Tonight, Karen Marathon* has her very first photography exhibit. It's based around her iPhone photographs, or iPhoneography, if you will. [You can see some of her work on her new website.]
I would like to take some credit for encouraging her along this photography route. Here's the proof. Not long after I wrote that we both started a GCSE in Photography. Although I didn't finish it, Karen did and will soon have a degree in Creative Imaging. Yeah, ok there's a limit to how much credit I can actually take.
Even walking down the street is like seeing inside her photography brain. She sees a class photo in something I (and let's face it, probably you) would walk right past.
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| Like this chair in a front yard in Studentland. I think you can see I walked past it. |
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| Or these closed curtains. I know, really, closed curtains. But there was a great photo in that. |
Yesterday I went with her to help set up the studio where the exhibit will be. It was so great to be there, it was another landmark in the journey. Karen got a lovely gift and card from someone she has inspired to follow her own adventure in photography. I nearly cried. Karen, for the record, held it together like a pro, like a pros tend to do.
Anyway, not to go all Martin Luther King on you, Karen has a dream and she's steadily working towards it.
I like it when people dream big. I like it even more when they start achieving those dreams. It's exciting!
*Tonight Karen Marathon will become Karen Photographer in my contacts. It seems only right.
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