Exploring with Cameras

Me and another adult set out with a dozen teens with cameras in downtown Santa Ana for the annual Photography Workshop. The workshop is organized by the Santa Ana Library Teen Space and was so successful last year, we're doing it again!



Currently, the cameras we're using are various cheap digital point-and-shoot styles but they allow the teens to creatively view their surroundings. We had people climbing walls, trees and benches, lying upside down, lying on the ground, shooting up/down anyways they could. We are orchestrating this workshop at 2 separate libraries in Santa Ana in order to reach even more of the community and I can't wait to see what they capture.

If you'd like to get involved or donate to the cause, email me for details of how you can make a difference.

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Santa Ana Library Photo Project

It's that time of year again and I've volunteered to orchestrate the Santa Ana Library Teen Space Photography Project for Spring 2010. Funded by a Grant to the Library, this Project/Workshop is a unique opportunity for local teens to use a digital camera, take as many photos as they want walking around town and/or on an organized field trip and then choose a few photos to put up in the Teen Space and 1 Photo per teen submitted to a local photography competition.

This year we are starting April 3rd with a field trip to the Getty Villa. Last year this Photography Workshop was a great success, we had a lot of positive feedback from the teens involved and others that wished they had joined when it started. We had 8 of the 20 final pieces accepted and honored in the Orange County Fair Photography Competition.

Please contact me or the Library for more information, to donate for this particular or project or to get involved. Cheers!


Here's our trip to deliver the accepted artwork to the OC Fair in 2009.


One of our participants photos hanging in the photography competition space, with a red ribbon of acknowledgment.