Upcoming events.
Summer Picnic
☀️🍔 Join Us for the PPA of PA Summer Picnic! 🍔☀️
📅 Date: Sunday, September 14th
🕐 Time: 1:00 – 5:00 PM
📍 Location: Pavilion #2, South Middleton Park
534 Park Drive, Boiling Springs, PA 17007
We’re bringing the PPA of PA family together for a fun afternoon of food, fellowship, and photography!
🥩 PICNIC FIRST: The organization will provide Pulled Beef BBQ, hotdogs, and bottled water. Please bring your favorite sides, desserts, or extras. Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0948A4AA22ABF4CF8-58034433-summer
📋 ANNUAL MEETING: After the meal, we will hold our Annual Meeting, an important session where we will vote on new board members and discuss bylaw changes. Your voice matters, please be there!
📸 PHOTOGRAPHY DEMO: To finish off the day, join David Foltz for a Senior Lighting & Posing Demo with a senior guy model. We will use the park’s beautiful trees and creek as our backdrop, and you will even have time to photograph the model yourself.
👉 Mark your calendars and don’t miss this exciting mix of community, business, and creativity!
#PPAofPA #SummerPicnic #AnnualMeeting #PhotographyDemo #CommunityAndCreativity
Mastering ChatGPT & Canva for Marketing!
💻✨ August First Thursday: Mastering ChatGPT & Canva for Marketing! ✨💻
Join us for our August First Thursday Event where we’ll explore how ChatGPT and Canva can help streamline your marketing and save you time—all while boosting your brand’s impact.
📅 Date: Thursday, August 7th
🕖 Time: 7:00 PM EST
📍 Where: Zoom (link will be posted that afternoon)
🎤 Speaker: David Foltz, Marketing & Communications Chair for PPA of PA
Here’s what you’ll learn:
⚡ ChatGPT – How to create Facebook posts, emails, and more in seconds
🎨 Canva – Tips to customize graphics and make them fit your brand effortlessly
📈 Combine both tools to streamline your marketing workflow and elevate your online presence
Whether you’re looking to level up your social media, create eye-catching graphics, or save hours on content creation, this session will give you practical, real-world tools you can start using right away.
✅ Mark your calendars and don’t miss this session!
#PPAofPA #FirstThursday #MarketingMadeEasy #ChatGPT #Canva #PhotographyBusinessTips #StreamlineYourWorkflow #DavidFoltz
Register Below:
Capture - Summer Workshop
📸 Get Ready for Capture 2025 – Our Summer Workshop is Almost Here! ☀️✈️
Join us in Bedford, PA for two exciting days of hands-on photography education and creative exploration at the Capture 2025 Summer Workshop! This will be a PPA EDU workshop worth 1 PPA Merit for 6.5 hours of education.
🗓️ July 25–26, 2025
📍 Bedford County Airport & Bedford American Legion
🎟️ FREE for PPA of PA members | $129 for non-members
June Event
A Comprehensive Guide covering the basics, beginners to advanced equipment, workflow, posing, editing and pricing. Hands-on workshop, bring your cameras!
May Event
Join us for an introductory workshop on PhotoPills, the powerful all-in-one photography planning app that has been called the Swiss Army Knife of photography. Whether you're a landscape, architecture, cityscape, or astrophotographer—or simply looking to improve your natural light photography of any subject—this session will teach you how to harness the app’s advanced tools for precise project planning and analysis.
April Event
Are you ready to expand your creativity in capturing the wonder of the world blooming, growing, and living around you? In this 1.5 hour live workshop you will receive dynamic instruction on techniques to enhance your close-up photography. You will experience live shooting demonstrations, creative tips, and opportunities for questions and answers. Topics will include layering, dramatic light, shooting through and double exposures with bonus editing tips! You’ll be given time to practice with instructor feedback. In addition all participants will receive a Lensbaby tool to promote unique artistic effects. Join us in creating compelling close up images!