Photography exhibit showcases three artists in North Augusta

“He was simply tickled to be within the combine with it,” Owens stated.

Owens has been doing pictures for a really very long time and it form of began for him when he was deployed through the Vietnam War.

“I began seeing the cameras extra and so I bought on the search to purchase me a superb one,” Owens said.

Owens still has that camera, but doesn’t use it that  much.

Owens, who spend most of his life working as a mechanical engineering, never let the photography bug go and in his retirement he has been able to do it more.

“Photography was always a love and that I really didn’t realize how much I did enjoy until much later,” he stated.

Hunter grew to become inquisitive about pictures when he was in center college and remembers a time when he did pictures in faculty. 

He has been retired for the final 10 years and now has extra time to do his pictures. When he was a pastor at an area church within the space, Hunter took plenty of pictures of church members, however took his artwork to a brand new degree after artist Jim Harrison noticed his work.

Hunter stated he offers his pictures away as presents and sees a non secular connection along with his artwork.

Hunter largely makes use of his drone to take pictures of assorted locations in North Augusta just like the North Augusta Greeneway and Hammond’s Ferry. All of his photos are achieved digitally. 

“I ride my e-bike around and I have my drone in the back and I just take pictures all the time,” he stated. “It’s my therapy.”

He stated pictures has change into an outlet for him and it might probably additionally deliver emotion to others.

“I can simply throw it up within the sky and try this,” he said.

Hunter really didn’t have to prepare for the exhibit, but instead he used work from his massive inventory to put in the art exhibit.

Hunter was the one who came up with the name Three Old Men and Their Cameras after he got the inspiration from the 1980s movie “Three Men and a Baby.”

He stated the essence of artwork, like pictures, can be utilized to teach and inform an viewers.