Hello there, Digital image makers and visual arts fans,

 This Thursday (May 20^th) marks the 2^nd anniversary of the founding of the Digital Image Group here in Douglasville. To celebrate, we are having our meeting from 6:30 through 9 p.m. at the Douglas County Chamber of Commerce Building in downtown Douglasville. The address is 6658 Church Street, Douglasville, GA 30134. This is across the street from City Hall and a couple of doors east on Church Street heading towards Campbellton Street and Fairburn Road.

If you are receiving this message, I’m asking you to please take some time out of your busy life and come to the shows! This is a lifestyle enrichment process. Also, since we will be displaying pictures at the Chamber building from now on, it will give you a chance to see what we are up to. It’s the beginning of something BIG!

 If you would like to bring some refreshments, please feel free to do so. There will be Birthday Cake, some drinks and cookies. We expect there to be between 25 to 40 people at the event, maybe more, so if you are one of the lucky ones who attends, you may make some new friends!

 We will be projecting pictures and videos during the party as well, so if you have some to bring on a CD/DVD  or a jump drive to show us, please do.

 In addition to the festivities, we will all get a chance to see the great pictures hanging on the walls at the Chamber where once there were none, thanks to the efforts of quite a few of our members. There is still plenty of wall space left, so if you have pictures of Douglasville and Douglas County, people, places, events or things, we are still “hanging the show” until we have the walls filled.

By the way, our “Red Nation Pow Wow Wall” could use some more photos of this colorful event from back on March 20th. Should you decide to contribute pictures, please go to www.digitalimagegroup.org and read the specifications on the front page—black or white frames, black, gray or white mattes, wired backs etc. You may bring framed pictures to the Birthday Party for us to hang . . . or wait to see what is already up and contribute from there . . . Wait until you see Glenn Bickford’s “Driving Miss Daisy to the Woodie Fite Center” . . . and Rene Morris’s “Old Lithia Springs Drive-In” . . .

 Gene Spicer made the comment that some people are wondering why the frames need to be black or white. This is a standard request for photo gallery shows in order to provide a consistent look to the show. Also, it helps when the time comes to take the show down and put up the new show because you can recycle the frames, unless of course, you sell your pictures. All proceeds from any picture sales go straight to you, the photographer.

 Two years ago when we started this group, we had 16 people show up in the pouring rain to show their work. Since then we have had 24 meetings made up of almost 5,000 pictures and many videos. Our largest audience thus far has been over 35 people with as many as 17 presentations in one evening. Our mission is simple: Show your work. Come see what everyone else is doing in the Digital Visual Arts.

 Show, Tell, Listen, Learn, Collaborate. Our new gallery show at the Chamber is one of those great collaborations. We hope to see you there!