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to Facebook. “I noticed that everybody was in awe of my postings,
asking me how it was done,” he says. Based on the social media
feedback, he realized that many digital photographers lacked ba-
sic photography and post-processing skills. A lightbulb went on:
There was a market for sharing his skills and experience with
peers who needed guidance.
“So that’s how it started,” says Caparas of his current career as
a photography educator. He sold his brokerage interest to his
partner this year and now has complete freedom to travel widely
to teach photography workshops.
Each year he spends several months in Asia teaching workshops
in various locales—Hong Kong, Bangkok, Indonesia, and Myan-
mar, to name a few. He also teaches workshops in his home base
of Tampa, Florida, and in California—wherever event organizers
request his presence. In the United States, he focuses on one-on-
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