This is a brief description on what a certified professional photographer is from the www.Certifiedphotographer.com website.
When you hire a photographer, you want the best—but ensuring that you get the best photographer for the job can be a difficult task. That is where we can help.
As the leading certifying agency for imaging professionals, the Professional Photographic Certification program is recognized throughout the industry. When you see a photographer displaying Certified Professional Photographer seal, you can be sure that he or she is among the less than 3% of all imaging professionals who have successfully completed and maintained our requirements.
Those who have earned the Professional Photographic Certification have passed a comprehensive written exam measuring their technical expertise, and have successfully submitted their work to a panel of judges for review and approval.
Every five years, a photographer must renew his or her credentials by participating in continuing education programs and periodically submitting work for critical evaluation. This helps assure you that certified photographers maintain their level of expertise and continue to develop new skills and techniques.
I have always believed in pursuing higher education in photography along with the challenges of industry accreditation. I have been a certified photographer for over 15 years with re-certifying every five years.
Whether you are choosing a photographer for portraits, wedding or commercial photography, look first to be sure they are certified...
This October, Audrey Wancket and Wancket Studios will participate with an elite group of photographers around the country in a very special family portrait promotion. Throughout October, we will celebrate “Family Portrait Month,” a wonderful opportunity for you to update your family portrait (or portraits of your children), and help to support Operation Smile, which treats children around the world who suffer with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities.
Along with other studio members of Professional Photographers of America (PPA), we have pledged to contribute $25.00 from each session to PPA Charities, which has chosen Operation Smile as its charitable partner.
What’s more, we have decided to have a few delightful portrait products not offered at any other time where the proceeds will also go directly to this great cause. Just a hint:
“Smile Cards” This set of 5 custom printed cards that feature your portrait on the front and Operation Smile's logo on the back send to your special friends and relatives...
Visit the studio to see the other "portrait " gifts and how you can help save a smile.
Thank you to our Smile Partners, Children’s Dentistry Group, LLC at 195 South Rand Road Lake Zurich, Illinois 60047 847-726-0300
Dr. Paul D. Herer, D.M.D., M.S and Dr. Melissa J. Patenio, D.D.S., M.S. have generously donated the amount needed to fund a child's surgery.
For more information on Operation Smile visit http://www.operationsmile.org/
Join these exceptional pediatric dentists and Wancket Studios in helping to change a child's life.
Call now to schedule your family portrait-847-587-3350
Hi everyone-Yes I know, I am behind in my blogging...again. If you know me, then you know I have plenty to say, it's just that I need to sit still long enough to put it on the blog.
It is Family Portrait Time here at Wancket Studios. Our clients are so good about bringing in the children and the grandchildren and for some the great-grandchildren. Now it is time to celebrate the family. Families are always changing and it is so important to capture different phases in your lives.
This is one of my favorite quotes:
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
~Henri Cartier Bresson
I know...summer has been here a while already, it's just that it really has not felt like summer until this past couple weeks. It seems like we wait around for summer to begin and before we know it, it's time for our kids to start back at school. I can tell that many of my clients have felt the same because all of a sudden we are scrambling to find available portrait appointments before school starts.
Our wildflower garden has been well loved this year. If you have always wanted a garden session, please let us know and we will put you on the waiting list for next year.
Fall outdoor portrait sessions tend to fill up fast as well. Call the studio to inquire about having your family photographed outside in September and October.
By the way...When was your last family portrait? If you have children living at home and it has been more than five years...yes that’s right, you’re due!
Have a great end of summer,
Audrey
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Finally, the Professional Photographers of America's print competition is over. Every year I choose 4 images from sessions during the last year for competition images. I usually narrow
the choices down to about 10 until the very last minute where I pick 4. Choosing these images is harder than you might think. Just like every mother thinks her children are the most beautiful children on earth (as they should), I adore my clients and portraits and want to compete with them all. Some of the images that I choose are because they are unique in some form or another. This might be a new background, furniture, flowers or a spectacular pose or attitude on the subject. I know many photographers compete with images that are not their studio work but photographs of majestic landscapes or travels; however, I love to choose my everyday work. I know each and every session is a possible competition image for me.
What does competition mean to you the clients? Well, It means that you can count on Wancket Studios maintaining the highest possible quality as well as artistic content.
What does competition mean to me? Personally, I love the challenge of creating new and inspiring images for my clients that will also be judged by my peers. Many industries reward the top or best in their field. Photography is the same. Continuing to compete and win the awards and merits for my work, earns the respect of my fellow photographers as they earn mine. That is gratifying and continues to encourage me to grow.
Here are two of this years Competition Images.
Audrey
Just a note for my customers that love our furniture we use in many of my portraits. I always hear, "where did you find that?" I know...I am a shopaholic. It is fashionable though, there is even a movie about it. Anyhow, back on subject, Honquest Furniture for Living, my favorite furniture store is in the final week of their "Dutch Auction". What that means is that this is the week that there are many pieces of furniture and accessories that are 70% off. It is overwhelming the amount of items that are marked down. I am debating between a few new chairs for the studio. I only wish that Wancket Studios and Honquest Fine Furniture could be located right next door so I could "test out" all the beautiful chairs.
Happy Shopping!
Audrey (a confessed shopaholic)
Check your newspapers today! One of our long time clients is in the Kohl’s Catalog. The flyer was in my paper today and Katie is on page 11 twice. We have been photographing her family since she was a baby. The family lives in Michigan and still comes back every couple years for new portraits. This is a portrait of Katie from 2 years ago. As you can see, she has a long modeling career ahead of her!
Just thought you would like to know...
Audrey
