It’s been twenty years since I was a member of the Professional Photographers of America (PPA). My membership was from about 1995 to about 2005, I believe. I left the group because my main job assignments wasn’t what PPA was all about. Law enforcement and PPA just don’t mix. PPA wasn’t about law enforcement photographers.
When I wasn’t working as a law enforcement photographer, I was working on the side as a wedding and portrait photographer with a bit of theater photography thrown in. But when my primary job took more of my time, I could not plan for non-government photography assignments, it just wasn’t beneficial to me.
Living in Northern Virginia outside of Washington, D.C. has been good to me with a large amount of photography assignments. Since I recently retired with thirty-nine years of government service, it was time for me to start the next chapter of my photography career. I rejoined the PPA and hired a business coach. My first step outside of developing my business is to get my CPP status back and on May 3rd I just did that.
