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Rather than go through all the effort of making another music video, we decided to let Alie perform live at the awards luncheon. It seems that she survived:

Our featured speaker on Tuesday was Donald Miralle. He shared with us a presentation called "Seeing The Same Thing Differently" during which he shared his creative approach to photographing assignments with the goal of always coming away with unique shots.

At the closing banquet Glenn Carpenter announced the winners in the 2011 UPAA Multimedia Competition. It was a great group of entries this year, the winners are:

Honorable Mention - "Feats of Strength" by Mike Ekern, University of St. Thomas

3rd Place - "Jump, Jive an' Wail" by Brigham Young University

Baylor University Move-In 2010 from Baylor Photography on Vimeo.

2nd Place - "Inside the Box" by Robbie Rogers and Matthew Minnard/Baylor University

and the winner is:

1st Place - "Burn Camp 2010" by Dot Paul/University of Georgia

Congratulations to all the winners!

Nikon sponsored the shootout at "This is the Place" state park during the 2011 Symposium. This year there were two competitions, the point and shoot competition shot with Nikon s8100's and the SLR competition. Mark Kettenhofen, our excellent Nikon representative, gave us the theme of "Cooperation".  Check out the entries and winners:

For winning the Point and Shoot competition, Michelle Kelly of Boise State University won a Nikon s8100. Robert Jordan of the University of Mississippi won a Nikon 5100 SLR camera for taking the SLR competition. Thanks to Nikon and Mark Kettenhofen for sponsoring the competition!

The alarms went off early Friday morning and we gathered to drive into Bryce Canyon for a sunrise shoot. We were treated to a nice cool morning and a perfect sunrise.

After the shoot, we gathered to hear Doug Levere's presentation on using Smugmug for Digital Asset Management. Then we had a panel discussion on the future of our profession, covering a variety of topics including data preservation, Chargeback vs Funded operations, video production and advances in camera technology. It was a great discussion that highlighted the importance of our counseling together every year.

We had a great week in Utah with all the UPAA members. At our banquet we announced the winners in the Annual Print Competition. Check out the photos in the PDF below:

Print Competition PDF

Congrats to all the winners!

We just finished up with the awards presentations at the 2011 Symposium. Here is a pdf of the winners in the Publications Competition:

Publications Winners PDF

Congrats to all the Winners!

We spent the day on Thursday with Robert Seale. Robert is an incredible teacher and he shared a lot of valuable insight as he walked us step by step through some of his favorite shoots. After the morning session, we packed up and drove south to Red Canyon, which is just a few miles outside of Bryce Canyon. There on the side of the highway we did a live shoot with a BYU dancer who was kind enough to travel to Bryce to pose for us. Check out the video below:

It was quite a sight to see 70 photographers follow Robert as he trekked through the canyon finding new photos. We also demonstrated the Eye-Fi Pro X2 Card in action, sending the photos that Robert took to an iPad for instant preview. It was great to be able to show the group all the photos that Robert took a few seconds after the fact.

We were lucky enough to have Andrew Fingerman of Photoshelter join us on Tuesday afternoon and speak about social media. Andrew wrote a PDF called Social Media for Photographers that is a great resource to get you started on your social media plan, click here to download it. Check out the video of his presentation below:

Allie Fidel + Billy Joel - Backup Singers =

Wednesday was a field trip to This is the Place park in Salt Lake City for the Nikon Shoot-out in a Mormon pioneer town. The theme was "Cooperation" and we still really don't know what that means.

Check out the entries and the winners in the Nikon Shootout in this video:

After lunch we went to see Art Wolfe present "Between Heaven and Earth". It was an amazing presentation that inspired us to be better photographers. Many of us got to meet Art and chat with him for a bit, and He was great. Lets just say that many books were bought and autographed.

Alison Fidel goes country in Wednesday's Wake-Up Call:

Tuesday was a crazy day in Provo filled with great speakers, lots of food and even more speakers. Here are a few highlights.

After a welcome from BYU's own Carri Jenkins, Ron McMillan gave us some great tips on how to improve our overall communication, especially in emotionally charged situations. Then we went upstairs to judge the print competition which was a great showcase of the work of our members. After Lunch, BYU's Dave Broberg gave us some tips on how to improve the relationship between designer and photographer by making is a partnership. You can see Dave's lecture below:

You can also download the powerpoint from his presentation Here.

BYU's Dave Broberg shares tips on how photographers can improve their collaboration with graphic designers.

Dave was kind enough to share his presentation with us, you can download it here.

We wanted to do something different to announce the Symposium schedule for Tuesday:

Thanks to BYU Photo's Alison Fidel and her possee of Jonathan Hardy and Ryan Faulkner for making this .  .  .  .  thing.