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Creative Exposures

It had been ten years since my last visit to a Creative Exposures meeting. I has just finished a new portfolio of images, Spirits of Bonaventure, inspired by the novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and so when Jim Pogue, a student of mine from the Columbus Museum asked me to be a guest speaker, I accepted, and took along "Spirits". The club was going strong at that point and the members filled a large meeting room at the Ledger-Enquirer. I understand that over the years, Creative Exposures' membership dwindled to almost nothing, before a recent arrival of a few new members reinvigorated the group. One of those new members is Alicia Jasper, a recent student of mine at CSU Continuing Ed and an able and conscientious secretary of the group. Alicia sends email announcements, forwards interesting information and generally gets the word out about the club-I was there because of her reminders. There were about a dozen of us last Wednesday night, including my old buddy Jim Pogue, a good mix of amateurs and professionals, and we had a lively discussion followed by a print critique. Creative Exposures meets the 3rd Wednesday of each month at Knology Cable Company, off Moon Rd. If you are interested contact Alicia aliciahf1@aol.com .

Seek out your fellow photographers for friendship and inspiration,
and Keep Shootin'.
Kenny

Family PhotoArchives

On Saturday, February 7, I presented a program for Columbus Regional Healthcare at their Mind, Body and Spirit women's retreat at CSU's Cunningham Center. The title of my presentation was Photography, Family and the Creative Life. The core of my talk was the Family section, where I discussed family photographs, the visual archives that illustrate our families' histories. I challenged the participants to: Become detectives/archaeologists for their families; to find out who has control of the photos (often the oldest surviving female member of a family), make a visual inspection of the oldest and rarest photos and act immediately to save the ones in danger and copy the others for reproduction and distribution to family members.

I challenge each of you to do the same; it will be the most important photographic project you will ever undertake. Please contact me with any questions; look here for samples of my restorations. If you attended my presentation, contact me for $50.00 off your first restoration.

Protect and preserve your family history and

Keep Shootin'

Kenny