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Jeff Caplan
Founder

Jeff Caplan founded the DWF in April 2000, back when pro digital slr cameras weighed 12 pounds and squeezed out 2 megapixel images. For 3-and-a-half years, he ran the DWF as a free website as a way of giving back to the many photographers who helped him along in his own wedding photography career.

Before the DWF became a fulltime project, Jeff hosted a morning radio show on WCBS Newsradio 880 in New York City with a daily audience of 2-million listeners. When he's not traveling to meet with DWF members at get togethers, you'll find him at DWF Headquarters a stone's throw from midtown-Manhattan.

Mark Lutz has been an artist all his life painting his first oil in 4th grade. 2007 marks his 11th year as a wedding photographer. His B.A. is in Film and Video Production from Pennsylvania State University. Mark's career has been varied but always centered around visual arts. He is a multiple award winning videographer and cinematographer, a TV news photojournalist and a commercial television producer/videographer.

Besides being inside hundreds of his clients homes his work has been on CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, FOX, MTV, OPRAH, NOVA, 60-minutes, Independent Film Channel so on and so forth...

Mark has worked with Presidents and beauty queens, drug addicts and puppy dogs not to mention hundreds of brides. He is a 100% self taught geek and he enjoys a computer problem like some people enjoy a crossword puzzle.

mark@digitalweddingforum.com

Mark A. Lutz
Technical Operations Director

One of the first things people notice about Ulysses Ashton is his broad smile. It's genuine, as is his broad sense of humor and real concern for people.

Some have likened him to a "diplomat" when it comes to his moderating style, which results from his sincere belief that every member of the DWF has something of value to offer. As active as he seems to be on these forums, he has even more going on in his life and in his business outside the DWF. Married to the beautiful Jenni for 17 years, they have been photographing as a team since 2003, although he had been photographing for many years before that. Their combined style is subtle, multi-layered, earnest and honest. It is a style that draws his clients in and attracts people from all over the world.

Ulysses has this to say, "I absolutely love photography and the way it enriches both my life and the lives of others around me."

Ulysses Ashton
Moderator

Andrena
Moderator

Dina Douglass runs the DWF Logic Smackdown, and will happily out-logic anyone who wishes. She routinely freaks out about spelling and grammatical errors, and admits to a penchant for mentally red-lining user posts and Time magazine.

Her art background includes serving in photographic and writing roles for various publications, including four years as managing editor of an off-road racing magazine; fronting an alternative band; and photographically documenting the early 80s punk rock scene.

Her business background includes six years at Arthur Andersen, where she spent three years as proposal manager for a 1200-person office, and three years as global knowledge manager for the firm’s $2.3 billion Manufacturing Industry practice. She left Andersen to join the Silicon Valley startup revolution, where she served as senior director of knowledge management at Asera (an e-business platform company) and SRI International (where Doug Engelbart invented the mouse and the world’s first word processing technology). She also led the marketing, branding and technical publications teams for an SRI spin-off focused on venture consulting and speech recognition technology.

By the end of August 2007, Dina will have visited more than 20 countries.

Amy Prutch
Moderator

Amy Prutch recieved her formal photography training while a Journalism/Mass Communications major at the University of Utah. She subsequently earned a second degree in Special Education and never considered a photography career until she literally married into the wedding photography business.

She and her husband JP have owned and operated AJ's Studio for 14 years. In 2006 she joined the studio full time and will expanding their business to include Lifestyle family and children's photography.

When not in the studio Amy happily lives the crazy life of a suburban wife and mother of two boys. She and JP have been known to host some legendary GTGs, so if you're ever in the area, let her know!

Chris Mann
Moderator

A native of the UK, Chris Mann worked in retailing as a store manager and then as marketing manager for a chain of 9 stores, before starting his own business as a freelance software trainer, teaching web design, desktop publishing and photo editing programs. In 2003 he moved to the Turks & Caicos Islands in the Caribbean to join his brother Andy's photo and video business, Tropical Imaging, where he now shoots weddings and portraits and enjoys the sunshine.

Gill Taylor
START Moderator

Louise "Lulu" Winhold
Moderator

Lulu has extreme wanderlust and will take off on impromptu road trips at the drop of a hat thanks to parents who moved and traveled a great deal--attended to 8 different elementary schools in nearly as many towns/cities followed by one high school. She has lived in BC's Okanagan Valley, Queen Charlotte Islands, Vancouver Island, North Vancouver before moving to Calgary AB and once drove about 300 miles one way from to buy fresh fruit, taking the long scenic route of course.

Married to love of herlife and fellow impromptu road-tripper Rich for 15 years now with two beautiful daughters, Jamie (13) and Carley (12).

1994 B.Ed in Art Education, included a self-directed course exploring her own art that resulted in an exhibition of her hand developed fibre b&w prints (of old buildings) open to the entire Education faculty for a month prior to convocation.

Shot weddings for friends all through university, got married, taught for a few years, took a 3-year break to stay home with her kids and got back into wedding photography working for a friend in 1999, then started lulufoto inc. in 2003 (with much help from the DWF).