Professional Photographers of America (PPA) introduces OurPPA.com as a
place where photographers can chat, ask questions, share ideas and post
image galleries in a robust community that serves PPA members, as well as
the photography community at large.
“We’re very proud of this exciting new resource,” comments PPA President
Ann Monteith. “OurPPA.com was created in specific response to members’
requests for an online community where they could interact and build a
sense of oneness with other photographers. In the process of building the
site, we recognized the greater benefit of making the online community
available to everyone in the industry, not just PPA members. This means
photographers will have instant access to more information, more creative
ideas and more photographer friends than any other place online.”
PPA members asked for a dynamic, interactive online photography community,
and after significant research and planning, OurPPA.com is ready for
launch. The intent is that the site’s many discussion forums and
photography galleries will provide insight, education and networking for
photographers worldwide. At no cost, photographers will be able to solicit
advice from peers, exchange opinions on new products, share their images,
or even seek mentors from a world of experienced professionals.
“Photography changes so fast that we all need answers during every step of
our careers—and we often need those answers in a hurry, so developing this
online community makes perfect sense,” proclaims Sandy Puc’, Colorado
photographer on PPA’s board of directors, who was instrumental in the
creation of the resource. “It’s always easier to ask questions, try new
things and go through growing pains when surrounded by a support group,
which is exactly what photographers will find at OurPPA.com.”
The forums are divided into numerous categories—New Ideas, Rookies,
Copyright, Legal, Business, Marketing, Portrait, Wedding, Sports & Events,
Commercial, Technology and Photoshop—so photographers with different
specialties and photographers of varying levels of experience will all be
able to find a place in the online community where they can get the
answers and information they need.
“We’ll continue to add new resources and features to the site,” assures
Gregory Aide, PPA Production Manager who will support the community from
PPA’s headquarters. “We already have a broad base of users, but as it
grows, and as we collect more input, the community itself will determine
what additions and changes are needed. The users will find their own
direction and mold the community themselves.”
The free access online community is poised to grow in leaps and bounds and
become the most user-friendly, all-inclusive source of information in the
professional photography field.
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