I want to thank all of my Long Beach PUG members. We made a record by going from a Puppy PUG to a real PUG in only 3 months!

Unfortunately, due to personal reasons we will be moving from Long Beach to Riverside County.

I hear that Pictage will try to continue the Long Beach PUG if a suitable leader and location can be found.

I hope business is booming or you all and I look forward to keeping in touch with you!

You can always reach me at paul@paulmanke.com

The new blog for the Long Beach PUG will now be http://longbeachpug.wordpress.com

November Long Beach PUG

Well, due to a bad case of the flu going around our house we had to move our November PUG meeting to Pictage HQ!

We had Dane Sanders and Roberto Valenzuela as our featured speaker and studio spotlight.

Your lovely and talented PUG leader, yours truly!


Roberto and his presentation


We had a great group show up!


Dane Sanders and his presentation


Even Bob Davis showed up for this special event!






Illustrating the idea of breaking barriers, Dane broke some drywall...


I figured he needed to make amends to our owner & CEO Jason Keifer



All in all we had an awesome evening!!

Major PUG Update!!

Due to sickness in the Manke household AND the overwhelming response to our speaker Dane Sanders and Studio Spolight Roberto Venesuela, the Long beacg Pictage User Group has been moved to the Pictage Corporate offices in Torrance, California.

The meeting will start on time at 7 p.m. However, for your troubles, we will be serving Pizza begining at 6:30.

Please do not miss this incredible event with one of our best, Dane Sanders!

We look forward to seeing you there!

November PUG with Dane Sanders!

I just found out that our incredible Pictage photographer Dane Sanders will be visiting our Long Beach PUG!!

If you haven't had a chance to purchase Dane's book, "Fast Track Photographer" Dane will have his book and sign them after our meeting!

NOTICE: This is a schedule change due to Dane's busy schedule. We will be meeting on Thursday, NOVEMBER 13th

If you have any specific questions about this event, please let me know!

Great September PUG

Well, I want to thank all of you for your participation in this month's Pictage User Group. Even without our studio speaker we got quite a lot accomplished. We will be working on a schedule of upcoming speakers and topics.

If you have any additional suggestions or ideas please let me know.

Pictage's Annual Partner Conference

I just wanted to give you a reminder about Pictage’s annual Partner Conference. Every year Pictage pulls out all the stops to bring an awesome line up of speakers with an abundance of incredible information!

I know for me personally, just one of the sessions last year was worth the entire registration fee.

You can find more information or register here!

We will have one more PUG before PartnerCon, so if you have ANY questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me directly! I would love to see all of you guys there!

Please do not miss this opportunity to learn, network and build your business!

Michael Costa

The Long Beach PUG wants to thank Michael Costa for stopping by and sharing his work with us! We had an awesome time!

Here are a few photos that Leo Flores, Photographer and Pictage Employee took for us! Thanks Leo!!