

Congratulations, Lori!

Friday, March 9, 2012, Scott Kelby will be presenting Light It. Shoot It. Retouch It. LIVE! class at the Cobb Galleria Convention Centre.

For more information visit http://kelbytraining.com/event/atlanta-ga-2/?utm_source=atlanta-ga-2-announcement&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=lsr-atlanta-ga-2-moreinfo.

Don’t miss the final deadline for this year’s PDN Photo Annual this coming Friday, February 24!

The contest’s categories are:

- Advertising
- Magazine/Editorial
- Photo Books
- Photojournalism/Sports/Documentary
- Corporate Design/Photo Products
- Personal
- Stock Photography
- Websites
- Student Work
- Video

For more information visit: www.pdnphotoannual.com/?eb1

ACP opened a request for artists’ public art proposals for the 2012 edition of the festival.

Deadline to apply is Feb. 12, 2012

You can see samples of past work at https://www.callforentry.org/fair_plans/911.pdf

For call details go to https://www.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=911&utm_source=E-Newsletter&utm_campaign=8d6c643f39-callforentries_publicart&utm_medium=email