Zack’s 3-day Photo 101 workshop covered everything from the basics of photography, workflow, making beautiful portraits with natural light, to post-production, to marketing and getting your name out there, and even a real-world scenario, where we had to photograph a family of 7 outdoors.

Zack is just as wonderful in person as he is on his One Light DVD and as he comes across on his blog, www.zarias.com

This guy is honest, he is real and down to earth. His wife, Meg, is delightful and Erik just freakin’ rocks.

Oh, did i mention Hawke is freaking adorable? What a great baby!

As far as photos, here are a few from the workshop. These first 2 are exercises in taking portraits using natural light.

after watching Zack take portraits of models, I decided to take matters into my own hands and photograph the photographer – alas, here is a portrait I took of Zack.

and here is Erik. I feel that every time I saw him through the course of the workshop, he was drinking coffee…..so here is my portrait of Erik…

and last, but not least, 2 abstract images I took in and around Zack’s studio…