GumTree Museum of Art exhibition features photography club | Arts & Entertainment

TUPELO • Peggy Grissom and Pat Caldwell have somewhat diverse sights when it will come to photography.

Grissom has embraced electronic resources like Adobe Photoshop to edit her images, whilst Caldwell takes a more regular technique. Applying his camera’s guide options, he prefers to go with what he sees via the viewfinder.

“If the cow just isn’t in the field when I choose the photograph,” Caldwell stated, “I’m not heading to set him in the subject with a laptop.”

“But I will,” Grissom swiftly responded. 

Even though their camera eyes differ, Grissom and Caldwell admire each other’s image perform as effectively as people by fellow users of the Southern Gentle Images club. The GumTree Museum of Artwork is showcasing pictures by club users in an exhibition that will carry on via June 30.

The exhibit also contains the museum’s first opening reception for an function due to the fact the commence of the pandemic early past yr.

Established in 2006, Southern Light-weight Photography offers users an prospect to generate art with their cameras and to share techniques, suggestions and shots with many others.

Caldwell and Grissom very last week achieved up with GumTree museum director Sally Kepple to speak about this year’s exhibit. The framed pics display screen the various interests and capabilities of the contributing photographers.

“We’ve experienced in prior displays right here a theme that tend to be pretty well known,” Caldwell reported. “A person year we did ‘Color of Tupelo’, it was additional of pictures strategies to downtown Tupelo. This yr, we told the club we’re unfettered. Present your stuff.”

Grissom’s pictures on display involve scenic landscapes and birds. She picked up images as a hobby 11 decades ago.

“I commenced a small late,” she reported. “I began by taking pics of grandchildren. Now, I are unable to go a total 7 days without having a photograph of anything. It relaxes me. And if the youngsters really don’t want to cooperate, you can always go outdoors and obtain a rock.”

Grissom mentioned she proceeds to learn from club associates like Caldwell.

“He is in all probability the ideal at acquiring it proper in the digital camera than any one I know,” she said. “I’m not as very good at finding it flawlessly right in the camera as he is, but it is really far better than it utilised to be.”

Caldwell was influenced to consider up photography just after viewing a photograph establish in a darkroom. “To see a white piece of paper transform into one thing, I stated, ‘This is cool’,” he stated. “That Xmas I purchased a utilised, manual Nikkormat camera.”

Caldwell is Ok with other people touching up their pictures with Photoshop, including that Grissom experimented with to instruct him how to do it.

“I just shoot manual. I’m not a Photoshop male,” he explained. “I do not have two hrs to spend on a personal computer. I want to get it ideal on the entrance close. But she tried out to assist me some. I experimented with.”

As element of its mission to give again to the group, the picture club will associate with the Boys and Girls Clubs of North Mississippi to provide basics of images periods all through the exhibition.

Caldwell, Grissom and the club customers will be honored throughout the exhibition’s opening reception June 18 from 5 p.m. until finally 7 p.m. Kepple explained she’s happy the initially article-pandemic reception is honoring local artists.

“We will not do it typically. But when we have it, it’s a big results,” she mentioned. “We have so many individuals coming who are close friends of the individuals who are listed here. So, it’s actually good to have that.”

Kepple mentioned organization is returning to usual at the artwork gallery. 

“We are heading to have openings all year very long,” she mentioned. “We have luncheons prepared and workshops prepared. We’re thrilled with coming again.”