Local Photographer Elected as Central Regional Director of PAPA International
Las Vegas, NV, March 10, 2011- Sam Crimm, II owner of Middle Tennessee Aerial Photography of Tullahoma, TN, is proud to announce that he has been elected Central Regional Director of the Professional Aerial Photographers Association International (PAPA). The election took place during PAPA’s International Conference that took place March 10-12, 2011 in Las Vegas, NV.
PAPA International is a professional trade organization, comprised of aerial photographers throughout the world. PAPA’s purpose is that of an educational group, dedicated to the promotion of high business ethics, helping members to provide quality service and products through shared experience.
Sam Crimm earned the designation of Certified Aerial Photographer through PAPA International during the 2010 convention. Currently less than 100 aerial photographers world-wide have received this certification. This award reinforces the fact that Crimm has developed his proficiency to make his company competitive with the biggest and the best in the aerial imagery acquisition business.
Owner of Middle Tennessee Aerial Photography, Crimm has been a photographer for over 30 years and a pilot for over 40 years. Crimm is a commercial instrument rated pilot with over 5,000 hours of flight time. In July, 2010, Crimm was appointed by the Board of Mayor and Alderman to serve a five year term as Secretary of the Tullahoma Airport Authority.
Sam Crimm’s, Middle Tennessee Aerial Photography is located at 206 South Anderson St., Tullahoma, TN and specializes in the finest aerial photography services for the real estate, construction and architectural markets. The company services Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia.
For further information or questions, please contact:
Sam Crimm, II
samcrimm@distinctivephotography.net
Middle Tennessee Aerial Photography
206 S Anderson St, Tullahoma, TN 37388
931-580-9677
Helping My Mom
Jan 15
Having an up and down time with my mom, Charlene Crimm. She has develop atrial fibrillation and while she was at the local hospital, they got her feeling better, but treated for the really bad cold and then when she had a AF truly never followed up with the care she really needed. I have her in Centennial Hospital in the heart section and they are on top of things, I am feeling much better there than anything that happen at Harton.
We have her AF under control for now but she seems to be having these TI’s and they slowed her down a lot, and of course are always a set back kinda like three steps forward and one back. Now we just have to balance her blood and hope these TI go away! She will need some rehab and of course I want her back a work, doing what she does best!
New Years Resolution
Jan 10
My New Year Resolution is: to post more on my blog to keep my friends more up to date with what is going on with me and my photography.
With that being said I also have to be careful because of my Aerial competition, the ones close by don’t tell much and they sure have pumped me for questions and then one has screwed me on a job so my honesty with these guy has been lost, not telling them a thing and sure want have anything to do with the guy who burned me. Now the other people who I am not a threat too are so very helpful and wonderful to work with and so free to share there great information! Thank you for that!
Now for today’s happening SNOW we have SNOW and I am not talking an inch I am talking about 6 inches! How kool is that? So I have shoveled a path out and have time to work with my images and ideals that I have. I will share them in the future but I have to be careful. So I took some phone shots of the snow and that reminded me to remove thumbnails and some other images off the phone and now back at posting the images. So now that I have this posted I am moving on to adding more images to my phone.
Till next week
Local Photographer Earns Rare Certification in Aerial Photography
Houston, TX, March 3, 2010- Sam Crimm, owner of Middle Tennessee Aerial Photography of Tullahoma, TN, is proud to announce that he has earned the designation of Certified Aerial Photographer through the Professional Aerial Photographers Association International (PAPA).
The PAPA Aerial Photographers’ Certification course requires an extensive skill set specific to photography from an airplane or helicopter including advanced photographic expertise, knowledge of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and air traffic control rules and regulations and an essential awareness for flight safety.
“Currently less than 100 aerial photographers world-wide have received this certification,” said Pat Belanger, president of PAPA. “This award reinforces the fact that Sam Crimm has developed his proficiency to make his company competitive with the biggest and the best in the aerial imagery acquisition business.”
“I am honored to have received this designation from PAPA,” said Crimm. “It means a lot to have my experience and expertise earn this rare designation.”
The Aerial Photographers Certification course and testing took place during PAPA’s International Conference that took place March 3-6, 2010 in Houston, TX.
Sam Crimm’s, Middle Tennessee Aerial Photography is located at 206 South Anderson St Tullahoma, TN and specializes in the finest aerial photography services for the real estate, construction and architectural markets. The company services Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia.
PAPA International, the Professional Aerial Photographers’ Association, is a professional trade organization, comprised of aerial photographers throughout the world. PAPA’s purpose is that of an educational group, dedicated to the promotion of high business ethics, helping members to provide quality service and products through shared experience.
I was up in Manchester last night and went by the Vietnam Memorial Wall over at Westwood Junior High School. It had rained all day and was clear for the opening and the crowds.
Here is a panorama of the wall
Well I worked hard finding the right gas station and it was up in Liepers Fork and it as Netts County store.
I volunteered to take pictures of the family day up in Nashville and I had a great time. There was Penny Rawls and the Bruners on hand to shoot. They’re a great bunch of kids and they had plenty of volunteers and activities to do from a slide show from last years day to exercise (Hooprama put his on), and a great Scavenger hunt and young adults speaking ( Team Type 1) about there diabetes, The final of the day was the Nashville Zoo coming by with a couple of animals. A turtle, a blue parrot and a skunk. While the kids were busy learning there parents were busy learning from Doctors and other speakers about diabetes and the new research they were doing and what they had learned so far. It was a great day for everyone and I really enjoyed giving to Vanderbilt and look forward to next year Family Day!
Ideas
Oct 28
I have been thinking of how many ways to take a picture of a chair? I guess a couple of million, shapes, sizes, place,color, someone in it or not. I have thought so much about it that I have no clue. But I am going to focus on what I think is cool. And see what happens.
Here are a few ideas:
More to come.
I was invited to Grace Chapel in Leipers Fork for Sunday service. The church compared to Leipers Fork is so much more than I expected. It is one of the new generation types, I would guess there were somewhere around 600 to 800 people at the service. So as I sat there and listened to the music and the message they were singing, my thoughts took be back to when I was in my teen’s and visiting my Grandmother up in McMinnville, she lived 11 miles out highway 56. We would make the rounds and visit my cousin Tom Roach up Hills Creek. Tom was a farmer and one of the toughest men I have know. The day he died, he loaded 40 bales of hay on the wagon to feed his cows and he was around 75 then. He would take me Deer hunting in the hills around his house, he could out walk me and he was 50 years my senior. So during one of our visits a woman had passed in the community and so some of the men in the got together and hand dug the grave, well of course I wanted to see what that was all about, well as a teenager I ended up help digging a grave for the woman. Now I am sure it was a common thing many many years ago, but I am now 55 and I bet I could say that most people my age have never done that before. So then we attended the service of the woman and hymns along with the preaching from a very small country church combine that with the other small country churches I have attended in my life, I think I have gone the circle in how people worship god. They all the love him and they all care, but there are so many shapes, sizes, and delivery of the message it all still remains the same. They move the congregation in their own special way. Always delivering the message of God to them. The music that was played and sung in Grace Chapel was moving and you could feel it in the air and the congregation. There was a visiting preacher, and he delivered the message like most others.