Rick Billings
Master Photographer - Photographic Craftsman; professional studio photographer since 1980.

With over 50,000 photography sessions in my career, I have been creating memories and satisfied clients for over 27 years!

In May 1997, I formed the getDigital Training Center, a subsidiary of Billings Photography. Photographers from all over the world attended a week long seminar on transitioning their portrait studio into the digital world. Kodak has stated that “Rick Billings is one of the photographic industry’s foremost authorities on digital imaging.” Since 1995, I have been a member of a select group of professional photographers who serve on Kodak’s Digital Professional Photography Mentor Team. Over the past 10 years, I have spoke and lectured in over thirty-five states on behalf of industry trade associations and companies such as Eastman Kodak, Art Leather Albums and Canon USA. In 2003, Canon selected 11 photographers throughout the United States to be featured on a CD about “Digital Workflow” and I was one of those 11 photographers. Canon has distributed a quarter million of these digital workflow CD’s in our profession.

My highly regarded position in the field of digital photography, was evident in the fall of 2000 at the United Nations Millennium Summit. I was asked by Kodak to digitally photograph 189 heads of state of UN member countries including President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister, Tony Blair. A digital image was transmitted electronically within minutes after the shoot to news organizations throughout the world. The group photo appeared in full color on the front page of the New York Times the next morning.

I reside in Southwest Orlando, with my wife and three boys.

 

 

 


United Nations Millennium Summit, September 2000, New York City
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Kodak Gallery Award - 1985, 1987 & 1988

Kodak introducted the Gallery Awards in 1985 as a way to honor and promote the importance and value of excellence in professional photography.
PPA National Award - April 2001

The highest honor granted by a Professional Photographers of America Affiliate, it recognizes those whose support for photography goes far beyond any regular expectations or contributions. The simple inscription on the plaque reads "for service to professional photography".

Kodak Approved Speaker - Since 1995

See this link to Kodak.com


Member of:

The Professional Photographers of American, Inc.

Wedding & Portrait Photographers International.

   

OTHER BUSINESS INTEREST:

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