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June 14 at 7:00pm, SMILE Station, 8210 SE 13th Sellwood
...if FLOWERS is all you see... you missed at least 13 things!! (click on the FLOWERS) Come to our June After Hours to learn the Art & Science of Keywording. Keywording is the "art & science" of tagging images for electronic retrieval - whether that retrieval is your computer file system, a software system or the internet. How you apply keywords to an image is determined by where your images are housed, who will be searching for them and how the images are intended to be used (the audience). The job of a particular keyword is to link the searcher to the image they want. Job one is understanding who is looking for your images and for what purpose. If you tag an image in a way that is meaningful to you, you can easily find it yourself. But what if someone else needs to find that image? Have you considered how they may approach the search? Keywording in a nutshell is applying the necessary terms to an image so that the searcher is able to use personally relevant terms to find it. It's a simple explanation for a very complex activity in a monumentally complex, internet-connected world...
Kirsti O'Sullivan is the founder and managing director of Keywording.com. After working for several years in knowledge management for Accenture, Kirsti joined a dynamic RF stock company. During her tenure in the stock industry she recognized that keywording was a critical factor in image sales and an area under-served in the marketplace. This was the beginning of Keywording.com. Drawing on her stock experience and data management expertise, she developed proprietary software and a unique business model for keywording as an outsourced service. Realizing her vision for quality, consistent keywording, Kirsti launched Keywording.com in early 2003 and has since built a worldwide client base. She currently manages the business out of Portland, Oregon.
July 12 at 7PM, S.M.I.L.E Station, 8210 SE 13th, Portland OR
It's the 3rd print competition! So make sure your prints are ready! We are really looking forward to seeing what you have!
Don't forget, you must be a member to compete.
August 9 at TBD, TBD
Join your fellow PMPA photographer friends, make new friends and have a great time, fabulous food. Looking forward to seeing you there!
September 13 at 7PM, S.M.I.L.E Station, 8210 SE 13th, Portland OR
Tonight is our 4th print competition, so make sure you have your images ready! Who is going to be our new Photographer Of The Year? Have you been paying attention at the previous 3 competitions? Tonight should be yet another stellar competition and we are very excited to see it!
Must be a member to compete.
More eventsMay After Hours and Print Competition
We had a terrific group at Thursday's After Hours. The prints submitted for the print competition were just fantastic. Thanks to our Judges for your insights.
April After Hours, Studio Tour
[slideshow id=10] Mark and Dawn, pictured here, along with several others, each had prints which Merited in March. It was one of our largest and most well attended competitions. Terrific Prints! Click photo above to see all the images. (thanks Danny for the candids)
PMPA members Merit at PPA Western District Competition
Congrats to Mike Anderson, Lisa Dillon, and Mark Fitzgerald whose prints were all awarded Merits at the PPA Western District Competition!! (image above, Abandoned, by Lisa Dillon & Soul Boat, by Michael anderson)