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In picking a photograph for the newspaper we look for a moment, an action taking place within the captured frame that can engage our readers into the story, that something that is the why in which we took and presented the photograph. As photographers this "moment" really has no rules of composition or light – it stands on its own as the engaging idea that makes the photograph. It is even hard to define sometimes, but we know it when we see it.

Obvious moments are two friends caught in laughter seemingly unaware of others around them, less obvious is the look in a cows eye as she is being controlled by a young girl in the arena. Sometimes that moment is just in the way two children stand on a fence to watch the horses going by or the silhouette of a cowgirl texting while riding her horse.

Fair week is a busy week of work for us as we try to get to assigned stories at assigned times while, in between, we look for people doing what they do either working at or enjoying the fair. There are endless possibilities and we only touch a small amount of it with just two staff photographers at The Meadville Tribune.

This collection of photographs are some of what we consider our best pictures from fair week. These are not meant to give a well rounded view of the fair, but simply to share with our readers what we feel was our best work, those pictures that captured that moment that we strive for each day.

To view all of the slideshows from fair week we have combined them all together here in one place. Simply click on the red icon beneath each day below to see some of what we saw that day.

Pre-fair and opening Saturday

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