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Jeff Caplan
Founder
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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.
jeff@digitalweddingforum.com
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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
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Mark A. Lutz
Technical Operations Director
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Timothy Uhl
DWF Marketing Director
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Timothy Uhl Tim Uhl has worked for
advertising agencies over the past 7 years. Along with that, he
also co-owns and operates a brick and mortar photography studio,
Retrospect. Tim brings advertising industry sales, marketing and
promotion experience and blends it with a unique perspective very
relevant to wedding photographers. Whether you're learning about
the latest enhancements to the DWF, or reading one of Tim's helpful
threads in PRO Business, you'll know he's hard at work serving the
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Diane Bingham amps up the efficiency
of the DWF back office with drive and a meticulous approach to ..
well.. everything. She's known to say things like "lead,
follow, or get out of the way!" And when she does, you'd better pick
one quickly.
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Diane Bingham
Director Administrative Ops
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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."
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Ulysses Ashton
Moderator
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Andrena
Moderator
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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.
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Guy
Collier was born in Singapore to
parents both stationed there with the Royal Navy, Guy moved back to
England at the tender age of 2 months. He’s lived in Hampshire all
his life and now lives in Oakley, near Basingstoke, with his wife of
9 years, Nicky, and their 6 year old daughter Jessica.
Guy almost joined the Royal Navy himself but elected to turn down a
place at Dartmouth to read Law instead. Finding that too tedious for
words he then worked in IT as a Business Analyst for a number of
years until redundancy loomed large in early 2008.
He’s now running his own wedding business, and first picked up a
camera in April 2005. Since then it’s pretty much become the sole
focus other than his family.
Guy is a music nut with tastes ranging from Radiohead to
Tindersticks, via Red House Painters, Explosions in the Sky and Kid
Koala. He’s an avid cyclist and runner, loves watching rugby and
motorbike racing and is so prone to crashing motorbikes that he had
to give up riding them. He broke his neck in 1998 and used to shave
his legs when he raced bikes. Easy ladies…
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Guy Collier
Moderator
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Amy Prutch
Moderator
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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!
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Jesus Tirso lives in the Houston, Texas area where he is a full time program manager at a major computer company. He has twenty five years of experience in the computer business but his true passion lies with photography - which he's been involved in for nearly thirty years. Jesus has been shooting weddings part time since early 2005 and expects continued growth in his business in the coming years by differentiating himself from others in the area in terms of quality, products, and customer service.
He is addicted to DWF!
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Jesus Tirso
Moderator
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Chris Mann
Moderator
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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.
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Gill Taylor was born in Ireland, but has been living in England for he last 12 years. She gained a recognised photography qualification in 2003, before second shooting weddings with some pro photographers around the UK, this being where she gained the majority of her experience. She started her own photography business in November 05. Having held a variety of jobs, from IT Consultant to Programme Management, Gill shook off the corporate shackles in 2007 to take her photography business full time.
Gill does have time for some other interests (yes, really) which include, in no particular order, her cats, her 650cc motorcycle, music and DIY but her first love is, of course, photography.
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Gill Taylor
START Moderator
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Louise "Lulu"
Winhold
Moderator
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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).
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