Professional Photographers of the Wine Country - PPWC

11/17/2025

Our BIG November image competition is this Tuesday.
One great thing about the new website we use is that you can upload your images, even if you’re still tweaking them, then swap out the finished image the day of competition (before the deadline).

We’re looking forward to seeing your art this Tuesday!

04/17/2025

Send a big 🙌 🙌 🙌 to Phil Lewenthal for winning Image of the Month in our Spring Image Competition! This image titled "Monument" won the highest score of the night with a 89. Congrats Phil! Many thanks to our sponsor Bay Photo Lab for generously donating a 20x30 Metal Print to this month's winner!

08/12/2024

Hello Photographers!

Our August meeting is scheduled for next week, Tuesday, August 20th! We're excited to see you IN PERSON for dinner at 5:00, at Hopmonk, and then for our presentation at 6:30 at our regular meeting location, Community Church of Sebastopol.

Our meeting speaker and topic has shifted a bit. Read all the details below and prepare for an incredible evening!

It really has been a little while since seeing all your lovely faces! I can't wait to have a little social evening with my friends!

See you soon!

Norah Burrows

07/26/2024

In August PPWC welcomes Brady Thomas, M. Photog. to Sebastopol.

Do you struggle to name your images for print competition or submission for publication? Do you feel like everything you come up with is repetitive, boring, or just doesn’t feel right?

Join Brady Thomas, M.Photog. for an evening conversation to create great names for your images. She’ll discuss why a compelling title for your image is so important, and share her 10-3-2-1 system, including pitfalls, tips and tricks, and resources.

05/08/2024

The Gold Rush Image Competition is coming up soon! Read all about it here:

SPECIAL IMAGE COMPETITION EVENT! The Gold Rush Image CompetitionJoin three Northern California Professional Photographer groups, Wine Country, Santa Sonoma County, CA

03/25/2024

Join PPWC in a very special night featuring Jim Codington: Veterinarian, Wildlife Conversationalist, Adventurer, and PHOTOGRAPHER! PPWC/PPSV/PPSCV members are free and we welcome community members with a guest pass for a $20 donation. Proceeds will be donated to the wildlife fund of Jim's choice. More details to follow. Guest passes are available here: https://www.ppwc-online.org/online-registrations/membership/guest-pass-jim-codington

03/15/2024

PPWC Is offering a Scholarship + $300 travel expenses bonus to WEST COAST SCHOOL 2024! (Must be a PPWC Member to apply)

You have just one week to apply. Do it now! Click the link for full info. Reply to this post with any questions and tag Karna.

West Coast School
June 9-14, 2024
Hyatt Regency, Valencia, CA
https://www.ppwc-online.org/scholarship

Thank you to Michael Collins for making the $300 bonus possible by donating proceeds from his February 7th Photoshop Class back to us. THANK YOU MICHAEL! Please subscribe to his YouTube channel if you haven't already done so. It really helps. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIB8-p2ERho7zRlM4ctAgcg/videos?view_as=subscriber

01/22/2024

Join us in welcoming Michael Collins to the Wine Country for his HANDS-ON Photoshop Classes!
February 6 & 7

February 6th: (Our evening meeting)
is Free to members and $45 for guests

February 7th: (A Full-Day PPA Merited Course!)
is $99 for members and $125 for guests

More Information and Registration Here: https://www.ppwc-online.org/blog/february-speaker-michael-collins

10/23/2023

See you Tomorrow (Oct 24th) for the October Meeting: Lightroom Masking & More

ALL THE INFO & LINKS can be found here: https://madmimi.com/p/bbaea71?pact=26117-176757744-3982196961-bdbf18d893ce21b0a016fef71947ab716ea9cf4e

We have a very informative presentation on Lightroom coming up in October with Kimberly Olker, M.Photog. M.Wed.Photog. Cr, CPP.

Lightroom's updated features have helped Kimberly take her editing in Lightroom to a whole new level... it's faster, simpler, and requires her to rarely use Photoshop for event photography anymore. Let Kimberly show you how to use these new features to enhance your Lightroom editing process, making it fast, simple & much more enjoyable.

Date + Details:
Tuesday, October 24th at 6:30pm
Thank you to ACI Lab for being our sponsor!

This event will be LIVE IN PERSON at our Sebastopol location:
The Community Church of Sebastopol
meet in the MEDIA ROOM, off the quad near the fountain
1000 Gravenstein Hwy N
Sebastopol, CA 95472

At this time we are not recording this presentation or offering a hybrid experience. If you feel passionate about this please take the lead on being the hybrid king or queen.

Happy Hour at Sebastopol's Hopmonk from 5:00-6:00
230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Join us in the Tavern, order at the bar and join us.
Please depart Hopmonk by 6:15 ... thank you!

As always, our events are open to PPWC, PPSV, and PPSCV members. Guest Passes are available for $35.