Perry Williams
DC and McGee, boyhood friends, were photographed by Perry Williams more than 40 years ago under the crabapple tree at the old Greer High School.
Perry Williams
Williams photographed "Just More to Love" during a recent trip to Honduras.
Perry Williams
Williams titled this photo of an infant in a hammock "A Dreamer".
Perry Williams
The signature photo of downtown Greer at the corner of Trade and Poinsett.
Williams, a commissioner on the Greer Commission of Public Works, entrepreneur and professor at Clemson University, all but swept the Greer Juried Arts photography contest judged last month. He finished 1-2-3 in “Greer Goes Global” and 1-2 in “Greer – An Upstate Destination”.
The classic photo of DC and McGee, boyhood friends who were adopted favorite sons of Greer by people in all walks of life, dates back 40 years, Williams said.
“I’m still not finished with those guys,” Williams said. “The crabapple tree that they are sitting under at the old Greer High School is emblazoned with names and initials carved into the limbs.”
Williams’s entries of photographed children in Honduras, on a recent visit, are black and white because, he said, “I enjoy processing the negatives, but often don’t get around to making enlargements for a while.”
A wide view of downtown was printed for the first time last month.
Greer Goes Global
Photography
1st, 2nd and 3rd, Perry Williams
Visual Arts
1st, Diana Moscoso
2nd, Anita Funston
3rd, Kay Reid
Photography
Student
1st, Taylor Kathleen Price
Visual Arts
Students
1st, Carson Barrs
2nd, Madison Calvert
3rd Teresa Marie Pruitt
Greer: An Upstate Destination
Photography
1st and 2nd, Perry Williams
3rd,Thomas Ebetino
Visual Arts
1st, Sonny Gray
2nd, Stan Berry
3rd, Diana Moscoso
Student Photography
1st, Mykala Keyser
Visual Arts
1st, Kendall Shea’ Cromer
2nd, Emily Marie Simpson
3rd, Adam Burgess
3rd, Laura Brown