Friday, February 7, 2014

From: Paint My Photo <mail@paintmyphoto.ning.com>

2/2/14
Many thanks to the huge number of members who took the time to look at Januarys entries for our pic of the month competition. Your great feedback and comments have been great to receive, we have a talented group of photographers and your support is very much appreciated.
The first placed entry was from Craig C Johnson, and the full results can be found following the link below.
Many thanks, and have a great weekend
regards
Gary
 
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1/23/14
Well Hello friends,
it has been some time since I sent out a message to all members with news and updates. I am hoping to do this on a Monthly basis.
We recently hit another milestone on PMP, we now have over 10K Members, and the growth continues. The challenge is to maintain the feel of the site. Many people have made real friends here in a supportive environment. Rest assured myself and the admin team are ‘on the same page’ where that is concerned. The PMP ‘difference ‘ is that we are completely independent. How the site develops is largely in the hands of members, in collaboration with the admin team. For example, groups still remain a major feature for many people, as do the challenges. Some of you may be wondering about the site upgrade that has been talked about. It will happen, but Ning (Our solution provider) perhaps jumped the gun when they announced it. The process to migrate from version 2 to version 3 is still being worked on. So I have no timescale for this as yet.
Going forward we will be featuring books and products made by members, either independently or in partnership with PMP. Many of you will know I recently published my own ebook ‘introduction to loose watercolor’ on Amazon for kindle. If you want to read more about my plans and ideas for ebooks, take a look at my article in Issue 8 of the PMP newsletter
 
Today I am delighted to introduce you to a new book on watercolor painting by Maria Balcells. It is entitled ‘Watercolor Drops’ and if you follow the link you can get a 30% discount that Maria has put in place, particularly for PMP members, for a time. Use the code JLNMQXE9O8. Also there are additional discount options for sharing Maria’s page. I highly recommend this book I am still referring to it myself, always so much to learn from each other!
It just remains for me to wish you all a happy, and creative, New Year.
Roy Simmons
 PMP owner/founder.