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Photography offers more than life skillsAffordable remodeling options.Continued from page 18them some rules of composition, to have them thinkable to go out and live on their own, independently.about picture taking before they took them. Some never will. The participants were not told what to shoot andAlthough McLean has been involved with CLOwhat not to shoot. The only rule, McLean stressed, isprograms for those who are developmentally chal-that if they are taking pictures of people and animalslenged for some time, her background is in the arts.they need to ask for permission.She has a degree in art and art history from theThey really had an interesting point of view andUniversity of Toronto and a diploma in applied photog-they loved taking pictures of each other, saysraphy from Sheridan College.McLean.It is understandable she wanted to do more thanSybil Rampen said the program did a lot for theirlife skills with the residents. After attending an artconfidence. For all of them it built their sense of self program in Burlington that impressed her, she real-esteem and identity and gave them an eye to look atized she could teach them something different. Thisthe world around them.is something we can do and I could do it amazingly. IAll but one of the participants had a camera, onecould teach them photography. It was while she washad a digital through-the-lens Canon camera and onegoal setting with her boss, complaining how frustrat-had a camera with a design and a language no oneing my job was, when all I was doing was going tocould decipher. As long as it had a screen, they weredoctors' appointments and spending 14 of our 20 daysokay. Zooming not so much.that month working, that she proposed the idea of However, she found all of them were using theHate your kitchen?teaching photography.wrong settings. She started out with a Power PointThe SIL manager, Cindy Puklicz, knew of McLean'spresentation.background.5 ways to afford the kitchen you want:I wanted it to be really simple. The more classesI was quite pleased that she was going to take thatthat were held, the more they participated, bringing inon. Margie has a long history of working with peopletheir own work and participating in critiquing others.1.Renew your cabinets with a Tune-Upwith developmental disabilities and I think she is partI decided at the beginning to teach them rules of com-& save up to 90%of the attraction, just the way she works with peopleposition. I got them to know what they were seeing.Our exclusive pneeding support, she said.rocess restores and repairs the original fi nishThey became really able to talk about their work, inMcLean has had several sessions, topped off with aon wood cabinet doors to 90-95%. 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