The Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach is giving kids a chance to utilize their creative eyes with its new photography program debuting this fall. The program, called ImageMakers, is sponsored by Sony Electronics, which plans to donate Sony point-and-shoot cameras, interchangeable lens cameras and VAIO computers, as well as a stipend to help offset printing and other photography-related costs. During the course of the program, which is slated to run through Dec. 12 on Thursdays from 3:30-5:30 p.m., photographers-in-training will learn the art and science of photography, the color process, black-and-white photography, filters and composition as well as other techniques. The program culminates with the ImageMakers National Photography Contest in the spring of 2014, which will see regional winners go forth to compete for national recognition and additional educational opportunities. (bgclagunabeach.org) —A.T.
