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About eight years ago, Vugrin's husband gave her a camera for Mother's Day. All she knew about cameras then was that you loaded them with film and hit the button. Neither she nor her husband realized how that present would change her life.
After she received her camera, Vugrin wasn't the best driver — she was photographing mentally as she drove through town. And if she had her camera with her, the stops became numerous. The world in which she had lived for years became a new place, almost as if she was seeing it for the first time. Her children began pointing out photo opportunities if she hadn't seen them, and the family waited while Vugrin documented another facet of her world.
She took classes, joined Caprock Photographers and began entering art shows. As her children moved off to college, Vugrin devoted more time to photography.
She also incorporated it into her work at the Preston Smith Library at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, where her images of the "Wheeler Collection" can be viewed. That collection of medical and pharmaceutical antiques includes the 19th-century French glass leech bowl on Savvy's cover. Some of Vugrin's photos from the collection also are on display at the Lubbock Regional Arts Center this month, and a reception will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the center.
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