Keeping their legacy aliveOver the last 15+ years, I have been videoing, photographing and producing live-streaming for local churches, weddings, conferences, and other events. I am frequently asked to video and/or photograph events and weddings, locally and internationally. My passion project is Faces of Our Elders - Filming and photographing senior citizens as they tell their life stories. About Peter StickneyI have always been a visual person. I often take things apart and put them back together again just to see how they work. When I was in 4th grade, I learned to operate the 16 mm projector. Frequently I would be asked to leave my class and help a teacher in another room with either showing a film or fixing a jam or broken film. Soon, I became fascinated by filmmaking, and in my early 20s, I watched MTV videos for hours, slowly absorbing the creative techniques used to tell the stories of songs visually. I did my first video editing at the age of 13. My home church was quite new and Mr. Martin the master of the church public address system had filmed the construction 5 years earlier on 8 mm film and also used a cassette recorder to tape the audio of him talking to people involved in the construction. He asked me to take on the project of creating a synced audio cassette with added music to go with the film of this historic event. I created a master cassette that had music and audio interviews that were synced with the silent film. I never dreamt that 50+ years later there would be technology today that is digital and can accomplish in minutes the project that had taken me so many hours to complete. My aunt encouraged my interest in cameras and photography. Her gift to me when I was 15 were some of her old cameras, an enlarger and developing trays sparked a new interest that has grown to a lifelong passion. I took all my clothes out of my bedroom closet and made that my darkroom. I have been taking pictures ever since.