St. Patty's Day PUG meeting

St. Patrick's Day is generally associated with four leaf clovers, green beer, and luck. Let me tell you that this St. Patrick's Day Jay and I were blessed with a ton of luck. We were the proud hosts of this month's CT PUG meeting. For those readers who are unsure of what a PUG meeting is it is a group of photographers who get together once a month at different locations. What happens at these meetings well the PUGs mission statement I guess sums it up the best in saying that the PUG is meant “to facilitate communication and education among professional photographers at a regional level around the nation in order to allow photographers to learn from each other and share experiences.” What is truly great about this group is photographers get the opportunity to network and build really good relationships and even friendships with others in their industry. These relationships make it an easy forum to share what has been working for you professionally and what you are struggling with and allows others to help you. But above all things the best part about the PUG is how much fun we have!! These meetings are always filled with laughing so hard that your stomach hurts and smiling and joking around with friends that understand your life as a photographer.
Well this month we were incredibly lucky for several reason first off Justin and Mary the leaders of our group were back in CT to lead our group after their super successful Spread the Love Tour. We were also super lucky because our speakers were the ever amazingly talented Jerome and Jennifer Braga of Studio 1923! They gave a great presentation similar to what they presented at Mystic 5 to a very packed living room/ dining room/ kitchen. (People were packed in everywhere and anywhere).

Check out this picture courtesy of Studio 1923 of our very packed living room!!!
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Jay and I really enjoyed this St. Patrick’s day partying with our photography friends and we really want to extend a huge heartfelt thanks to everyone that came and made this a successful PUG meeting and another huge thank to the Braga’s who were fricking amazing!!!! See you all next month!!!!!!

Our first PUG hosting.

Wednesday night the 25th of FEB we hosted our first PUG meeting. If you have been following the blog, em hum--- you should be :) we have been getting ready for this awesome occasion.
We had a few people as you can see from the photos below.

All in all it was a great thing to prepare for it, which forced us to get some things around the house done that needed to get done, which totally worked out for not only our benefit but our guests too. We had Connecticut's finest photographers (and some joining states as well) all piled together in out home to have a blast, Justin and Mary decided to theme the night in honor of the Oscars. People brought some awesome Oscar themed food, such as Frosted Nixon cupcakes, The Dark Chocolate Night Hershey kisses. It was Awesome.

Every month there is a PUG meeting and it revolves to different members homes or studios and there is a guest speaker that does a presentation on either business or personal item. This month it we had the pleasure to have the legendary one and only Robert Norman, his presentation was how he got his start in this business and how he continues to market himself. He will also be revealing some info on his newly launched PHODcasts, which are taking iTunes by storm!

Everyone was very close with each other and maybe even a little personal ;) but you can see how Justin and Mary Marantz began the night as we all sat quietly and listened, yea right, but we did listen and laugh, we laughed a lot that night my cheeks are still sore.

Here is Robert giving his presentation as David Apuzzo and myself look on in awww. Especially when the slide came up about Satan being a Lesbian, oh my...... That was some funny stuff.

Can't wait till next month :)