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History of
Normajean Normajean is a photographic artist, graphic and web designer, writer, and publisher with national award-winning trophies in graphic design, writing, and photography. Her New York State certified woman-owned business, Reflected Images, Inc., was established in 1982. It serves customers throughout the United States and Canada, and has conducted business in China. |
Tom Jones gets the credit for the inspiration that came to Normajean to create "The Scenes of Syracuse Calendar," No, not that Tom Jones, but a photographer from Maine with the same name as the famous singer. Back in early 1980 Tom Jones was a guest speaker at the Syracuse chapter of The Professional Photographers Society of New York (PPSNY) here in Syracuse. He showed his audience of photographers a black and white calendar of Maine which he had been successfully producing for several years as an adjunct to his studio photography business. Normajean went home from that meeting with the beginnings of a Syracuse calendar whirling around in her head. Why Syracuse? Because she had, for a long time, wanted to photograph the beauty of the city and its surrounding areas that she had come to love and appreciate. Now was the time to make that dream a reality. Taking her camera and traveling around Syracuse — mostly on Sundays— she was able to photograph scenes with virtually no people in them. This was important to her, because she wanted to show the stationary canvas of the beautiful city Syracusans have to live, worship, work and play in — the elements that provide the environmental background for their lives. The first edition (1981) arrived on the scene in November of 1980, just as the Carrier Dome was completed, and just in time for the holiday season. The calendar was published until 1995 when a major account came on board and began taking up the majority of time in Normajean's small, but growing business. A business decision was made to put the calendar to bed for awhile. In 2006, like Rip Van Winkle, she woke the calendar up in time to publish it for 2007 — its 15th edition — and in celebration of Reflected Image's 25th anniversary. For the fourteen years the calendar was in circulation, it was a 'sought-after' publication, with most of the Patrons coming back year after year to be part of the calendar and support it. Year after year people let Normajean know how much they enjoyed the calendars. Some said they kept every single calendar because they loved the photographs and couldn't bear to throw them away! The SEVENTEENTH EDITION of "The Scenes of Syracuse Calendar," as always, is dedicated to all the citizens of this great community who make it what it is. |
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