Just Me Photography is all about photography by me (and you) and for me (and you). DeAnne and I have been taking pictures for over 10 years. Like many other ladies, we gathered at the Cedar Key Arts Center on Saturdays to learn from a local master, Chris Harkness. We were thrilled to learn how to take photos, develop film, and enlarge prints. We were like kids in a candy shop!
DeAnne and I started taking pictures of people, events, and even pets to help support our habit of photographing our own families. We always had a lot of fun and have fond memories of those shoots. I also remember MANY late nights in the darkroom with DeAnne working on prints. We were there so late some nights that the partiers (who were kicked out from the L&M) would stop to watch when were were outside washing prints at 2 AM. They thought they had too much alchohol when they saw us with a HUGE PVC pipes outside with water hoses. LOL!!! What we were really doing was washing life-sized black and white prints of our daughters. Our homes are filled with images of our families that we took and we created. Both in education (me in Art & DeAnne in Elementary Ed), we collaborated with photography in the classroom too. We even got the opportunity to teach workshops for other educators in places like the Harn Museum in Art in Gainesville.
A lot has changed in the past 10 years. We don't meet up in the darkroom or participate in "Purina Pet Days" anymore, but we continue to take photography courses, collaborate on cool finds, and share a love of photography equipment- now digital. We are just about ready to take our show on the road again. This time in a different way. We want to teach YOU how to take better photographs. We want to support YOU in learning how to use those fancy cameras. We also want to teach YOU to use editing software for even more creative images. So be on the lookout for new workshop details starting in a few weeks.
Let the fun begin!
