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Winner: Becky Spencer, October of the anniversary year (2004?), the  
flying dismount on the offside, vet card already in hand.  She tied  
with Jeremy Reynolds.

The office certainly does solicit photos from the usual shooters,  
Mike.  Sometimes they're looking for something specific, like for a  
man after too many wimmen.

You are so right about the pixelated small cam shots!  Judicious post  
processing can make an image into a cover shot, but has to start with  
decent raw material.  Using a winner's shot on a 100 can sometimes  
mean taking it between 10 am-2 pm, which means contrasty light with  
shadows on rider and horse faces.  <shudder> The shot of Becky was  
taken about 3:30 pm.  The shot of Vicki was taken in the morning  
shade.  The shot of John Crandell was around 10:30 am/yuck, there's  
light on his face but no detail in Heraldic's eyes.

I had a lovely vertical of Kathy Perry I wanted to submit for a  
cover, they were stopped in the creek at Swanton.  Her blonde hair  
blazing in the pool of sunlight along with her horse's face, also  
lit, as he drank.  No helmet.  Alas.  Another time a member submitted  
one of mine of a junior, and the helmet's strap wasn't properly  
adjusted.  Nixed!

Lynne

On Aug 11, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Michael Maul wrote:

> In response to:" But with ALL this talk about the promotion of 100  
> mile rides, why is it that the covers of EN do not reflect the  
> winning horses of the big 100's ????  "
>
> First - there has to be a picture of the winner taken sometime  
> during the day when there's good light.  You don't know they are  
> winners then...
>
> Second - someone has to submit the photo with the photographer's  
> permission to the AERC office as a possible cover picture.  The  
> office doesn't solicit pictures - they just get them sent by members.
>
> The photo is chosen from those submitted on the basis of whether it  
> looks good and can be enlarged to cover size.  Sometimes with the  
> new digital cameras - a photo is submitted that was taken at low or  
> medium resolution to save space in the memory and it looks  
> pixelated at cover size.  I've had this happen after a photo of  
> Julie Suhr at Ft Schellbourne was selected but was medium resolution.
>
> So all these things have to happen for a photo to reach the cover.   
> Plus the rider has to be wearing a helmet if mounted for the photo  
> to be used.
>
> There's certainly been photos from Tevis on the cover but I don't  
> know if the winner ever made the cover.
>
> Mike

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