{"id":42615,"date":"2013-09-04T13:49:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T18:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=42615"},"modified":"2013-09-04T13:49:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T18:49:41","slug":"wassenberg-camera-club-at-the-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/09\/04\/wassenberg-camera-club-at-the-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Wassenberg Camera Club at the Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rex Dolby<\/strong><\/p>\n

Congratulations to Valerie Adams, who won the Senior Best of Show in the Black and White<\/p>\n

\"Judge<\/a>
Judge James Gabbard, photography professor at IPFW, judged the Van Wert County Fair photography display. He was assisted by Wassenberg Camera Club members. (Photo submitted.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

category, and to Wassenberg Camera Club member Jodi Hattery for earning the Senior Best of Show in Color as well as two first places.\u00a0 Fellow member Rex Dolby achieved a first and third place in the Van Wert County Fair’s Photography Exhibit.<\/p>\n

In the Youth Division, Chris Hattery won Best of Show in Black and White, four first places, four second places and one third place.\u00a0 His sister, Nataley won Best of Show in Color, four firsts and two seconds.\u00a0\u00a0Her brother\u00a0Joshua won a first, a second and six thirds.<\/p>\n

Nine Wassenberg Camera Club members were on hand to record judge James Gabbard’s\u00a0 decisions, place ribbons, turn name tags so they could be read and award $10 to each of the Best of Show winners.\u00a0 When the judging was completed,\u00a0they\u00a0reorganized the display\u00a0at the Fair Board’s request.<\/p>\n

Gabbard\u00a0is well qualified to judge the exhibit.\u00a0 He has been Photography Professor at IPFW University in Fort Wayne since 2005.\u00a0 He also does freelance wedding photography as well as fine art portrait work.\u00a0 Prior to announcing his decisions, he\u00a0studied the\u00a0photos in each category and often commented on why one photo was chosen\u00a0over another.\u00a0 When all the winners had been decided, he stayed to conduct a mini-seminar for those present, discussing how some pictures could be improved and answering \u00a0questions.<\/p>\n

The Wassenberg Camera Club’s next meeting will be Thursday,\u00a0Sept. 12, at 7 p.m. at the Wassenberg Art Center.\u00a0 \u201cFarm Animals\u201d will be the theme for competition in prints and slides that evening.<\/p>\n

If you have any questions about the 36th Annual Wassenberg Photography Exhibit, which will take entries on Sept. 14-15, \u00a0call the art center at 419.238.6837, or download a complete prospectus at: wassenbergartcenter.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Rex Dolby Congratulations to Valerie Adams, who won the Senior Best of Show in the Black and White category, and to Wassenberg Camera Club member Jodi Hattery for earning the Senior Best of Show in Color as well as two first places.\u00a0 Fellow member Rex Dolby achieved a first and third place in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameraclub"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 02:59:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}