Welcome
We are proud to welcome you to our website. The South Florida Chapter gathers the most diverse group of photographers in the US in many and varied specialties, from Advertising to Editorial, Sports, Aerial, Underwater, Events, Architecture, Photojournalism, Food, Travel, Fashion, Beauty, Fine Art and all related areas of the High End Lifestyle that is reshaping our market. An all-year great weather, fantastic locations, great Model and Talent agencies, easy national and international access, and our amazing group of photographers, makes it an ideal choice for your local, national and international campaigns, and we are here to help!
Visit ASMP South Florida on Myspace and Blogspot
As an addition to FIND A PHOTOGRAPHER ASMP South Florida is promoting our group on the web as The Resource For Photography in South Florida. We have created a ASMP on Myspace page to meet our Members in the cyber world. In the Blogosphere visit us at the ASMP SF Blog. CLICK HERE TO BLOG and add your comments and photos. Or you can VISIT THE CHAPTER ARCHIVE to see some of our work.
Member Benefit
ASMP MembersMany of you have met Conny at out last meeting. She is intent on getting us work and attention for our membership. To that end, she is offering us a banner on their site that will link to ours and our Find a Photographer along with the Light of Florida. Their initial launch is SOON......She is also offering us a great discount and full support for those who wish to take advantage...so act soon on this and make this coming year a successful one!
PRODUCTION PARADISE
Production Paradise is an international directory and showcase for the Visual Media Industry highlighting over 36 main locations with over 6,000,000 queries a month from more than 180 countries around the world. It also has a subscriber base of currently 66.900 subscribers to our newsletters (Showcase Magazine and Spotlight Magazine) AND 15.000 members.
Light of Florida Update
ASMP MembersLight of Florida update:
Our talks with the Florida Film Society continued this Monday as Jorge Parra,Paul Morris and myself met to continue discussions on sponsorship. Recent budget cuts from the State have placed a temporary hold on our publication despite the interest and excitement our images have created in Tallahassee.
In July, a new state sponsor will review our project, and together with the Film Society, might consider partnering to produce the type of book with the quality we are all expecting. Several ideas were discussed including a "teaser" version but It was agreed that going halfway was not in our best interests and would not do justice to anyone.
In the meantime, we are pursuing to launch an email quarterly promotion, showing images from LOF that will feature their creators sporting a brief write up from each. It will point to a Light of Florida site, that will show one image from each participant and will link that image to each respective website. Also featured will be our own Find a Photographer . This email campaign will be part of our Find us Here program, something we all need in this time.
Light of Judges
ASMP MembersASMP South Florida wishes to thank our wonderful judges for the Light of Florida book project.
PETER W. CROSS
Pete Cross is an Assistant Managing Editor for photography at the Palm Beach Post. Pete began his career as a staff photographer for The Miami Herald in 1980. In 1986 he was promoted to the Chief Photographers' position at the Broward County operation for the Herald which included covering civil and criminal courts. The Palm Beach Post hired him in 1990 as Director of Photography. For the first time, in 1992, The Post earned Best Use Of Pictures from the University of Missouri's Pictures Of the Year competition (the Post has since earned the honor in 1996 and 2005).
The Post's photography staff are two-time Pulitzer finalists in Breaking News Photography -- first in 1993 for their coverage of Hurricane Andrew then in 2005 for their coverage of all four major storms that ravaged Florida in 2004. Also from 1996, they captured the Angus McDougall award for overall excellence in editing from the