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Seminar, Lecture & Adventure Workshop Rules
"Don't
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PRICE: Dinner & Lecture
$43.00 Subscribers for on-time reservations (includes
tax & tip). ($47.00 cash only, for
pre-confirmed late reservations, - see below for more information.) Non-Subscribers
$57.00, Non-Subscribers Late $63. - Pre-Confirmed Late Reservations.
(NOTE: All Workshops & Special Events
are individually priced and thus have
special details and rules. You must telephone and speak with someone in order to
attend. No exceptions.)
Masters of Imaging, Invites you to our monthly dinner lecture. Masters of Imaging events are open to everyone, especially people with an interest of photography. Photographers and Filmmakers who attend include: beginners, amateurs and professionals. The following list of rules are a result of years (10) of experience; following them makes for a extremely enjoyable experience, and achieves a professional result. Reservations and payment are required (5 days) prior to the event.
Less than 5 days prior to the event is Late.
ON-TIME RESERVATIONS: Reservations
for all events will only be accepted by telephone 626.692.8987 in
Los Angeles and/or 949.338.7885 in Orange County.
You must speak to someone in our office to obtain a reservation.
(Internet E-mail Reservations are not accepted.)
Checks must be postmarked by FIVE DAYS PRIOR to the event to be an on-time reservation. Make checks payable to: Masters Of Imaging, P.O. Box
93723 Pasadena, Ca. 91109 Tel: 626.692.8987. Your check, should be sent in by the postmarked deadline with your E-mail address and telephone number, and meal selection. This is your confirmation (however, if you notice that your check has not been cashed or you have not received an E-mail reply - THREE DAYS PRIOR TO THE DINNER, you may call the office to inquire as to whether you are on the confirmed reservations list). You are responsible for verifying reservations. You must list your contact phone number and the names of all guests who are paid for on your check. Paid reservations are non-refundable but are transferable to someone else only on the date paid for. No-shows cannot be rolled-over.
THIRD PARTY OR OUT OF STATE CHECKS: Will Not Be
Accepted from first time attendees. Out of state attendees must send a Bank check. If you are sending us a company check, please indicate for whom the reservation is to be made. If your check
has more than one name printed on the check, please indicate for whom the reservation is to be made. In
effect, always tell us in whose name the reservation is to be made when you send in your check, including any
stage name that you or your guests use, an E-mail address and a telephone
number.
LATE RESERVATIONS: Subscribers if you mail your check any time after the postmark deadline, it will be considered a
late reservation, and that check should reflect a fee of $47.00. Less
than 5 days prior to the event is Late.
CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS:
Payments made by check or PayPal save a
$1.50 service. fee.
PRE-CONFIRMED LATE RESERVATIONS LIST: As a courtesy to people who wish to attend the Dinner but for whom it is too late to mail a check, we have a good faith Pre-confirmed Late Reservations List. Even with a late check we have a good faith Pre-confirmed Late Reservation. Less than 5 days prior to the event is Late. To get on the pre-confirmed late reservations list, you must talk to someone in the office to make arrangements to be put on that list, as there are guidelines. Pre-confirmed late reservations extend the final count and are included in the final extended count given to the venue and therefore, are considered firm commitments by you. Subscribers price for pre-confirmed late reservations is $47.00 - cash only. If you do not mail your check it will be $47.00 - cash only. Once again, less than 5 days prior to the event constitutes late.
WORD OF ADVICE: Please do not make a pre-confirmed late reservation for
anyone for whom you will not
be paying for. Especially, If you will not be financially responsible for payment
have the person(s) call in
reservations themselves. If we honor your good faith request, and make a reservation
and you
do not honor it or make good on it,
you will not be allowed back into the Dinner. (This can
also result in the forfeiture of your Masters of Imaging subscription.)
REFUNDS: The Restaurant and Hotel does not have a refund or roll-over policy for
no shows for this event. This is why no-shows cannot be rolled-over to another
Dinner. This is why reservations are not refundable. If we give a count of 150 the venue expects to be paid for a total of 150 people whether 2 people or 150
people show up. When we make a commitment to the venue, we make it based on your commitment to us. The
term is: "Professional Code of Conduct."
WALK-INS: You
must talk to someone in the office to
pre-confirm your late
reservation. Event walk-in's are not permitted. This is disruptive to check
in personnel, disrespectful to our guest speaker, disconcerting to the chef, and
discourteous to the responsible subscribers.
BOUNCED OR RETURNED CHECKS: When you bounce a check, we not only incur bank charges, we have to
pay for your Dinner. Effective immediately, there will be a
$35 charge
for all bounced or returned checks. If you
bounce a check to the Dinner you will be required to pay by money order (by mail), or cash only at the door,
only after having your reservation approved.
PLEASE NOTE: If we receive a returned check from you, and you do not make good on the check plus the
charges;
you will not be allowed back into the Dinner.
If we honor your good faith request, and make a reservation, or a late
reservation and you
do not honor it or make good on it,
you will not be allowed back into the Dinner. (This can
also result in the forfeiture of your Masters Of Imaging subscription.)
E-MAIL NOTIFICATIONS: In an effort to help you get your checks in on time, we will be sending you an
E-mail of
the current months Dinner information, and a reminder E-mail, to give you ample notice and time to meet
the postmarked deadline. All E-mail
notices are a subscription privilege, not a subscription right.
It is the sole responsibility for each associate to keep a
current updated E-mail address on file with the webmaster.
MastersOfImaging@
You may send requests to be put on the E-mail list to: MastersOfImaging@
Gmail.com - include your name, mailing address, phone, E-mail, and company and/or profession. We do not immediately review any of the E-mails that come in. Anything concerning attending a current event, lecture, workshop or dinner must go through the office (626) 372.6090. This is very important to note.CELL PHONES & PAGERS: In order to be respectful to others in attendance and the Guest Speaker all Cell Phones and Pagers should be placed in the vibrate mode. If one has the need to answer, or respond to the call, please exit the room prior to responding to the caller.
NETWORKING: Just a tip. It is great that you come to the
dinner to hear and make contact with the guest speaker, however, you should also
think of attending because of the people whom a particular speaker might
attract, whether the speaker is in your field of interest or not.
PRINTS & SLIDES SHARING: Unless Special Instruction are given in a confirmation for an event, prints must be in a portfolio. Absolutely NO loose prints. You may bring up to ten (10) of your best slides. All slides and portfolios should be clearly labeled with your name. (It is your responsibility to protect your images should you bring samples to an event.) Framed prints, or prints which are mounted but not framed, as well as oversized images must be pre-approved prior to anyone bringing these items to an event. A limit on these type of displays will be imposed due to the available space.
DIGITAL IMAGES: You may bring a laptop computer using an image presentation program to place on one of the viewing tables. (Electric plugs are available should your batteries fail.) During the Guest Speakers presentation laptops screens will be closed so not to be a distraction.
GUEST SPEAKERS: Guest Speakers attendance (speakers schedules permitting) is confirmed at the time of publication of our promotional material and E-mail notification. In the event, a speaker is unable to appear (due to an unforeseen / unavoidable scheduling conflict or emergency), it is understood that we reserve the right to provide a substitute speaker of equal caliber in keeping with our established standards. In such a situation, the venue has a no refund and no roll-over policy for all reservations. We will attempt to provide advance notification of the substitution whenever possible.
GENERAL: We provide you with great speakers, contacts, detailed newsletters,
a professional website of the current guest speaker along with a gallery of
preview images, e-mail reminders, free events, raffle prizes at the dinner
events as well as special discounts at camera stores, laboratories and camera
rental locations. That takes up a lot of our time, as it is not an easy job
making sure you have a speaker every month and one of a certain caliber at that!
We have done that consistently for 10 years, by adhering to our policies/guidelines. We know that you appreciate
our effort.
We thank you once again for your cooperation, we want this to be an enjoyable
experience for everyone. We thank you for attending and for telling your friends
about the events. Please pass this information onto anyone whom you invite to
the networking dinner lecture.
50% POLICY FOR ACCOMPANYING SPOUSE OR PARENT IN A WORKSHOP: A non-photographer parent or spouse may accompany a paying student at 50% of the fee for the class and as long as all costs associated with the workshop (i.e. Travel, Hotel, Food are paid for by the additional individual.) NOTE: At any time, for any reason should that accompanying individual operate a camera 100% of the fees for the workshop become due. The commitment we have with the instructors requires us to pay them per-person. It is not fair to our trained expert who is teaching the class to be burdened with additional concerns, responsibilities and not be compensated.
POLICY FOR TRAVEL WORKSHOPS: If you cancel 60 days or more prior to the start of a travel workshop, we will retain a $50 application fee. If you cancel 45-60 days prior to the start of a travel workshop, we will retain a $250 cancellation fee. Cancellation 20-45 days or less from the start of a travel workshop, we will retain a $500 deposit. If you must cancel 30 days or less prior to the start of a travel workshop we will retain 50 percent of your workshop fee. No refund once workshop begins. If a workshop is canceled due to low enrollment, all fees and deposits will be refunded in full or you can transfer your deposit to another workshop within the year.
COURSE CANCELLATION: On occasion we may cancel a class, lecture, workshop, event or activity due to low enrollment and/or unforeseen professional conflict on the part of the guest speaker or instructor. Should this be the case, all monies will be refunded in full. We do not take responsibility for non-refundable airline tickets, so please buy a refundable ticket if you are attending from outside of Los Angeles.
DEPOSIT: A 35% percent deposit of the applicable workshop fee is required to reserve your place in the class. All partial payments and or deposits must be pre-approved.
PAYMENT: Payment is full is due no later than (14 days) two weeks prior to any workshop start date.
LOCAL WORKSHOP REFUND POLICY: Enrollment is limited, therefore your commitment is important to us. If you must withdraw from a workshop, we provide this refund policy: A $35 administrative fee will be charged on all cancellations. Cancellations within 48 hours of workshop start date will be charged an additional 50% percent (of total workshop fee), unless we are able to fill your spot. No refunds once class begins. All applications involve a $35 administrative fee.
Masters Of Imaging dinner(s), lecture(s), and workshop(s)
are "private events." We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. All
applications involving Masters Of Imaging workshops, lectures, dinners, expos,
events, subscriptions and renewals are subject to review. Violation of a
Professional Code of Conduct i.e.: rules or instructions from a staff associate
at a Masters Of Imaging event can result in the forfeiture of your subscribers
and non-subscribers not being permitted back. Complaints about
subscribers, non-subscribers and
guests regarding conduct will be taken seriously.
Masters
Of Imaging
Post Office Box 93723, Pasadena, Ca. 91109
626.692.8987
Los Angeles
When
telephoning from outside the Los Angeles Area, and you reach our message
service you must have an E-mail address for a response.
Fax: No unsolicited faxes