Snapshots of Milledgeville

Students participate in Digital Bridges initiative

Students are getting the opportunity to exercise their creativity behind the camera and help the local economy at the same time.

Digital Bridges and Shoplocalmilledgeville.com are heading up an initiative to take pictures of local business to put up on the website.

Tommy Cook, the program developer for Digital Bridges and the creator of shoplocalmilledgeville.com, came up with the idea to create this initiative to help promote the local businesses in a more visual way.

“Many of the businesses have not uploaded their own photos, so we decided to turn the photo galleries into tour galleries, or a ‘virtual tour,’” Cook said.

Cook is a proponent of the local economy because he says the money will stay in the community and help improve it. In order to make people more interested in shopping in Milledgeville, he wants to get pictures of the businesses.

The initiative is now an event on Facebook, which is how many people have been finding out about it.

Stephanie Jinright, a biology graduate student, likes the idea because it will give even amateur photographers like her an opportunity to practice taking pictures.

“I am hoping to do the event if I have spare time after finals,” Jinright said.

She is excited to see how the virtual tour turns out even if she can’t participate.

Sophomore pre-mass communication major Michele McGuire likes photography and she agrees with Jinright.

“It is a great chance for aspiring photographers to contribute their artwork to the betterment of our flourishing college town,” McGuire said.

Junior exercise science major Nadia VanZyl believes that taking pictures of businesses in Milledgeville is a good idea, but she doesn’t know if she’ll have time to do it.

“I’m sure my friend who is really into photography will do something for it,” VanZy said.

Cook wants as many photographs and photographers as possible.

“We need to assemble a team of photographers to take pictures of the 700+ businesses/attractions that have found an online presence (the site),” Cook said.

The only thing needed for the photographs to be submitted is permission obtained from the owners of the businesses.

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