Chuck & Nancy

Everyone who knows me knows that I don’t do anything “small”.  My enthusiasm often gets the better of me and I get carried away.  That certainly applies to my love of photography, especially digital photography.  And I love sharing my passion with others so the library has been a perfect forum to present some classes on the topic.  I’ve been doing that recently and they’ve been very popular.  And I am so excited to help people have more success with their photos and memories.  There was so much interest in the classes the local newspaper did a couple stories on them .. I think she captured me well .. it certainly made me laugh to read.

“Last week I covered a story at the Mystic and Noank Library about digital photography. It focused on organizing and sharing photos using Picasa, a free program that enables you to work some pretty neat magic on your photos.

I watched the delightful Nancy Hevenor show the audience of varied abilities, how to make the most use of the very userfriendly program. She was friendly, articulate, engaging and nformative. Now I’m not sure what constitutes an obsession but the woman has more than 40,000 photos. And she sure is good at taking them, organizing them and sharing them with friends. And she is good at teaching others how to do the same.

She is a gift to the community. She’ll be back to the library in a week or so to teach a class on how to make Christmas cards, which will probably be filled, if it isn’t already, just like her last class.

But back to the photos. Why would someone snap and keep 40,000 photos I wondered. This fascinated me as I raced back home to download Picasa. I couldn’t wait to see what I could do. I love taking photos, although my own camera was recently pronounced dead after weeks in the camera hospital. I still get to play with the newsroom camera taking photos for my stories. Anyway, the things you can do with Picasa amazed me. And compared to Photoshop it is so easy to use. ”

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