The March meeting for the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group will be held on Wednesday, March 12, 2008, in Cordura Hall 100 at Stanford University from 7:30-10:00 pm.
Meeting Organizers
This month, Alvin, JC, Oliver, and Chris will be hosting the COBA meeting in my place. I will be finishing up my trip in China, where I will have been photographing and filming a documentary on the life and times of China’s first feminist.
The topic for this month is Making Money with Photography. We’ve got two great speakers who approach the business in different ways. Read on!
Believing You Can Make Money With Photography
As a nature photographer, Oliver Klink likes to dazzle his audience with unexpected beauty, expand their horizons, and reflect the natural diversity in the world. Concerned with our rapidly changing planet, Oliver has embarked on photographing animals in the wild to capture their behaviors and share a glimpse of nature often unseen by humans.
He teaches photography workshops in the Santa Cruz Mountains on hummingbirds, in Oregon on grebe courtships and Alaska on grizzly bears and eagles. His photographs are exhibited at various local galleries, with his next exhibit starting on March 7 at Modernbook (Palo Alto). In his presentation on making you believe that you can make money with photography, he will discuss:
- Starting a business
- Products (Prints, workshops, stock)
- Pricing
- Promotion
- Reality vs. Myths
Oliver Klink received a MS Physics from Queen’s University (Canada) and an MBA from San Jose State University.
His updated schedule can be found at www.incredibletravelphotos.com
Building a Photography Accessories Business
Chris Pedersen has been passionate about photography since he started taking pictures with an Argus instamatic in the early 1970’s. His passion has opened the door to his shooting NCAA sports while in college, meeting and photographing Ansel Adams in his home, and pioneering several imaging-related businesses while working at HP.
In 2007, he retired from HP, and took advantage of the opportunity to start several photo-related businesses and pursue his lifelong dream of making a living at doing what he loves. He is now the Chief Inventor and Founder of Phoxle Photo Accessories, a Senior Analyst specializing in imaging industries at DIGDIA, and the owner of his Corporate Event Photography business PQ Photography.
SmugMug Monthly Assignment: SPRING
Spring is in the air! The winner will get a free 1-year Pro account subscription on SmugMug for having the best photo of the group!
Only new photographs taken from the previous meeting date to the next meeting date will be accepted.
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