WEDNESDAY, September 4
Meeting Location: 3200 Lakewood Ranch Boulevard (East Manatee Fire Rescue District Admin Office), Lakewood Ranch, FL
5:45 to 6:15 pm: Pre-Meeting Foto-Focus
Topic: Camera Bags and What You Should Have in Them, Steve Race
6:15 pm: Gather, Socialize, Buy 50/50 Tickets, Vote for People's Choice
6:30 pm: Meeting with Guest Speaker Rick Ferro
Topic: Disney, Working in the Most Magical Place
Rick will take you through his set-ups and how he uses different lens to capture his award winning images. He will also cover, many different poses he has to do within one hour working at the Castle at Magic Kingdom.
Biography:
Currently Rick is a Lead Photographer and Trainer for Walt Disney World’s Fine Art Department.
In the last forty years, Rick has impacted the photographic community by being one of the leading wedding photographers in the nation. In addition to wedding photography, his clients have included 7-UP, Sprint, the Miami Dolphins, Master Card, and Mercedes Benz.
In 1993, Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, approached Rick to create for Disney a wedding photography department. Rick became the Senior Wedding Photographer for Disney and trained their photographers. Rick was a photographer for ABC’s “Weddings of a Lifetime” and the “Regis & Kathie Lee Show”. Rick currently has photographed “Weddings of a Lifetime” for Disney’s “Free Form” channel.
Rick has owned and operated over five photography studios and operated a photography concession for an international cruise line for three years.
In 1999 Rick wrote his first book, “Creative Techniques For Lighting and Posing”, published by Amherst Media. Since then, Rick has had over eight books published in multiple languages.
Rick is a Lifetime Member of WPPI, Wedding & Portrait Photographers International, and is a member of PPA, Professional Photographers of America. Rick has an Associate of Science Degree and is a WPPI Master Photographer. Rick has received his PPA Master Photographer & Craftsman degree. He has also earned the honor of his images meriting the PPA Loan Collection and Showcase Collection.
In 2006 Rick received, along with his wife, the United Nations Leadership Award from the International Photographic Council at the United Nations in New York City.
