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The Backgrounder e-Magazine Archives
For several years now, Virtual Backgrounds has published a special electronic “e” magazine which comes out monthly. It is titled The Backgrounder and although it presents news and tips mostly about the background and how to use it to make more profit, it also includes other timely information of interest to all photographers. You can click on any past issue and look through the articles and photographs. There is much to learn and much to see. Too many professional photographers think that all that needs to be known about backgrounds can be covered on a page or two. How wrong they are! The background is a very powerful component of a photograph. It should not be wasted. While a few of the articles are date sensitive, most articles and photographs are timeless. Take some time to learn more about how you can grow your studio and have more fun by using virtual backgrounds.
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May 2010 The Ace in the Hole for Professional Photographers The VB No Spin Zone VB Slide Cabinet Holds over 600 Backgrounds! How the Scene Machine can Generate Amazing High Key Images Craig Weiglein Share Some New VB Images	June 2010 New! Seven Piece Poser System: A Tool that Every Photographer Needs Changing Trends in Backgrounds: VB has the Answer! Learn How to Get into School Photography: Earn up to $1,000 an Hour! Richard Sturdevant Does it Again: Another Print Score of 100! Does Cheap Coincide with Professional What Counts is the Experience and the Product	July 2010 What Does the Future Hold? We'll Expose Ourselves to You! Big Problems Require Big Thinking! New Format for August VB Workshop It's All About the Experience Featured Photographer: Melanie Hall	August 2010 Photographers Declare War VB Offers Layaway Finance Program! VB Joins with Pounds Photo Lab: New Workshop Format Emphasizes Marketing! Time to Schedule Your Tell Us What You Want Meeting Let Us Help You
January 2010 What's Newfor 2010 Portrait Art Collages: New Money Making Concept - Learn About It VB Used to Photograph Degree Recepients at Imaging USA Simones to Teach Five Day Workshop in Montreal How It Was Created Featured Photographer: Craig Weiglein	February 2010 Opportunities Open Up for Independent Photographers A Sneak Peek at VB Workshops Trevon Baker Earns Masters Degree and Moves into Beautiful New Studio! Some Photographers are also Career Students Featured Photographer: Allen Johnson - Thinking Outside the Box	March 2010 What Photographers can Learn from Buck-ee's Highway Stop Diane Wilson Enchanted & Theme Workshops - New Format - Lower Price Save $$$ - Ask About our Refurbished VB Systems Lori Lens is Gets Priceless Advertising that is Bringing in Unbelievable Results Don Hileman Creates Amazing High Key Images with His Scene Machine	April 2010 What You Can Learn from a Pancake House The New York Times Writes about the Plight of Professional Photographers Monostand and Elliptical Softbox Available from Virtual Backgrounds When is a Scene Machine a Bad Investment? The Biggest Losers: Professional Wedding Photographers
December 2009 Photographers Turn Christmas Magic into Big Dollars Can You Honestly Call Yourself a Professional? Diane Wilson to Teach Children's Theme and Enchanted Photography Course Featured Photographer: Lori "Lens" DeRouen	November 2009 . Richard Sturdevant Scores Big! November VB Workshop Maxed Out VB Classroom Gets New Upgrade What We Learned from a Local High School Group Surprise Visit wiht UK Photograher Stanley Burgin	October 2009 Warehouse Sale Continues VB Gets Accolades from Three Southwestern PP Convention Speakers Basil & Margaret Pecknyo to Receive Award at SPI Show in January When a Door Shuts, Find a Window Some Advice on Capturing Your Own Backgrounds	September 2009 Our Biggest Warehouse Clearance Sale Ever! Henry Oles Featured in Texas Professional Photographer Magazine One Thousand Dollars or More Per Hour - Can This be True? Featured Photographer: Richard Strudevant

August 2009 Get the Equipment You Need to Fight the Storm! The Importance of Being Unique Featured Photographer: Cindy Cofer	July 2009 Creating Your Own Custom Backgrounds How to Get People in Front of the Camera During Football Season Featured Photographer: Shauna Gustavson	June 2009 Ten Great Reasons to Use VB Hunkering Down Can Be Fatal VB Economic Stimulus Recovery Package for Professional Photographers Warning: The Picateers are Coming! Featured Photographer: Paul Wingler	May 2009 $ Make $ Money $ Now $ Enchanted Photography Workshop Texas School - Bigger and Better Than Ever Yes We Can! Roy Stockard - From Flying 777s to Photographing Fairies

April 2009 Seeing is Believing - Check Out These You Tube Videos to See Hundreds of Images First Place Print Competition Winner:Elma Flores Taco Cabana Test Kitchen Diane Wilson Class - Reserve for June Featured Photographer: Winifred Whitfield	March 2009 VB Print Competition Winners Announced! Helping Others - The Way it Should Be! Take a Look! Seeing is Believing! Next VB Workshop - April 20-22, 2009 Joseph and Louise Simone Five-Day Workshops	February 2009 WPPI - A Huge Success! PPA Sample Image Video Dates Set for Diane Wilson Fantasy and Theme Workshops If Virtual Backgrounds is so Great Why Isn't Everyone Using It? Featured Photographers: Richard and Patty Rives	January 2009 2009 PPA Imaging USA Portraits Three Steps to New Profits in 2009 VB Print Competition Update: Deadline Extended to January 31, 2009 Virtual Backgrounds Begins the Newly Formatted 2009 Workshops Featured Photographer: Bonnie St. Pierre

December 2008 Season's Greetings from Virtual Backgrounds! The Calendar Project: 2009 Free Theme Photography Calendar VB Print Competition Update: Over $5,000 in Combined Prizes for the Top Three Winners! A Great Way to Promote the Studio 2008 Featured Photographers: The Year in Review	November 2008 Week-long Simone Workshop at VB: A Huge Success! VB Print Competition Update: Photo Contest Gets even MORE Prizes! Reflective Material for Your Props It's Not Too Late to Get Money Back from the IRS Featured Photographer: Esso Nordhoff III	October 2008 VB Print Competition - A Competition! Where Everyone Wins! IRS Section 179. What is It? How Can It Put Thousands of Dollars in Your Pocket? Take a Closer Look - You'll Be Pleasantly Surprised! What Photokina Means to You Featured Photographers: Brian and Debbie White	September 2008 Dream! Dare! Do! ` Get a Big Tax Refund and a VB Systems for Only $199 Down You are What You Expect to Be The Power of Positive Thinking New Product - Super Quick Set-up for Location Work Featured Photographer: Elma Flores - She Dreamed! She Dared! She Did!



August 2008 A Big Problem; A Powerful Solution ` Joseph & Louise Simone Shoot New Instructional DVD at VB Rick & Deborah Ferro Workshop - Only a Few Seats Left Photokina - The World's Fair of Photography Featured Photographer: UK Photographer, Stanley Burgin	July 2008 How Virtual Backgrounds Can Work for You ` Rick and Deborah Ferro Workshop Scheduled in September 2008 National Ad for Photogenic Features Simone Image Captured Using the Scene Machine Diane Wilson Hits a Home Run Her First Time at Bat! Featured Photographers: John and Teresa Chandler	June 2008 Super Powerful Marketing Tool Virtual Backgrounds Installation Video Now Available Unlimited Technical Support Whoever Heard of That? Learn and Earn Workshops Present Diane Wilson - Making Money with Fantasy Themed Portraits Featured Photographers: Joseph and Louise Simone	May 2008 Need a Jump Start? We've Got One for You! Texas School - A Barn Burner The Perfect Storm Intensifies- An Advisory Update Trevon Baker Scheduled to Teach June 16-17 Workshop at VB A Message to Virtual Backgrounds Systems Owners Featured Photographer: Trevon Baker - 24 Shots, 11 Backgrounds, 20 Minutes

April 2008 Virtual Backgrounds Sponsoring Rick and Deborah Ferro's 21 City Tour WPPI - Bigger Than Ever with more than 12,000 Attendees PMA Convention and Trade Show - Auto-Everything Tools for Amateurs Joseph and Louise Simone will Schedule a 5-day class at VB in the Fall! Featured Photographer: Lora Yeater - A Bright Light Shining Amidst the Storm!	March 2008 The March Simone Workshop - Beyond Indescribable Candid Comments from Workshop Participants The Colorado Workshops - A Really Special School Owning a Virtual Backgrounds System Can Equal Money in the Bank Featured Photographer: Rainy Chastine - A Bundle of Creative Energy!	February 2008 PMA Trade Show - A Rousing Success! Simone Workshop in March VB will Play Host to Special Consultants at WPPI in Las Vegas How VB Can Help to Secure Previously Off-Limits Contracts Rick and Deborah Ferro Tour is Taking Shape Featured Photographer: Walter Austin	January 2008 Imaging USA in Tampa - A Huge Success! Virtual Backgrounds to Sponsor Business and Marketing Programs by Greg Stangl Simone Workshop in March - Only a Few Seats are Available Virtual Backgrounds Monthly Workshops Look for Virtual Backgrounds at PMA and WPPI in Las Vegas Featured Photographer: Don Hileman

December 2007 Virtual Backgrounds Sponsoring Rick and Deborah Ferro's 21 City Tour WPPI - Bigger Than Ever with more than 12,000 Attendees PMA Convention and Trade Show - Auto-Everything Tools for Amateurs Joseph and Louise Simone will Schedule a 5-day class at VB in the Fall! Featured Photographer: Lora Yeater - A Bright Light Shining Amidst the Storm!	November 2007 Richard Sturdevant's First Images! There HAS to be a Better Way! It's that Time Again! Turn the Holidays into New Profits Warehouse Overstock Sale Half Price Sale on Selected Backgrounds Featured Photographers Horacio and Nunila Domenguez	October 2007 Virtual Backgrounds Plays a Key Role at the Texas PPA Fall Seminar Flea Market Enchanted Photographer Diane Wilson Gives First Program Losing Your Shirt on Wedding Candids? Wedding Profits are Still There Chris Wunder Coming to Texas This December - Don't Miss It! Special Financing Plan - A Big Hit! Rick Harding Tells His Secrets	September 2007 Get a VB system for Only $199 and Get a Huge Tax Refund! What's New at VB? The Florida PPA Convention - A Busy, Busy Show! Deborah and Rick Ferro Offer Unique Children's Clothing Rick Harding, The Prom King, Featured Speaker at VB Workshops Jessica Laredo - The Making of a Photographic Artist



August 2007 Virtual Backgrounds Revisits Past Issues of The Backgrounder How Cindy Cofer Promotes her Scene Machine With the Use of Hot Lights Old Becomes New Again The Simones Educate Korean Professional Photographers The Perfect Storm - A Double Whammy for Lab Owners Virtual Backgrounds will be a Large Part of the Upcoming TPPA Fall Seminar Featured Photographer Rick Avalos is Riding the Storm	July 2007 Virtual Backgrounds Learn and Earn Program Turning Your Workshop into a Mini-Vacation What You Should Expect at a Virtual Backgrounds Workshop April and Larry Helsel Share Their Experiences with Virtual Backgrounds Special Sale on New Monostand Save $100 Featured Photographer - Seung Hyu Baek	June 2007 Jennifer Hudson & Art Rainville use the Scene Machine at Texas School Backgrounds Take on New Importance at Texas School Larry Peters is Way Out of the Box! Partnership - An Important Element at Virtual Backgrounds Background Secrets Revealed Lighting Tip - Don't Blast, Feather Instead Featured Photographer - John Dingo	May 2007 Trevon Baker will Present a Full Day Program at the Kerrville Summer Seminar The 2007 Florida School is Right Around the Corner WPPI - The Largest Professional Photography Show Ever! Special Senior 2008 Backgrounds Tongue in Cheek: A Scene Machine for Cell Phone Cameras??? The Scene Machine Goes to the Dogs! Introducing the New Studio Pro Monostand Featured Photographer Lee Sang Jun - One of Korea's Finest Professional Photographers

April 2007 Virtual Backgrounds Revisits Past Issues of The Backgrounder How Cindy Cofer Promotes her Scene Machine With the Use of Hot Lights Old Becomes New Again The Simones Educate Korean Professional Photographers The Perfect Storm - A Double Whammy for Lab Owners Virtual Backgrounds will be a Large Part of the Upcoming TPPA Fall Seminar Featured Photographer Rick Avalos is Riding the Storm	March 2007 Larry Peters Scheduled to Teach at Virtual Backgrounds Monte Zucker - The Legend Wally & Nancy Stocks Off to a Great Start PMA Report and Sample Images: What about Alternatives to Virtual Backgrounds? VB Workshops Filling Fast! Photographers ask "Where is the Software?" Great Success at WPPI!	February 2007 Diane Wilson Sees Immediate Success with Her Scene Machine David Graham of Ireland is Off to a Great Start with his Scene Machine Double Header Workshops Begin Soon Trevon Baker Receives Photographic Craftsman Degree at PPA Why Should You Offer Senior 2008 Backgrounds ? Basil Pecknyo - 82 and Going Strong! Shirlee Robinson Gives Presentation to Connecticut Photographers	January 2007 Simone's January Seminar was a Great Success! Grand Opening of VB Learning and Demonstration Center Senior 2008 Slides Available Korean Delegation Visits VB Does Anyone Still Think That Backgrounds are Unimportant? Cindy Cofer and Mike Lamm Join the VB Family Eros Peterson Shares His Experiences with Virtual Backgrounds

December 2006 Santa Claus HAS Come to Town There are Still a Few Seats Left for the Simone Seminar in January What are Independent Photographers - Chopped Liver? Slide Sets Soon to Be Released	November 2006 Winners Announced for the 2006 Annual Print Competition The October Class was a Great Success and the Simones Will Teach Another Four Day Class in January Can a Professional Photographer Compete with the Mall Santa Claus? Featured Photographer: Jessica Laredo de Sierra	October 2006 Only a Few Days Remain for the Annual VB Print Competition Simone Will Teach Four Day Class in January Virtual Backgrounds Exhibits at Phtokina Trevon Baker's Christmas Promotion Using Virtual Backgrounds Featured Photographers: Joseph & Louise Simone	September 2006 High Dollar Prizes Announced for the VB Print Competition Simone Class - Two Spots Have Opened Up! Virtual Backgrounds Releases 2007 Workshop Dates Are We Losing Our Magic? Featured Photographer: April Helsel



August 2006 Virtual Backgrounds Annual Print Competition Simone Class - Sold Out! The Secrets to Capturing Your Own Backgrounds Tacos, Enchiladas, Tamales, Beans and Rice Top 10 Reasons Why VB is Preferred Over Green Screen VB Users Awarded by the PPA Featured Photographer: Shirlee Robinson	July 2006 Simones Scheduled to Teach in San Marcos this October They Didn't Have to Die The Virtual Backgrounds Annual Print Competition Which Virtual Backgrounds Projection Screen is Right for You? New Life for Computer Graphics Backgrounds Abstract Versus Realistic Indoor/Outdoor Backgrounds Featured Photographer: Trevon Baker's Journey to Korea	June 2006 Props Play a Key Role w/ Virtual Backgrounds VB's Annual Print Competition Lighting for Perfection with VB Doubters Doubt the Perfect Storm Choosing the Best Projector Washout: Causes and Fixes People with Backgrounds or Vice Versa Featured Photographer: Larry Peters	May 2006 Why is the Background Important Green Screen vs. VB How to Advertise Your VB System VB - Exploding with Popularity! Designer Disks - Unlimited Options Featured Photographer: Warren Gordon

April 2006 WPPI - A Great Success for VB! Rick Avalos - Guest Speaker at VB The Perfect Storm Hits! Simone Book Gets Acclaim Featuring Rick & Deborah Ferro	March 2006 Greg Stangl's Class - Huge Success Local TV Station Highlights VB Register for Trevon Baker's Class Have Fun with Custom Backgrounds Monte Zucker to Appear at WPPI Featureing Angela Vaught	February 2006 VB Hosts Sleep Over on Train Scene Machine Shines at PPA Joseph Simone Receives Award February's Big Workshop The Business Class with Attitude in Texas Featuring: Basil Pecknyo	January 2006 The Backgrounder Goes Monthly Senior 2007 Slides Available Early Trevon Baker Collection II PPA Imaging USA in Austin, Texas Polystyrene Props and VB Talk to People LIVE at VB Featured Photographer: Dave Filler

Fall 2005 VB Print Competition Results Sale on Holiday Slide Sets What to Expect at VB Workshops New Props Made Especially for VB Winning Photographer: Cindy Cofer Rick Harding, The Prom King Business Class with Attitude! Combo AC/DC Flash Huge IRS Deduction Opportunity!	Summer 2005 Background Power! Reviews Steroids for Your Studio San Marcos, Texas Backgrounds and Foregrounds Libraries: Summer Greens I & II 2005 Print Competition Pat Riley & Terry Deglau Featuring Rick Avalos VB & Web Photo Supply Info	Spring 2005 Background Power! Now Available No-Nonsense Guarantee Senior 2006 Slides Green Screen vs VB Total Background Making Control Upcoming Shows & Presentations Australia & New Zealand Tour VB Spotlight: Trevon Baker Trevon Baker Collection Introduced The Helsels & Keepsakes Studio Simone Background Collections	Fall/Winter 2004 In Memoriam, Don Blair In-House Slide Making New Slide Sets to be Introduced Three Books Available Photokina 2004 2005 Workshop Schedule VB Spotlight: Jim Wilson Simones & Virtual Backgrounds Print Competition Winners


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