This may interest many of you in Texas and especailly East Texas. The Jeffersonian Institute in Jefferson Texas just purchased batch of laptops and a dozen Canon PowerShot S1 IS - digital cameras since they can be used anually like a pro camera. These are for visiting photographers to use in teaching photo classes. Jefferson is the B&B capital of Texas, a town of 2000 people with over 60 B&Bs. It's on the big Cypress River and may I say we have a world of photography subjects matter out here from Caddo Lake, the only natural lake in Texas to the reinactments of the civil war held here. When we get geared up, we will want to have a visiting photographer program for students of photography. This is a major effort that we hope will grow into a new Texas college staffed by recognized professionals in the various fields we will cover, not accademic trained instructors. You can read a little about it here from this weeks local paper.
http://www.marshallnewsmessenger.com...rtcollege.html
While we are wainting for the Marshall people to decide on there desire to have this school, we will be starting it up in Jefferson with workshops and internet classes to be piped into the local public schools. We are getting the new WiFi system so that we can access the internet while out in the field around the river and the Cypress valley so you can be on line even if you're shooting on a boat down river. This is an project to bring professional skills to depressed economic areas of our state and to kids who do not have access to people like us. We're just in the formation period but hopefully we will be ready to fire up by the coming fall semester for schools and will be having classes for adults or anyone wanting to learn the skills we offer at the Institutes new building in Jefferson.
If you are interested in being involved as a visiting photographer or as a student, I will keep the group informed as to our progress and your desire to be involved. This is a wonderful little town for a week or weekend get-a-way for adult educational workshops and we will draw from Lousiana and Texas.
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