My Year in the Park:  A Middle-aged Guy Thinks about Life, the Universe and Everything.  Photographic essays by Edward Crim -- 365 days in Forest Park. 

In 2009, for 365 days, Edward chronicled, photographed and blogged about Forest Park.  (ForestPark365.com). Come enjoy the fruits of his observations and deliberations.

Throughout the evening of Opening Night: Friday, April 30,  5pm - 8pm
- Readings by the artist, Edward Crim, from his yearlong blog on Forest Park
- Slide Show ~ selections from 68,492 photographs of Forest Park
- Drawings for:  10 sets of autographed commemorative postcards, 1 for each month
of the year, 12 different cards in each set.
- Drawings for 5 different 8 x 12 art photos
- Wine & Refreshments

WHEN:
Opening Night:
Friday, April 30, 5pm - 8pm
The exhibit is up through May
Normal hours: Tues-Sat: 10 - 6

WHERE:
Norton’s Fine Art & Framing
2025 S Big Bend Blvd
St Louis MO   63117
314.645.4040

WHO and WHY:  The Artist’s Statement:

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately” a well-known 19th century writer declared in his ode to the natural world. I, as a photographer, have owed much to the natural world, and in my year’s sojourn in St. Louis’ Forest Park, managed to learn a great deal more about a place I thought I already knew. I finished the year with worn out shoes, a well-thumbed copy of the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America,  a lot of new friends, and 68,492 photographs.

Every journey has a single step at its beginning, but this one actually started with a thought, and that thought matured slowly through the fall of 2005 and throughout the following year. In 2007 I bought a telephoto zoom lens for a trip to Kenya, and practiced with it in Forest Park. One hot morning in June of that year, I stopped my bicycle to watch a yellow-crowned night heron feasting on crayfish near the Union Avenue entrance.  That was a year with a lot of time spent there in what one writer has called “St. Louis’ Town Square”. In 2008 I was out of town a lot, working on other projects, as I planned and prepared for my largest photographic essay ever. I registered a domain name (ForestPark365.com), designed the site and prepared my equipment. December 31, 2008 I took the first day’s photos (images were published for the day after they were taken) and from then on, I kept my eyes fixed on the prize.

Edward Crim has been wielding a camera since he was a child. But lately, his photos are actually looking good.