Picture
North
Carolina
A Statesville photographer was the winner of $200 and cap
tured the "Best In Show" title during the first annual Picture
North Carolina black and white print competition held Satur
day at the Hoke County libfttOff
The show, which is being sponsored by The News-Journal
and other area businesses, will be on display at the library
through May.
A candid shot of Red Skelton taken during an appearance
in Greensboro last year was selected by three judges from 47
other photographs as the winner of the Southern National
Bank Purchase Award and the Hoke County Library People
Award. ...??
Marty Harris, who is the naff photographer for the
Statesvllle Record, took th$ shot with a NikortfM camera us
ing existing light and a 200 millimeter lens.
The 22-year-old Harris hss been with the newspaper for
four years. He entered four other photographs in theshow^
Jfjgris captured a ^ great ftoMtt of a free we all knoftf*
judge Jock Lauterer said.
, "It is an insightful image that lets the viewer know tfcat
Best In Show ? An evening with Red
Judge Bob Nelson noted that Harris had obtained an ex
cellent technical quality in the shot of Skelton.
The runner up in the "People" category was a photograph
taken by Graham Williams of Elkin of an elderly man lighting
a pipe. ./ "y
Williams received an honorable mention award of $10 for
the photograph.
Williams shot', '"Pause for a light/ captures a fragment of
time which doubtlessly has been repeated in the life of the old
pipesmoker," Nelson said. ;
A photograph entitled "Kathy's Playground," which was
taken by Susan May of Raleigh, was Judged the best in the
"Creative" category and given thft$50 Raeford-Hoke
Chamber of Commerce award.
Kathy's Playground is "a nice Zen Vision of the shadows in
sand," Lauterer said.
y Varina was awarded the
Creative category for an un
deteriorating building.
'Mfelirtl Historical North
the QE1I under con
formerly of Hoke County,
HUoi the United Carolina Bank
Glen
won both
"October," Sides' photograph of a wide expanse of pump
kins, was called an "exceptional" print by Allen, and all three
judges noted that it was nicely composed.
"Winter Splendor," also* taken by Sides, place second in
the category.
Another former Raeford native, Lin Webb, who now lives
in Fayetteville, won the Southeast Production Credit Associa
tion Award for wildlife photography.
Webb's photograph of an owl was judged the best in the
category, and Lauterer noted that the bird had a "great
face."
Judge Bob Allen is the publisher and editor of the Wake
Weekly. He has won numerous awards for photography in
both state and regional competition. He is a consistent winner
of North Carolina Press Association photo awards.
Jock Lauterer is the former publisher of the McDowell Ex
press in Marion. He recently sold the weekly and
now teaches photo-journaHsm at the Univtrrfty^&f North
Carolina at Chapd Hill.
. Lauterer's book, Wouldn't Take Not/dug for My Journey
Carolina Press, $
North Carolina
Nelson is the Superintendent of Schools for Hoke I
?ndan avid photographer.
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