Cloggers and Friends by Lois Elling

Cloggers and Friends

by Lois Elling

Cloggers and friends

a Photo Book By Lois Elling

Cover Photo: back: Candy, Jane, Shirley, Cindy, Fabien front: Deann, Ferne, Stathie, Ruth

About this Book This book is the result of a project I decided to do as part of SoFoBoMo, which stands for Solo Photo Book in a Month. The idea behind SoFoBoMo is to give photographers an incentive to create a photo book in just 31 days, start to finish. Since I’m one of the many who have thought of making photo books, but never did, I decided to participate. There’s nothing like a deadline to get something done! I then had to find a subject for my book, wanting to make it something different so that I could learn from the experience. When I thought of taking pictures of my dancers, I knew it was the perfect subject. I’ve taught clogging for over 30 years and many of my dancers have been with me a very long time. They’re all special people to me and I wanted to honor them in this book. I hope I’ve presented them in the positive light that I aimed for.

Studio in San Jose

This book includes most of those dancers who came to my clogging classes between May 11 and June 10, 2009. The dancers in these pictures are cloggers with one of my groups: the Diablo Mountain Cloggers in Walnut Creek, the Blossom Hill Cloggers in San Jose, and Clogging Express in San Leandro.

Diane, Eyrene, Becky, Cinda

Pat Diane, Ellen, Bambi, Carol

Estelle, Sonja, George, Donna

Diane, Eyrene

Becky, Carol

Bambi

6 Jane

Shirley

Marta

Donna

Jane, Donna

Bonni, Texas, Stathie

Fabien, Ruth

Shirley, Carolyn

Deann

Carol

Marcy

Sue

Bonni

Diane, Ellen

Annie, Doug

Donna

Elmer, Rita, Eyrene

Nancy

Diane, Ellen

Rita, Elmer

Eyrene, Carol, Pat, Becky, Cinda

12 Carol

Nancy

Pat

Dancing

Fabien

Carol

Doug Sherri

Deann

Fabien

Susan Ramona

Fabien Texas, Jane, Candy, Sue, Carol at Contra Costa Co. Fair

Deann, Cindy

Sherri

Wini

Rita, Elmer

Eyrene, Becky, Carol

Carol

George

Becky

Dancers blurred

Becky, Carol

Diablo Mountain Cloggers Candy, Jane, Shirley, Cindy, Fabien Deann, Ferne, Stathie, Ruth

Ferne Deann

Anthony, custodian

Multi-purpose room at Walnut Heights Elementary School, Walnut Creek. The Diablo Mountain Cloggers have danced at this school since 1982.

Diana

Becky

Vanessa

Vanessa, Becky George

Becky, Carol

Becky, George Carol, Wini, Lois, Donna, Ellen, Diana

Wini, Diana, Pat, Sonja, George, Carol

Blossom Hill Cloggers back: George, Bambi, Diane, Diana, Elmer, Pat middle: Carol, Annie, Ellen, Rita, Carol front: Deann, Donna, Estelle, Sonja, Wini

Liz

Charlene

Danielle

Acknowledgments & Thank You

This wouldn’t have been possible without the help and cooperation from all my dancers, the people you see in this book. I’ve learned so much over these 31 days, about photography, making portraits, people, and especially, myself.

A huge debt of gratitude goes to the following cloggers for not only cooperating and putting up with having a camera in their faces for a month, but for being wonderful people. I am honored to count you all as friends.

An extra thank you to Doug Chin, for loaning me his Canon 20D to ﬁnish the project after my camera died 13 days into it.

Annie Blank, Cinda Brewer, Pat Burke, Donna Case, Doug Chin, Jan Cordes, Sue Forsee, Estelle Glazer, Fabien Goulay, Ellen Graves, Bonni Hart, Texas Herbst, Carolyn Horvath, Donna Kennedy, Bambi Larson, Diane Larson, Eyrene Lawrence, Wini Leeds, Danielle LeFevre, Carol McCord, Diane McQuillen, Elmer & Rita Mangrum, Candy Marciano, Stathie Michaud, Becky Naumann, Marcy Nelson, George Nickum, Shirley Nootbaar, Deann Norris, Diana Post, Ramona Rojas, Nancy Rubio, Susan Ruiz, Cindy Saunders, Ferne Scelsí, Charlene Slemmons, Sonja Sue, Ruth Suzuki, Jane Sturm, Marta Tanrikulu, Sherri Titus, Carol van Straaten, Liz Wickham, Vanessa Wray; and also to our long-time custodian and friend at Walnut Heights Elementary School, Anthony.

Lois Elling June, 2009

The End