Local News in Brief : Countywide : 2 Days in the Life of Orange County

More than 50 photographers fanned out over Orange County on Friday to spend 48 hours capturing the people and places that make up the county.

The 48-Hour Photo Project will result in an exhibit that will be part of Orange County’s yearlong centennial celebration, scheduled to begin Aug. 1, said Stan Sholik, one of the organizers. Major sponsors of the centennial celebration include the Santa Margarita Co., the Irvine Co., American Airlines, Disneyland, the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register. Some of the photographs may be published in a book to raise money for the Orange County Centennial Scholarship Fund, he said.

Sholik said he hopes that the exhibit will “show the ethnic diversity, the geographic beauty and the interaction of people and environment in Orange County.”

The photographers, all volunteers from Orange County, are expected to take more than 50,000 photographs in the two days of shooting at 150 locations.

They will shoot “everything from soup kitchens to high-technology manufacturing,” said Sholik, who woke up at 3 a.m. Friday to take pictures of Huntington Beach workers preparing catering trucks for a day of service.

“They get to take photographs of things they’ve always wanted to shoot,” said Loren Price, another organizer. “Everyone is on a cloud when they do this. They love it.”