SPRING IS HERE!

Stacey is taking advantage of the gorgeous subjects in her garden and has been getting some beautiful shots. Using a close-up approach, she's captured the inner colors of her tulips, orchids and iris. By having the pictures printed in different sizes and using individual frames, Stacey has created a collage of her flowers on her living room wall.

What an awesome way of bringing the beauty of a garden indoors to admire long after the blooms have faded.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Both Brittany and Kimberly brought several examples of their photography to our last meeting. Brittany is interested in working in Black and White photography and has been recently experimenting in different techniques with distortion using negative exposures of her film. The black and white images work well with the antiqued subjects she chooses -- helping to not only give the photo itself an aged feel -- but enhancing the fact that the original pieces are aged on their own!

The postcards, war bonds and spectacles are outstanding in black and white.

Kimberly showed an album with her photographs of architecture. Her photos included everything from spectacular churches and cathedrals -- filled with intricately detailed woodwork and carving -- to the natural, raw structure of the rocks at Stone Henge. Kimberly was able to capture some great lighting on the buildings and timed her photos around the flow of tourists to keep her subjects as unobstructed as possible. Her album was a beautiful statement of the talent of a photographer with a great concept of architecture.

Both women have a terrific eye for the art of photography -- and both very different in their styles.

HGTV

Our Creative Arts Group artists are getting the recognition they deserve! David Sabbagh is being featuring on HGTV this coming Friday night -- May 4 -- on their "Look What I Did" segment. They'll be showing some of the finished rooms in David's home that feature his custom designs.

A replay of the show will be on Wednesday, May 30.

Set your VCR or TIVO it -- this is exciting stuff!

Congratulations David

POETRY

Congratulations to Terence for being published! His poem “Mute Words For Deaf Ears” was selected in a poetry contest on Poetry.com. Less than 300 poems were selected to be published into a bound book – Timeless Memories.

The book is available thru the Poetry.com website: http://www.poetry.com/Publications/display.asp?ID=P8034236&BN=AFO&PN=1

Also a cool side note, Terence’s work was printed on page ONE of the entire book!