Local photographer featured in San Diego exhibition

By FRITZ MAYER

CALLICOON, NY — When Kit Jones’ wife gave him a digital camera back in 2003, he started taking a serious interest in photography. Two years later, he stopped at the Stone Arch Bridge in the Town of Callicoon and took a photograph that has been winning awards ever since.

He said of the shot, “I was going home to Youngsville from Narrowsburg, and the sun was very low in the sky. It was the time photographers call ‘the golden hour’ just before sunset.”

That was in the fall of 2005.

Since then, the photo was selected as Best of Category during the Center for Fine Art Photography’s exhibit in Fort Collins, CO in September 2006. The judges of the National Photo Awards also voted it Best of Category in their contest in November 2006.

Now, the photo will be displayed at the Art of Photography Show at the Lyceum Theater Gallery in San Diego, CA, from April 14 to May 28. Approximately 20,000 people are expected to view the show during the six-week run.

Before turning his attention to photography, Jones owned a company called Brainstorm Productions, Inc., which produced film and video for Fortune 500 corporations. He is also a published short-story writer and has written plays that have been produced Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway.

Since discovering photography, however, he now spends most of his time in pursuit of taking pictures.