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As we did last year and the year before, Every year, we encourage If there’s interest, we’ll see about we extended this issue both in page count photographers to submit pictures, and getting some time to present a workshop and number of color pages so we could they always come through with some on photography for the Journal at next keep the entire convention coverage in great shots. This year we suffered from an year’s convention. We have lots of color. We try to keep the illustrations embarrassment of riches. I was doing very examples, both good and bad, and some in the same chronology as the text, and well getting through the roughly 3,000 of the bad ones are the most entertaining in earlier years, that meant that events pictures which came my way, when I fired (we won’t print them, but you might find occurring during the latter part of the up the computer one Sunday morning and some of them showing up in PowerPoint convention were illustrated in black and found an e-mail from a contributor saying next July…). white. “I put some pictures of the convention and The Overture trip to Stahls Automotive That just seemed wrong to us, and we the Summer Youth Adventure up on the Museum was a very popular subject, and started looking for ways around it. FTP server…” the cars got a lot of coverage (particularly The solution we hit on was fairly Some? SOME? 1,800 pictures isn’t that green Tucker). There was actually simple. We had reduced our standard “some,” it’s a lot—and then some! more photographic variety there than for issue size from 76 pages to 68, and we In addition to our usual contributors, the organ, the artist, or the other musical anticipated we’d be able to run one issue without whom this issue wouldn’t be instruments. We finally had to give up and each year even shorter—60 pages. We’d possible, we had submissions from some say “no cars.” add those “saved” eight pages to the first-time contributors; Jonathan Kleefield, However, because there was so much September/October issue, which would Rob Thomas, Christopher Ha, and obvious interest and appreciation, we’ve bump it back up to 76 with no net increase Bethany MacNeur, all of whom submitted put together a slideshow of some of the in cost at the end of the year. some absolutely beautiful work, for which best car pictures. You’ll find it on the We also found that printing those added we are very grateful indeed. To keep the ATOS website, www.atos.org. Thanks to eight pages in color would only bump captions as short as possible, you’ll see John Lauter for giving us permission to the cost a couple of hundred dollars. We that we’ve simply put the photographers’ post it. thought that was worth it. initials in the captions, so watch for these Now I’m off for a week onsite with a And this year, it was doubly worth it, folks. client, then about two weeks in Reno with with the three absolutely gorgeous John The upside of having so much to family and friends, and the Best in The Eberson-designed theatres among our choose from is that what you see in these West Rib Cookoff.