Congratulations to Michelle Paulus, winner of this year's Logan County Fair Queen Pageant.

Michelle, a Lincoln resident and a student at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, was selected from a field of seven contestants at the Logan County Fair on August 2. She came by the studio a few weeks ago for her official State competition portraits.

Many thanks to Michelle as well as new pageant director Bethany Rademaker. Bethany (who represented Logan County in 2010) is stepping in for retiring co-directors Deanne Mott and Amy Cherry. It's been a pleasure to work with Deanne and Amy the past several years and I look forward to assisting with Bethany's contestants in the future.

Thanks, Michelle, for letting me make your pictures. I wish you the best at State in January 2017.