Southport, CT: In the summer of 2002 we started doing workshops in southern Connecticut and had 10 workshops at a private estate in Southport. The property is totally private and had many great indoor and outdoor shooting areas, making it usable year-round. Some of the shooting areas include a beautiful flower and vegetable garden, a patio, and an indoor pool and jacuzzi. The living room and dining room have good available light. Our last workshop at this location was in July, 2005. Click here for photos of this location.

Westport, CT: This location is a beautiful 15-room private estate in Westport, CT, that we've used 3 times between June, 2004, and May, 2005. It has 2 acres of property with 10,000 sq ft of living area. It also has a great stone pool with waterfall, flower gardens, tennis court, Jacuzzi, glass shower, sauna, bedrooms, living room with spiral staircase, grand piano, fireplaces, workout room and more. It has an indoor, below ground racquetball court that we would often turn into a studio shooting area. It also has an outdoor deck on the second floor with barbecue grill that we use for cooking a barbecue at the workshop. Click here for photos of this location. We hope to use this location again in the future.

Playboy Party House: We've used this location in Westchester County, NY, 8 times between August, 2005, and May, 2007, and is just over the border from CT. This 20-room house is located on 6 acres of fully secluded woodland near Pound Ridge, NY. It has a large indoor atrium pool and a large outdoor pool. It also has 2 saunas and a Jacuzzi, a weight room with boxing bag, a music room with guitars and piano, and a party room with a dancers stage and pole. Some of the other features include showers with water falls and multiple jets, an electric blue bathroom, master bedroom with Jacuzzi and scenic wall painting. Outside it has luscious gardens and walks, and a disco dance floor and huge bar. The house also has a long glass wall hall and a circular 2-story glass walled stairway. This house has been used for music videos and Playboy parties. Click here for photos.

We've also had workshops in Wilton, Weston, and East Norwalk, CT, and in Rye, NY. All of these locations are luxurious private homes.

Frog Hollow Studio: Another one of our favorite locations is Frog Hollow Studio, about 12 miles NW of Philadelphia. We've had 5 workshops at this location between August, 2004, and July, 2006. The location is a 5.5 acre private estate with a photo studio and outdoor shooting areas. The air-conditioned studio was designed by the owner and built by Amish and Mennonite workers in the style of a Pennsylvania barn. The studio has a 30x40' shooting area with a 30' cyc wall and 16' high ceiling. It also has an overhanging loft and spiral stairway. The owner's house was built in 1767 of native fieldstone. The property has no public road frontage and is surrounded by trees and has a 100' pond. Click here for photos of this location. We plan to have more workshops at this location in the future.

West Milford, NJ: In early 2003 we started using a bed and breakfast in West Milford, NJ, for our workshops. This was a beautiful 6 bedroom inn located in rural northern New Jersey on a 450 acre estate with a 55 acre lake. We had the entire inn to ourselves and could shoot in any of the rooms and outdoor locations. We were able to this location year-round and we even had a three-day workshop there. We had 11 workshops at this location between May, 2003, and November, 2006. Click here for photos taken at this location. Unfortunately, this location is no longer a bed and breakfast.

In the past few years we have also used a campground in PA and a model's home in North Plainfield, NJ. Some of the other locations in New Jersey that we've used in the past include a large commercial photo studio in Englewood that we've used 7 times, a studio in Clark that we used 5 times, and another studio in Garfield that we used once. We've also had workshops at private home in Stockholm, the Birch Hill Entertainment Center in Old Bridge, an empty warehouse in Cranford, and had three workshops at a farm in Whitehouse Station.

Another location in Pennsylvania that we've used is a photo studio near Reading that has both indoor and outdoor shooting areas. We were there twice. We've also used a bowling alley in the Poconos, a former turkey farm in Kunkletown and we had a couple of two-day workshops at my friend's 41-acre estate near Scranton.

In the beginning (1991) we held the workshops at a studio I had in Roselle Park, NJ. Our most popular location was a luxurious 4-acre private estate in Howell, NJ, where we've had 79 workshops from July, 1991, to December, 1999. We've also had 24 workshops on the beach at Sandy Hook, a National Park in NJ.

In the past 2 years we've had workshops at homes in Wall, Manalapan, and Sparta, NJ. We are always looking for additional locations to hold our workshop - if you know of any, please contact us. 

One of our favorite models in the past, Tracy Bancroft, was featured in the August 1997 issue of Playboy Magazine. She had a full page photo in a pictorial called “Biker Babes”. Her photo was shot by Richard Fegley on location at a biker bar in Chicago. Tracy did a four-day Playboy promotion at the big biker convention in South Dakota just before she did our September '97 workshop. Tracy has been one of the most popular models we have had and has done 13 of our workshops. Tracy is listed as number 11 in the "Sexiest Woman Poll".

Another one of our models, Kelly Kole, was in Playboy's Sexy Celebrities and was in the August 2001 issue of Playboy as part of a 6 page layout called the "Girls of Bada Bing!" She was also in the November 2001 Celebrity Sleuth Magazine, and has appeared on the Sopranos, Saturday Night Live, Third Watch, and The View, and has appeared in 3 independent films. She also had a national Crown Royal ad in summer 2001. Kelly has done 3 of our workshops and went with us on our Panama Cruise. Another high-profile model who went with us to Panama is Playboy model and 8-time Penthouse Pet Andrea Mountjoy.

One of our favorite models ever to do the workshop was Playboy model and actress Laurie Wallace, "The Hottest Playboy Model On The Net". Laurie was in the July 2002 issue of Playboy and has been on the cover (12/01) and inside 7 issues of Playboy's Book of Lingerie, on the cover (6/01) and inside 3 issues of Playboy's Girlfriends, and has been featured on Playboy TV. She has also been featured in Fox, Cheri, High Society, Club, Leg Show, and other adult magazines. On her web site she lists 21 adult films that she has done. She has also been on many TV shows (including Howard Stern's show on "E!"), has been featured in many magazines (including Maxim), has done many TV commercials (including the Super Bowl commercial for HotJobs.com), and has done numerous print ads and catalogs.

One of our former workshop regulars, Seregon O'Dassey, was featured in the April, 2006, issue of Playboy as the Employee of the Month. Seregon is also a two-time Maxim Magazine Hometown Hottie.

Some other high-profile models that we've had include adult film star Anita Blue, and adult film star Charlie Laine, who is a regular on Playboy TV.

We usually have about a 2:1 photographer to model ratio and we've had as many as 16 models at a workshop. We brought 13 models with us on our Panama trip.

Of the more than 400 photographers who have already attended one of our 165 workshops (as of November 2004), almost 250 have been back for more. About 100 have attended 5 or more workshops, and more than 40 have attended 10 or more. At least 15 photographers have attended 20 or more workshops, including two photographers, one who normally travels an hour and 45 minutes each way from northwest New Jersey, has attended 59, and another photographer, who's about 70 years old with a pacemaker, has attended 75 of our workshops! We must be doing something right!