I recently attended the Pictage User Group meeting at LensProToGo in Concord, MA. The featured speaker was Fer Juaristi from Mexico. Fer is a wedding photographer that enjoys seeing natural light, texture, and creative lines. His portraiture is really, really awesome. He is a natural talent with a great, humble, and fun personality. He’s been shooting for the last four years with a background in video. He watched a video in 2006 featuring some of the great wedding photographers of our time called Masters of Wedding Photography. This video truly inspired him and motivated him to start shooting stills.

In my research of Fer and his work I noticed that a workshop was scheduled the day after the PUG meeting. I was excited! I signed up as soon as I could. I got up nice and early that day, practiced some hot yoga, ate a healthy breakfast, and headed out on my Daytona 675 motorcycle to Boston for the workshop. Riding in the morning was fun and yes, I used my iPhone for the gps that’s mounted on the handle bars. It’s convenient and really made the ride straightforward with very little stress getting to the workshop. Once I arrived at the Ad Hoc Studio I was happy to find Fer had just arrived. Ahh, the benefits of arriving early. We had a few minutes to get to know each other and share some stories. I was impressed with his energy and infectious happiness.

Once the FerShop started Fer went over his origins, family, style, imagery, and pricing. The day was planned around discussion, shooting, lunch, discussion, more shooting, and editing. We had two models to work with, Laura and Ryan. They are getting married in February of 2012 at Aventura Spa Palace Resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico. They really knew how to turn on the hotness and showed us some badass chemistry. They really worked it for us, even with the hot sun in their eyes they managed to keep it cool. Thanks Laura and Ryan!

I really enjoyed attending the FerShop. It’s so fun to meet, talk, and work with other photographers. Here’s some of the images from the day that I really love. Thanks Fer! I look forward to following your work and enjoying your company again.

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Those crazy cats at Alt F, Dalisa and John have hit the road in their ginormous RV. They are driving from Las Vegas to all points west… mostly. They have blogged every day of the trip on www.earth13.com but, I thought I’d buy domains that are more reflective of their true personalities www.jmcthervking.com and www.ladydollthervqueen.com

Their first stop is in Dallas at the studio of JVS and Anne. I so, so wished that I took up the offer to fly down and attend but, that dang time thing gets in the way a lot often. I saw a supah cool image that JVS took on the roof of the RV that the Cooper’s are driving. Great work Joseph! Get your butt in gear and host another seminar. I really want to attend again.

My quote of the day for the Coopers is “And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed.” by Dr. Seuss.

Photographers! Don’t forget to sign up for the Very Alt F tour! They’ll be in town on August 7th. You can sign up here!

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Another great Convention. This time we were in Tampa, Florida. Initially, it was cold. Seriously cold! It warmed up though and we had a wonderful Wedding From Hell. This was a seminar/skit that was designed to show how a wedding can go bad and how to deal with it. The photographers that shot the wedding were Jen and Steve Bebb, Greg Gibson, and Susan Stripling. I played the priest. Yah.. I know kinda funny but, I have to say was a lot of fun. Here’s a slide show of the day from Hope Photography.

As usual the seminars were awesome! The people were spectacular and sharing good times was unforgettable. I also managd to get some time in for some shooting. This time we did a water theme. The model had a great look. Here name was Jersey and she was a trooper. Here’s some of my most memorable images from the convention.

More pics are here
and Pictures from the 2007 DWF Convention in Veagas

This is a nice BMW M3 that caught my eye

Jake Morrow and Jason Domingues – Jump!

Jersey playin with some pearls

Jersey on the board walk – Snake Tongue

Jersey in the bushes

Our homage the shovel and JMC

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