LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) – The Texas Forestry Museum’s Nature Art Spotlight will have a new display of photographs that showcase the talents of a local young artist.

“This is our first opportunity to change them over and highlight a new person and so we’ve chosen Kinley Shockley, she is a junior as Lufkin High School,” Kendall Gay, the museum director, said.

“I love nature and I wanted to specifically portray that love for nature and the love for honestly the outdoors,” Kenley Shockley, the exhibit’s photographer, said. “It really expresses a piece of me.”

The main goal of the nature exhibit is to educate people, mostly out of town visitors, on what East Texas has to offer, forests.

“They think it’s going to be like West Texas, like a John Wayne movie when they get here, they are very surprised at how many trees we have.,” Gay said. “So, I think one of the best ways to educate people is to show our piney woods through the eyes of artists who see the beauty in it.”

They plan on displaying Kenley’s artwork for at least a year.

“I started here doing photography, the first time I actually took pictures for an event was here and I absolutely enjoyed it,” Kenley said. “I loved it so much, and the fact that they would give me the chance to do this means a lot.”

The exhibit will not change frequently; however, they are always looking for artists to work with.

“Just come by and visit us and maybe you can be the next person,” Gay said.

The museum will have an opening for the exhibit to support Kinley, Friday 19th starting at 5 p.m.

Kenley Shockley, a photographer and senior at Lufkin High School, will have work featured in the Texas Forestry Museum in Lufkin.

The opening for the exhibit featuring her nature photography will be Friday at 5 p.m.

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Hannah Waddingham has addressed the viral video of her dressing down a photographer at the 2024 Olivier Awards.

The Ted Lasso star hosted the London theatre awards for a second time on Sunday (14 April).

While on the red carpet, a photographer appeared to shout “show me leg” in her direction. Waddingham could be heard replying, in footage captured by a bystander and shared on X/Twitter: “Oh my God, you’d never say that to a man.

“Don’t be a d***, otherwise I’ll move off. Don’t say ‘show me leg.’ No.”

Waddingham was cheered and applauded as she walked away, shaking her head disapprovingly.

Appearing on The One Show on Wednesday (17 April), Waddingham revealed she’d received a written apology from the photographer.

“I called out what needed to be… absolutely necessary to call out,” she said. “And I’ve received a written apology and so now I’m so ready to move on.

“And I’m not having it overshadow what was the most… I think even more than last year, it was the most glorious, joyful, positive night. I don’t usually say this, but I was really flipping proud of that night. It did exactly what we wanted It to. The whole place erupted like a bunch of lunatics. So that’s what the takeaway should be.”

Nicole Scherzinger’s Sunset Boulevard swept the Olivier Awards with seven wins. The former Pussycat Dolls singer took home the trophy for Best Actress in a Musical, with her co-star Tom Francis winning Best Actor

Sarah Snook, the Australian star of Succession, beat out fierce competition from Sarah Jessica Parker, Sheridan Smith, and Sophie Okonedo to win Best Actress for her role in The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Waddingham recently opened up about a harrowing experience on the set of Game of Thrones – she played Unella on the HBO series, one of the Septa of the Faith of the Seven who carried out the bidding of the High Sparrow (Jonathan Pryce).

The star revealed she was “waterboarded for 10 hours” while filming a torture scene with Lana Headey’s Cersei Lannister.

“There I was strapped to a wooden table with proper big straps for ten hours,” said Waddingham. “And definitely, other than childbirth, it was the worst day of my life. Because Lena was uncomfortable pouring liquid in my face for that long, and I was beside myself.”

In photography, one learns to develop a thick skin really quickly. At least, one should. Because nothing anyone can throw at us will be as bad as the critique we give ourselves. We become our own worst critics.

That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, though. This process can allow us to learn from those mistakes we feel we made and improve. And that’s the topic discussed in this video from photographer Ari Jaaksi, otherwise known as Shoot On Film.

Analyse your own work objectively

Looking at our own work is always an interesting experience. It’s always going to feel different looking at one’s own creations. We’re looking at those images from a unique perspective that nobody else can ever understand.

Ari looks through some of his own “bad photos” and walks us through why he doesn’t like them. At the time, he thought some of them were great, but now, more detached from the image by the ravages of time, he can look at it more objectively.

I’m going through this myself at the moment. I’m looking over older shoots at the moment to try to find some specific images. These shoots are from around 2008-2015, and I haven’t thought about most of them in years.

Seeing them now through fresh eyes, I’m seeing a lot of images I’d overlooked the first time around. And looking at others brings back memories of days from long ago. And looking at some of those I’d picked in the past, I now think to myself, “wtf was I thinking?”

Even if you don’t think you’ve made a mistake when you create the image, you might believe you have at some point later in time. As our experience and style grow, we look back at our older images in a very different way.

It can also be a good way to really see how far you’ve come, too.

Learn from your mistakes

There’s a common belief out there that if your photos aren’t good enough, you just need to spend more money on a better camera or lens. This is nonsense. People have been creating amazing photography for decades on cameras that don’t even come close to today’s entry-level mirrorless cameras.

If you’re not happy with the images, the problem is, more than likely, your doing. Learning from our mistakes is how we improve and ultimately produce better images. Embrace your mistakes, learn to love them, and figure out what you’d do in order to correct them next time so they don’t come up in the first place.

Finding out what you don’t like and what not to do is just as important as knowing what you do like and what you should keep doing. Knowing how your camera works and what everything means is also very important.

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