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My daughter Julie Proudfoot and our friend Dawn Havrelock  attended the SYNC convention for Senior Photography in Florida.
Afterwards they were fortunate enough to  photograph Sarah and Chris in Ybor City for some romantic fun engagement images – in and around the city of Ybor.

What an opportunity – they did a great job and had a lot of fun.

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After 6 years on the board of directors,this last year as Past president was my last. It is such an honor to serve such a great organization and I will never forget this time. I was honored with my Service award medallion (now I have a “dangly” also), presented by John Glass, Past president just before me, and presented a surprise one to Steve Post. I presented Clint with his Past President’s plaque and enjoyed being up at the podium quite a bit. The biggest surprise was that I received the 2009 Wedding Album of the Year award – a beautiful award to proudly display! It was for my FINAO album from the zoo ( On my web page album menu link – 2nd album down) http://www.wallyspicephotography.com/bridalalbums/bridalindex.html Julie and I also both received 2nd place awards for our Folios – Julie for the portrait category with Ella’s Day in the Life, and mine in the Illustrative category with the Matanuska Glacier in Alaska

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We designed some folios of our work and entered them into the  Detroit Professional Photographers Association in April in the 3 categories – wedding, portrait and illustrative – for both Julie and myself – Wally.  These were 10×20 single image photos on a hard cardboard backing.  This is the same size as an album spread and can also be framed.  There were quite a few entries; they were judged by our peers and we will find out the results at the DPPA banquet in June.

Wedding Folio category

Portrait  Category

Illustrative category

On June 17th, we held our anual banquet for the Detroit Professional Photographers Association at the Roostertail in Detroit for a “Night out on the River”. It was a great evening – Julie was the banquet Chairperson and did an awesome job – everyone enjoyed the food, the ambiance of a great location and the camaraderie of friends.

For me it was an ending to a great year as the president that I will never forget.  My gavel always looked so great on my display shelf among the antique camera collection.  But John Glass, the Past president before me, presented me with a new permanent gavel on a plaque for me to enjoy as “Past President”.  I will be on the board for another year as the Past President and look forward to serving this great organization another year.  Julie will be the secretary for the upcoming year and as she has been doing for so long so well – she will continue to be our “raffle girl”.

We thank our newsletter Editor Hugh McLean for taking our formal background photos and Brian McElhone for taking the candids. Thanks also to my brother in law and his wife Steve and Pat for taking some photos and being there to support Julie and I. Congratulations to everyone who received prizes and honors.

I have the files for all images taken, so if someone wants any, please contact me.

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I am the president of the Detroit Professional Photographers Association and March 11 we hosted Jerry Ghionis – a word renown wedding photographer and speaker  – from Australia. We were fortunate to get him to stop here on the way from Australia to Las Vegas where he will be speaking at WPPI – the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International Convention.

We filled the house with over 200 photographers – and we all marveled at his phenomenal photographic talent, his passionate and entertaining delivery and savy business and marketing advice.  As the president, it was my priveledge to introduce him and run the program. He spoke all day and again in the evening for our regular meeting.  Julie is also on the board and did a great job as our raffel girl – we had so many great gifts donated by our vendors that everyone wanted to buy them.

Times like this makes me really proud and enjoy my role as president of this great  organization that does so much to keep photographers current on the latest advances and trends around the world.

The members of my OES – Eastern Star Chapter in Berkley had been gathering needed supplies and toiletries for the “Doorstep” Women’s shelter for Homeless and abused women and children in Highland Park. On April 19, some of us gathered at the Berkley Masonic Temple to put together 100 bags, 50 for adults and 50 for children.  Everyone got a full size towel, washcloth, full size shampoo, deodorant, conditioner, tooth brush, tooth paste, comb, sewing kit, etc etc.  The children’s bags including some great toys, coloring books, crayons etc. We delivered them to the shelter the next day and they were so appreciative and thrilled to receive this generous contribution.  This is such a tremendous help to them and a great charitable service project for us.