ASMP Colorado Newsletter

February 4, 2022

Monthly Update

ASMP Colorado Social Media contest: Congratulations to Pamela Neyman for winning our monthly Facebook and newsletter cover contest! If you have an image you'd like featured here, go to ASMP Colorado Photo Chat on FB and upload your photo. The image with the most likes will be featured here next month and on the Facebook banner. You must be an ASMP member.

We're excited to bring you this added incentive! We'll make a 16x20 canvas print for each month's winning image. We'll display these at our annual BBQ and/or holiday party. Winners will receive their prints after all 12 are displayed.

Join an ASMP CO Committee in 2022

We’re eager to diversify and include new faces and perspectives to move forward our state’s leading photographic trade group. We could use your help on a committee, so please consider what you can bring to the table, and contact Jen Magnuson, jen@jenmagnusonphoto.com, to learn more - or fill out our volunteer-interest form here.

ASMP Member Feature: Doug Gritzmacher

Doug Gritzmacher is an experienced storyteller who captures the essence of people, with images that evoke warmth and authenticity. He began his career in Washington, DC, working on a weekly television series for PBS about national security topics, and then for National Geographic Television and Film. Doug has created four documentary films that have won film festival awards and been acquired by Netflix and DirecTV. He is the recipient of a News and Documentary Emmy Award for his contribution as a video journalist. His still photo clients include Smithsonian Magazine, Denver Health, Charles Schwab, USAID and CNBC. In his free time, Doug enjoys creating photographic and mixed-media abstract art.

Website: gritzarts.com

Instagram:@gritzarts

Above Image: ©Doug Gritzmacher

Below images: ©Doug Gritzmacher

Virtual Coffee Meetup

This is an open discussion about the business of photography. Share a success story, ask questions and offer tips about running your business smoothly. All are welcome.

Date: Monday, February 14, 2022

Time: 7:30am to 9am

Cost: Free

Zoom: Please register in advance here

More info: Coffee Meetup

Topic: ASMP Academy. We will share how the ASMP Academy has helped our businesses and learn what it has to offer.

Above image: ©Karen Schulman

Randy Brown: "In the Middle of Everywhere"

Date: Thursday, February 24, 2022

Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Cost: Free

Zoom: Please register in advance here

Meeting ID: 825 5225 8218

More info here: Randy Brown

Randy Brown is a Colorado-based documentary photographer working on projects that address socio/cultural issues. His 35-year photography career has offered opportunities to work with diverse clients, primarily through editorial and academic platforms. Examples include two Indonesia-based projects, Sumatra and Borneo, with the University of Denver Department of Anthropology. Another project with organizations helping veterans with PTSD and addiction issues involved rafting trips in the Colorado River and Cataract Canyon.

Brown is now photographing and writing a project addressing a decade-long drought, the exportation of critical water resources and their existential threat to the agricultural community in the San Luis Valley in south-central Colorado

“In The Middle of Everywhere” is a documentary project giving voice to families and individuals facing the external threat of private exportation of scarce water resources amid a multi-year drought.

This part of the larger project focuses on water transfers to the highly developed Colorado Front Range from the state’s San Luis Valley by water developers working through the Colorado Water Court.

The images point at the complexities, history, spirituality, ruggedness and dedication to preserving an important way of life for all residents of the San Luis Valley of Colorado.

The project's photographs document those on the front lines of preserving water resources – families and individuals, ranchers and farmers – as well as those whose lives the agriculture industry affects.

Above image: ©Randy Brown

Brews & Business: Working with a photo consultant

Date: Monday, March 7, 2022

Time: 7pm to 9pm

Cost: Free

Zoom: Please register in advance here

Meeting ID: 825 5225 8218

More info here: Coming soon

Mark your calendar for March 7 and ASMP Colorado’s next Brews and Business. Jemma Dilag will join us to outline all a consultant can do for a photographer who is starting off or needs help. They will share details on:

Marketing tactics,
Pricing structure,
Building a client list of companies - and people,
Branding and rebranding,
Social media strategies,
… and more.

Plan on pouring a cold one - or even a hot one - and joining us via Zoom at 7pm Monday, March 7. Look for more information soon.

Above image: ©Jemma Dilag

Sangre de Cristo Arts Center Winter Exhibit 2022 - Photo Pensato

Date: January 22 through May 7, 2022

Opening Time: Friday, March 4, 4pm to 7pm

Cost: Free to $10

Where: 210 N. Santa Fe Ave., Pueblo, CO 81003

More info here: Sangro de Cristo Arts Center

Congratulations to members John Shelton and Ron Johnson for their work in the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center Winter Exhibit.

Photo Pensato is a collective of photographers with varied styles and techniques, inspired to create images that reflect their unique and personal perspectives. Photo Pensato members come from decades of experience across a diverse field of photographic output. They now focus on fine-art imagery. Their journey is embodied in “Pensato," an Italian term for a musical note so exquisite it can be neither played nor heard.

"There appears to be no comparable expression as applied to photography," said Ron Johnson, an artist featured in the show. "Yet we persist in our quest to create images that capture that exquisite 'note,' elusive spirit and the timeless power of this medium."

Above image: ©John Shelton

ANOTHER CALL FOR ENTRY!

Please enter our fourth Find A Photographer email campaign with your three best commercial images. You’ll find all the complete information and entry rules on the ASMP Colorado website. We will send these Find A Photographer emails to almost 5,000 agencies, art buyers, art directors and producers in Colorado and the Western United States!

This is a tremendous opportunity. We need you to submit your best images NOW, so that we can continue this campaign.

• Deadline is Feb. 18, 2022

• Send to: colorado@asmp.org.

You must abide by these parameters to have your images considered.

Get featured on the ASMP Colorado home page

Here's a special invitation to all ASMP Colorado Professional members and assistants. We are having a unique “Call to Entry,” and we need your participation.

We are collecting images to update the slideshow carousel at the top of our website. Your image will link directly to your Find A Photographer or Find An Assistant page. It will be great exposure and help elevate the level of professionalism amongst our very valued Professional members and Assistants.

Please submit up to three of your favorite pictures that reflect your professional style and vision. We will select one image to be featured.

Submissions are due by by February 15, 2022. Please submit to: Webmaster@asmpcolorado.org.

Important! Please follow the below specs:

• Images should be .jpg files, 72dpi, sRGB, 820px on the horizontal edge. 820x480px is preferred.

• The file name should be photographer-name_subject-name.jpg

• Please include a short testimonial on ASMP if you have one.

• Also include a link to your Find A Photographer/Find An Assistant page on the ASMP website.

Also, tell us exactly how you’d like your name to read.

Images with improper specs will be ineligible.

Thank you for your participation in this Call to Entry and in our local ASMP chapter.

Costs and Pricing webinar

ASMP Colorado Board member Greg Smith will present a Costs and Pricing webinar for PhotoShelter at 10 a.m. MST on Feb. 25. Details should be available at PhotoShelter.com by Feb. 14.

ASMP CO Newsletter call for content

Do you have news you think our members would be interested in? Have you written an article our members would like? Please email asmpconewsletter@gmail.com to have it considered for publication here.

Inspiration

Check out this interview with Peter Turnley, who photographed NYC during the lock down.

Award-winning photojournalists Yunghi Kim, Carol Guzy, and Paula Bronstein talk about what motivates and moves them, and how they work to render the facts and dynamics of a story, without an agenda, in Unflinching Grace: The Story of Three Photojournalists

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