Girl’s seaplane photo wins
statewide competition
By Barbara A. Schmitz
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Lauren Rankin with
her prize-winning photo. Photo by Dave Higdon |
Everyone has a favorite
place. But 7-year-old Lauren Rankin’s favorite place, and a photo of
it, won her first-place honors in the statewide "My Favorite
Place" competition sponsored by PTA Reflections in Missouri.
Lauren, daughter of Scott
and Karen Rankin of Kansas City, Missouri, took her winning photo at the
EAA Seaplane Base during the 2006 fly-in and convention. When she heard
about the competition as a kindergarten student, she said she
immediately thought of AirVenture.
"It is my favorite
place," she said.
She said she decided to
enter the photo, taken when she was 6, in black and white since she didn’t
like the greenish hue on the water. Her photo was displayed at the
statewide PTA convention in the preschool-second grade category.
Of all the photos she
entered, why did she choose the seaplane one as her favorite?
"I like to take pictures of all
different airplanes," she said. "But seaplanes are like no
other planes. Seaplanes have water skis on the bottom so they can land
and stay on the water. They’re just cool." |
