Business Marketing Association Gold Key Entries Now Open

Who will throw their turban into the ring and share the adventure?

The 2010 Gold Key Awards


Have you shared your stories of marketing success this year? That’s the purpose of the BMA Colorado Gold Key Awards – the ultimate reward for people working together to weave a successful campaign. The designer and the account person, the writer and the marketing director – you all work together to fit the pieces together.

For over 30 years, BMA Colorado has been hosting their annual Gold Key Awards - honoring the very best in business-to-business marketing and communications. There are 43 categories to enter - ranging from the traditional print advertising and public relations and direct mail to the new media of websites, blogs, online branding campaigns, and SEO. There is even a Potporri category if your work doesn't seem to fit any of the other 42 categories!

All entries are submitted online - no boards to have to worry about. Entrants can work on their files up until the entry deadline. Early birds (ok, we know there are a few!) get a discount if their entries are paid for by FEBRUARY 12. Everyone else can go with the regular deadline of FEBRUARY 19 - and for the really late procrastinator - MARCH 5 at midnight is it!

For more information, visit www.bmacolorado.org/goldkey

Pints & Pixels

In case you've ever missed one, here's a little preview of what goes on at an ASMP/Meetup Pints & Pixels night.

It's not your typical event, there's never a cover (but there's usually a drink and something to munch on) and we usually talk for awhile, and look at some pictures. At out January P&P, hosted by McCory James Studio, we had over 30 guests and 20 submitted work to be looked at!

Sure, ASMP is a professional's organization, but Pints & Pixels is not—We'll look at whatever work comes through the door. Comments, critiques, war stories...Sometimes it's more, sometimes it's less...But it's all good. Get it? Low-key, no schedule, all that.

We'll see you at the next one!

Call for Entries: Center for Fine Art Photography

The theme for the Center for Fine Art Photography's next show is MOTION.

Our lives are in constant motion. Photography can stop time and suspend life in one moment. It can capture the passage of hours, day, or a single second, in one image. The world is made up of people and things that move and are moved. The Center is looking for images that depict all types of motion.

Juror: Rich Clarkson’s professional career has span over 50 years and has included the positions of director of photography and senior assistant editor of The National Geographic Society, contract photographer for Sports Illustrated, NCAA, Time and Life, and has covered eight world Olympics. Rich is also a life time member of ASMP and advisor to the Colorado chapter.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS JANUARY 12. Visit the Center for Fine Art Photography web site for details.

Tear Sheet: Altitude Arts / Paul Trantow

Client: Exempla Healthcare

Usage: Outdoor / Print
Art Director / Copywriter: Colleen McLean
Photographed at Exempla Lutheran Medical Center, Physicians Pavilion lobby

Dr. D. is a world-class neurologist whom I've had the pleasure of photographing several times including during brain surgery. He's an energetic, hip renaissance sort of guy, and a star in the Exempla surgical family. The gist of the campaign is to show something interesting but totally ordinary about several of Exempla's caregivers.

Contact:
Altitude Arts Photographics
(720) 351-0770
Paul@AltitudeArts.com
http://www.altitudearts.com/
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Making Music Photography Lucrative

WE'VE ALL SHOT ROCK N' ROLL.

Few of us, however, have ever been paid much to do it.

This article from PDN Online dispels some of the myths about shooting music & musicians, as well as working with labels and within their budgets.

"What can make working for a record label worthwhile for photographers, especially jobs with smaller budgets, depends on a number of intangibles, such as the potential for licensing, future assignments in the music industry or the chance to build a portfolio that appeals to advertisers."

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Public art exhibition showcases fine art side of commercial photographer Todd Powell

Public art exhibition showcases fine art side of commercial photographer Todd Powell.

It’s hard to believe something like a calendar could challenge a commercial photographer’s fine art side. But that’s exactly what happened to professional photographer Todd Powell.

Powell’s vivid images are featured in Greenwood Village’s 2010 calendar, which goes out to all city residents and businesses in the upcoming weeks, as part of the city’s annual report.

From Dec. 1-18, a special exhibition at the City of Greenwood Village Curtis Arts & Humanities Center will showcase Powell’s favorite fine art images from this project. He will be at the gallery for an artist reception from 5-7 p.m. on Dec. 10.

During the six months he explored and photographed Greenwood Village’s urban landscape, he amassed more than 70 artistic images for the city’s staff to choose from.

City of Greenwood Village Curtis Arts & Humanities Center
Located at: 2349 E. Orchard Road
Littleton, CO
(303) 797-1779

Calls for Entry: Center for Fine Art Photography

Calls for entry for the Portfolio Showcase are due on December 29, 2009.

Fifteen photographers will be chosen to display their
twelve-image portfolio in The Center for Fine Art Photography’s Portfolio ShowCase Volume 4: Book and Online Exhibition. The show will be featured on the Center’s web site on March 1, 2010 and will remain online for the next two years.

Theme: Open - There is no theme for this exhibition.
The images will be evaluated as a cohesive body of work, rather than individual images.

The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in this exhibition. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements are welcome. The exhibition is open world wide to all professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both.