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Award Winning Photos
From the Bow Post
The Medicine Bow Post attained five
national newspaper awards and almost 50
state newspaper awards. Here are four
of the award-winning photos, all taken
by David L. Roberts, during those
years.
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The first award that Medicine Bow Post
ever received from the Wyoming Press
Association contest was for this pictorial
photograph of Chace Reservoir, taken in
July 1979. The photo received a
first-place award as well as a "Special"
award given to only the top three
newspaper photos from the Wyoming Press
Association for that year. I remember
taking this photo while on a fishing
excursion at Chace Reservoir, west of
Medicine Bow. Harry and Loree Chace were
very kind in allowing me to occasionally
escape my newspaper duties and fish at
such a beautiful place. One of the photo
judges commented that my darkroom work of
"dodging" was very good. "Dodging" is a
photo darkroom technique for adding or
subtracting light in areas of the photo as
the print process is occurring. The only
problem was that, at the time, I didn't
even know what "dodging" meant and hadn't
done any enhancements to the photo in the
darkroom process. The sky was dark because
one of those summer thunderstorms was
moving into the area.
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A black-and-white version of this color
photo of Paul Fultz of Medicine Bow (and
Como Bluff), taken in October 1985, won a
first-place portrait award from the
Wyoming Press Association. One of the best
qualities of people whose friendships I
have enjoyed in Medicine Bow and other
places is a sense of humor. Paul Fultz had
a great sense of humor. Paul served as a
county sheriff's deputy when I knew him in
Medicine Bow. As the local newspaperman,
sometimes I would travel with Paul and
Jody Fultz concerning law
enforcement-related news stories. We had
many interesting journeys down county
roads.
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This photo of a train slowly appearing
through the smoke of a prairie fire near
Hanna won an honorable mention photo award
from the Wyoming Press Association. I
called the photo "Lines" because there are
railroad lines and telephone lines. In
taking the photo, I shot toward the sun,
which is not usually a good idea for
photographs. But because the smoke reduced
the intensity of the sun, the telephone
lines and railroad lines were then
brightly illuminated, allowing the "lines"
effect to dominate the image.
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This photo of Brett Hytrek of Lusk, Wyo., taken
in 1983, won a first-place photo award from the
Wyoming Press Association. The photo judges said
they liked the photo because of the elements of
action, the balance within the photo, and the young
man's determined expression. And, with perfect
cowboy aim, he did lasso the can, too.
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