If the name sounds familiar, it should. Our good friends of over twenty years, the Melendis, have suffered the worst nightmare all parents can relate to. The abduction and murder of their daughter. Shannon Melendi and my son, Ryan, shared their birthdays in the same week in October. It also happened to be the week the Professional Photographers of Miami held their annual banquet to induct new officers. Luis and I always brought the kids to the banquet and had two birthday cakes for them. We were proud parents watching them grow up.
The loss of such a lovely and vibrant life is bad enough, but to think the confessed killer could get out of prison in just a few years is shocking. Help us to keep Butch Hinton in prison for LIFE as he should be.

Here is the info to send an email to the Parole Board. It’s very important to follow the directions and speak from your heart on behalf of Luis, Yvonne and Monique Melendi.

Emails should be address to: victimservices@pap.state.ga.us

The subject line should be: GDC ID#0001201616 (Colvin C Hinton III)

The subject line is very important as it is the Georgia Department of Corrections Identification number of Hinton.

Thank you for caring and helping us keep him behind bars where he belongs.

To our good friends the Melendis, we love you and support you in this fight.

This is the Winning Creative Class Portrait we did at the Niagara School! How cool is this? This was entirely my students idea…..we just put it all together…..Thanks for the BEST Class Picture Yet!!

Any one recognize this Tough Girl??

Sometimes the trips go hard and sometimes, the trips go easy. This one was a mix…..the lack of sleep and travel were catching up with me and I was fighting a cold, but the good times and friends carried me through the week. Thanks Niagara and Friends!! SCROLL over the images for the captions.

Always thinking of something Creative, Craig Takes Photoshop Actions to new levels of processing. My favorite terrorist of Actions!

Niagara School was too much fun. You can see how tired I was, but while there I felt no pain, but instead the gain from being with warm, talented and creative people days and nights. I can’t wait to share the students paintings with you and all the fun we had. So scroll down and enjoy seeing all the students work here!

Niagara School of Imaging Painting 2006

Most of these students never painted or had a Painter class before Niagara! Isn’t their work awesome?!