HUMAN INTEREST
NANCY SAMS
AUGUST 2008
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Petting Charlie

IMAGE CAPTION: This is a Spring time scene at the zoo when the teenage crews are stationed in a common area with various animals for the children, as well as adults, to become acquainted with various zoo inhabitants. While this young girl was willing to pet the snake named Charlie, there were others who shied away. And, more often than not, the children were willing to get very close, but the mothers would not. The idea that the more familiar you are with Mother Nature’s creatures the less fear you will have in the future is at work here.  

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Nancy Sams - Biography

I am a retired Art History teacher and College Dean at a private girl's school and I have just recently celebrated my 50th wedding anniversary and have four children and four grandchildren. I have been involved with Camera Councils in MN and AZ, plus camera clubs where I became active with PSA (1987) but didn’t enter an International Exhibition until the fall of 1990. I keep trying to cut down on time spent running things but haven’t learned to say no, so I find myself currently the Exhibitions Chairman for the Photojournalism Division for PSA and would love to see Human Interest for the PJ Division grow into its own as a major competition. I have competed in 6 PSA Divisions over the years and was probably on the edge of a burnout when I found PJ and EID. Here new realms have opened for me with a new excitement for competition. My latest and continuing project is teaching and working with Adobe Photoshop and then seeing my ‘students’ do well in photography. Having been in front of a classroom for so long, I do love to present interesting programs that I hope are both entertaining and informative. This study group is a new challenge where I hope to learn more about Photojournalism and be challenged to present something that I’m will be proud of. I do love the challenge of learning something new.