Klemme, a professional photographer from Enid, is working under tight deadlines to complete a photographic portrait of Oklahoma in time for next year's centennial celebration.
His project, the Oklahoma Centennial Photographic Survey, is sanctioned by the Oklahoma Centennial Commemoration Commission. The result will be a book that should be on store shelves in spring 2007, and a traveling exhibition that Klemme said will make its first stop that summer at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
"My goal is to shock and awe -- shock people outside our state