The lenses of life and profession will come into focus when shutterbug Norm Diamond gives his spiel on "How I Got Here" at Lewisville Grand Theater on May 14. Desktop docs and art aficionados alike can clock in for a 7 p.m. chat, where Diamond dishes on the snags and snaps that shaped his click-worthy career.

Life after X-rays has been picture-perfect for the former interventional radiologist turned photographer, who spun his silver years into silver gelatin. He never had the clicker fever until a Paris memorial grabbed his eye back in '79, leading — some decades later — to a museum exhibit. Since hanging up his lead apron and picking up the lens, Diamond's darkroom magic has turned to themes like loss, and mortality, according to the City of Lewisville, Texas.

Diamond's clicks have captivated me in more ways than one. He's taken on the remnants of bygone lives through his estate sales odyssey, capturing everything from sadness to the smiling ironies of yesteryear's possessions. His knack for finding beauty in the decay even led him to Doug's Gym, an aging bastion of barbells and its nonagenarian owner, securing his work a spot in German publishings, and finalist nods at the Photolucida Critical Mass competitions six times over.

His eye for eloquence in the everyday has landed Diamond's work on the walls of several solo exhibitions, group shows, and into the permanent collection at The Sixth Floor Museum — no small feat for a former doc who made a late-career swerve from physician to photo-finisher.

The talk comes amid the city's ambitious play through the Lewisville 2025 vision plan, pooling resources into cultural heft like the Visual Art League of Lewisville. The plan, and the way the city's art scene is threading it together, can be seen over at LewisvilleGrand.com, or dial them up at 972.219.8446 for the scoop on future events.