Grow Your Business Through Community (10/04/2026)

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT

Grow Your Business Through Community

with Julie Collins

Sponsored by Millers Lab

This will be a PPA merit class!

Date: Sunday, October 4
Time: 9:00-4:00pm
Location: TVF&R Station 39, 7080 SW McEwan Rd, Lake Oswego, OR 97035

Tired of running ads, feeding the social media machine and chasing leads? This workshop gives you the tools to easily make meaningful connections and bring significant money into your studio through relationship-building tactics. Julie brought $50k of additional revenue into her multi-six-figure studio in 2025 through the strategies she teaches in this workshop.

Takeaways:
Effective networking techniques
How to build community partnerships
Strategic charitable giving

Plus prizes from Millers Lab!

About Your Speaker:

Julie Collins

M.Photog, CPP

Julie Collins is an award-winning portrait photographer servicing Southeastern Wisconsin since 2012. Julie earned her Master of Photography Degree in 2020 and is a Certified Professional Photographer through Professional Photographers of America. Her studio specializes in wall art for the home and custom designed albums for families, newborns, pets, and seniors in high school. She also enjoys helping area businessmen and women represent themselves with excellence through professional headshots and business branding photographs. She lives in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin with her husband of 26 years and their four boys. In her free time she enjoys traveling, gardening, boating, and downhill skiing.

Demystifying Image Competition (10/15/2026)

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Demystifying Image Competition

With Lisa Dillon, CPP, M.Photog., DF-OR

Does Image Competition or Merit Image Review mystify you? Do you really understand how it all works? What *is* the difference between Competition and Merit Image Review anyway? And what happened to IPC? These are just a few of the questions I’ll be answering in my program. I’ll explain how the programs work and why you should care about them in the first place. I’ll also teach you how images are judged so you’ll be able to participate with confidence. I’ll teach you a new way to look at the framework PPA uses to evaluate images. I’ll teach you how to look at your images with a judge’s eye so you can select the best images for competition and image review and get you on your way to your degree and competition success!

Date: Thursday, October 15, 2026
Time: 3pm-530pm PDT

This workshop will be VIRTUAL.

About the Speaker:

Lisa Dillon

CPP, M.Photog., DF-OR

Lisa Dillon is a Master Craftsman Photographer and CPP from Portland Oregon. She is a Diamond Fellow of Photography in Oregon. She is in her 22st year of business and specializes in high school senior, executive headshots and family photography. She is a 3-time president of Oregon Professional Photographers of Oregon and past president of the Professional Photographers of Oregon as well as an approved PPA juror. In addition to judging, Lisa teaches classes on image competition and business. She also mentors young photographers. She is a mother and a grandmother and loves to travel the world. A long time competitor, Lisa uses Image Competition as a way to explore new ideas and build on personal projects.

Oregon Professional Photographers Association upcoming events

Grow Your Business Through Community (10/04/2026)

Demystifying Image Competition (10/15/2026)

Demystifying Image Competition

With Lisa Dillon, CPP, M.Photog., DF-OR