See Through A New Paradigm – Program has been moved to Jan 18 at 7:00 pm.
with
April Milani –
“Unexpected beauty is everywhere.
Link to recording of program: Unexpected Beauty
“I spent 20 years as a military wife and 3 years ago settled in Alabama starting life as a civilian family. Homeschooling mom of two wild boys, taking one move at a time, saved by grace, I am perfectly imperfect. I am human, I make mistakes. I am not afraid to go out and try something new even if I feel I have failed. I’ve still won because I didn’t let fear stop me.” My saying this year is, “Don’t feed the fears”.
My love for photography started in my grandmother’s kitchen with her Polaroid camera. She made me really think about the shot before I took it. She would always tell me “you only get one shot, so make it count”. Although I went to college for black and white film after high school, my journey wasn’t that straightforward, and as a young adult, photography and I went our separate ways. Being a mom caused our paths to cross again, and I began to fall back in love with taking pictures because it allowed me to see my kids through the lens which inspired me in a number of new and different ways. Like most everything else that touches my life, I am rarely satisfied just taking on hobbies and doing things ‘for fun’. I can’t just learn the basics of something and move on – I believe in fully immersing myself. I wanted to know the art-form inside and out. So after that spark was reignited, I studied and completed the photography course offered at New York Institute of Photography (NYIP). Since then, I have gone off on so many rabbit trails, I never know what path I will take next.
All of the trails I go down have their own sets of artistic challenges, some more than others. It is all about my journey and lessons learned along the way that draws me in. It is the not knowing of what there is to see that takes me down the next trail.
I am hosting a 365/52 Community Project.
Running through the end of March 2021.
Let me show you how to take the ordinary, and make it “Extraordinary!”