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There will be no calendar for 2009. The 2008 year has been very challenging because of organizers and their agreements with vendors. Policies enforced by the NDCA have encouraged organizers to sign "exlusive" deals with photographers. These deals mean that anyone with a professional camera is not allowed in the ballroom. These practices have gone on for years, but until 2008 a number of organizers gave me special permission to shoot at their competition. The NDCA made an issue of this and they all told me that they could not allow that this year because they got their hands slapped and even threatened with lawsuits. This meant I was shut out of Embassy Ball, Canada Dancsport, Crystal Leaf, Emerald, Vegas, San Francisco and San Diego. In more than one of these competitions, the organizer lost $1400 in revenue because my team didn't attend, so I question whether their "exclusive" arrangement actually paid for itself. The IDSF issued a public letter calling for an end to these tactics, as they inhibit awareness of Dancesport. Studies have also shown that when the public is allowed to shoot without restrictions, the professional vendors tend to sell just as many of their shots as they do when they have exclusive arrangements, so it makes little sense to keep doing this. Some of the organizers I spoke to said that they will not be renewing the contracts, but that they had to ride out the term of the deals, many of them expiring in 2008. I did not
want to produce a calendar using old shots.
Costumes have changed. Couples have changed
-- many moving up to professional category
from amateur. Relationships and routines have
changed. So I didn't want to show old stuff
in a new calendar. An excellent Blackpool calendar
is available from Star Dance
Shop. You might
want to consider using that for 2009. Thanks
for your interest in my calendar, and for your
support. I hope to have more success next year,
and to be back with an even better calendar
than any previous ones.
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