Maryland's only Professional Trade Association Committed to the Artistic, Technical, Personal, and Business Success of the Professional Photographer

2024 - 2025 Programming Calendar


 Month        Location     
Organizer / Speaker (s) 
 		Title Type
 November 13, 2024  Ellicott City, MD  MDPPA Board  Annual Business Meeting  Annual Meeting
 November 14, 2024  Annapolis, MD  Loan Collection Committee Loan Collection Take Down  Social
 December 8, 2024  Columbia, MD  MDPPA Membership  Holiday Party  Social
 January 2025 Phil Whitebloom  Sales  Educational  
 February 2025  Ellicott City, MD Mike Moats  Macro Photography  Educational
 March 2025  Zoom  Image Competition Committee  Spring Image Competition  Image Comp
 April 2025  Ellicott City, MD

Jessica Robinson, Kim Kiely, Chris Fritchie,

Kristi Odom, and Samantha Marshall

 MDPPA Convention 2025

  Convention

Legend:

  • Critique: Feedback provided by a judge or panel on your submitted image to help guide artistic development. 
  • Convention: Annual multi-day event with various lectures, workshops, and hand-on opportunities for education and inspiration.
  • Educational: Seminar or presentation that is focused on providing specific knowledge and skills regarding some aspect of photography or related topic.  
  • Image Comp: A structured Image Competition with a set rules and guidelines, judged by a panel of PPA approved Judges or a PPA Judge in Training.
  • Meet up: Member lead outings to local points of interest. 
  • Social: Meetings that serve a social purpose for the group to network and foster connections (Parties, Picnics, Awards Ceremony)
  • Workshop: Special educational sessions that give detailed training on specific topic related to photography.

Monthly Collaborative Work Day

Join your peers to catch up, collaborate, discuss what's on your mind, projects you are working on, techniques and tricks. You do not need to be an MDPPA member to join us! Click on the links below to learn more and register!

November December




November 13, 2024 Annual Business Meeting

This in-person event will be an opportunity to hear about the association's accomplishments, discuss future plans, and participate in important decisions that will shape our organization. Learn more and register: Click Here!





December 08, 2024 Holiday Party

Join us for our annual holiday party and image competition awards ceremony, a festive evening celebrating the holiday season and the incredible work of our talented members!  Learn more and register: Click Here!

Looking Back!

Past events

October 23, 2024 2024 Annual Image Competition
October 18, 2024 Fall Fest 2024 A Day of Creativity with Joe Edelman!
October 14, 2024 October Collaborative Work Day
September 22, 2024 MDPPA Annual Picnic
September 09, 2024 September Collaborative Work Day
August 28, 2024 Bombshell Beauty: A Guide to Pin Up Portraiture
August 12, 2024 August Collaborative Work Day
July 24, 2024 MDPPA Summer Image Competition
July 19, 2024 D-I-Why! David “Buck” Buckwalter
July 08, 2024 July Collaborative Work Day
June 27, 2024 National Portrait Gallery Exhibition: Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell
June 19, 2024 Evolution of an image, from concept to GIA winner! Presented by Gary Jones
June 10, 2024 June Collaborative Work Day
June 07, 2024 Mountaintop Stargazing Adventure
May 22, 2024 Re-ignite Your Passion! Dr. Kara Elam
May 20, 2024 May Collaborative Work Day
May 19, 2024 MDPP-A - Day at the Races, and Tailgate
May 17, 2024 Assateague Federal Park Excursion
April 28, 2024 Step Back in Time: A Photography-Focused Walking Tour of Historic Annapolis!
April 11, 2024 Annual Convention 2024
April 08, 2024 April Collaborative Work Day
March 27, 2024 MDPPA Spring Image Competition
March 13, 2024 Making Travel Magic: Iceland and Beyond.
March 11, 2024 March Collaborative Work Day
March 10, 2024 National Gallery of Art Exhibition: Dorothea Lange - Seeing People
February 12, 2024 February Collaborative Work Day
January 28, 2024 Imaging USA 2024 Meetup!
January 24, 2024 Image Comp... the Backstage Pass
January 08, 2024 January Collaborative Work Day
December 28, 2023 Sailing Through The Winter Solstice Outing
December 18, 2023 December Collaborative Work Day
December 03, 2023 Holiday Party and Annual Image Competition Awards
December 02, 2023 Old Bedford Village Outing
November 20, 2023 November Collaborative Work Day
November 15, 2023 After the Shutter Closes! Presented by Bill Stover M.Printer, U.S. Army M.Photographer.
October 17, 2023 Animal Metamorphosis by Judy Reinford
October 16, 2023 October Collaborative Work Day
October 11, 2023 Annual Image Competition
September 18, 2023 September Collaborative Work Day
September 10, 2023 MDPPA Annual Picnic
August 29, 2023 Beginner Digital Painting Class
August 21, 2023 August Collaborative Work Day
July 26, 2023 MDPPA July Image Competition
July 17, 2023 July Collaborative Work Day
July 12, 2023 Presentation and Matting for Image Competition
June 28, 2023 Workshop in Photo Restoration
June 19, 2023 June Collaborative Work Day
May 24, 2023 What They Did NOT Teach Me in My MBA
May 15, 2023 How the Merit Image Review (MIR) can Benefit You!
May 15, 2023 May Collaborative Work Day
February 28, 2023 Image Comp Town Hall Meeting
February 18, 2023 Techniques for Photographing and Editing Architectural Interiors
February 13, 2023 February Collaborative Work Day
January 18, 2023 Image Competition Stories: How Competition Helped to Grow MDPPA Masters
January 09, 2023 Collaborative Work Day
December 12, 2022 Collaborative Work Day
December 06, 2022 MDPPA Holiday Party
November 16, 2022 How to Create an Authentic Themed Photo Session
November 16, 2022 Photoshop: Tips and Tricks with Carol Davis
November 14, 2022 Collaborative Work Day
October 26, 2022 Fall Fest! Styled Wedding Shoot and Print Competition
October 17, 2022 Print Competition Round Table
October 10, 2022 Collaborative Work Day
September 28, 2022 How to Get Started in Real Estate Photography
September 17, 2022 Mathew Brady Memorial Dedication
September 12, 2022 Collaborative Work Day
August 24, 2022 High Key Florals and Mastering Color with Lori Lankford
August 15, 2022 Collaborative Work Day
August 13, 2022 MDPPA Annual Picnic!
July 27, 2022 MDPPA July Quarterly Print Competition
July 20, 2022 Let's Go To The (national) Zoo!
July 11, 2022 Collaborative Work Day: July 11, 2022
June 22, 2022 Alison Carlino: Senior Portraits - The Practice and Business
June 13, 2022 Collaborative Work Day: June 13, 2022
May 25, 2022 Member Share: Macro Photography and Focus Stacking
May 09, 2022 Collaborative Work Day: May 9, 2022
April 11, 2022 Collaborative Work Day: April 11, 2022
April 08, 2022 MDPPA 2022 Annual Awards Banquet
April 07, 2022 MDPPA Annual Convention 2022
March 23, 2022 Annual Print Competition 2022
March 14, 2022 Collaborative Work Day: March 14, 2022
March 03, 2022 Image Competition Information Session
February 23, 2022 NFT! How to Make Non-fungible Tokens Fun!
February 14, 2022 Collaborative Work Day: February 14, 2022
January 26, 2022 Print Competition Critique Day
January 12, 2022 Q+A with Print Chairs about Print Critique Day
January 11, 2022 Q+A with Danny Douglas about MDPPA Booth at Imaging USA
January 10, 2022 Collaborative Work Day: January 10, 2022

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Maryland Professional Photographers Association, Inc. is a 501(c)6 non-profit organization. PO Box 266, Simpsonville, MD, 21150

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