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My earliest photographs were oriented toward storytelling. My mom was a writer. My dad was an advanced amateur photographer back in a day when photography was the high-tech photography of choice of the technically-inclined. Life Magazine, Look, and the Saturday Evening Post were picture vehicles that told the news in storied form with pictures. I had aspirations of becoming one of those photographers. Little did I understand that that particular medium would be so fleeting. Televison and moving photography supplanted them before I was even an adult. But I had already become a committed photographer for several newspapers. A savvy old newspaper editor taught me the importance of each photograph "telling a story". 

I adapted my story pictures to my own stylized portraits of life in snapshots. People liked this style well enough for me to support my family for a good number of years, until I evolved and moved on to another aspect of my career. Still, I almost habitually seek to capture the life stories that unfold around me. The commonplace inevitably becomes cherished memories. Digital technology is especially adaptable for capturing our life stories.

There is something about freezing a moment in time for our later reflection that is lost in video capture. The ease of keeping an ongoing journal as it happens, along with our written thoughts, that makes it seem unimaginable to not participate in this process.

I sometimes fancy that these images and thoughts will mean something to future generations and perhaps help them in some way to not have to repeat the same mistakes that we make--or even give them a leg-up legacy of what did work--a blueprint of sorts for how to live effectively. I think artists have had similar aspirations since it all began. Else, what does it matter? I think we have a good shot now of succeeding in this. But I have always been an optimist.

 

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In Nashville July 11, 2013? Inside track for this Concert

Okay, here's the thing, I have a few Artists Screening passes that will get your entire family into this concert at the Grand Ole Opry House July 11th. I will be the official photographer, or will have someone there as such. These passes will cost you twenty bucks until I run out. The tickets are being sold at normal concert prices through Ticketmaster and the Opry Box Office, but these are available only through my contact.

You need to be aware of this event as a Nashville Artist. Applications and Auditions at a lot of levels are held Fall, Winter, and Spring, so you will want to know firsthand what this is about. It is a good paying gig for both known artists and this next year, one or more unknown featured artists. This event is in its sixth year and has flown under the radar pretty much as it is an adjunct to a choral festival that precedes it.

If you have or know children who may enjoy or need to be exposed to an example of how a classically trained children's choir can beautifully back-up artists from all music genres, these kids are among the best in the world--drawn from great child and youth choirs everywhere. If you have or know children who reside in Nashville, you will want to be aware of a local host-choir effort that begins this fall. Get them to this event.

If you need fund-raiser for your group, they have one that will easily generate big bucks fast for a well-networked organization--selling tickets to this event in the Nashville area.

You can contact me on Twitter or FB or via comments here and I will try to hook you up, but you need to respond quickly. It is a great family-oriented multiple style concert. It pairs a great professional symphony with celebrity artists and a mass children's choir that is out of this world. You've never seen anything like this unless you have attended this concert in past years.