A. Wayne Ballard Jr.

Age 78 Bethlehem Steel foreman was an accomplished photographer specializing in Baltimore scenes.

Ms. Messick recalled the night Mr. Ballard entered a photo of a Maryland red fox for a club competition.

"I've always wanted to photograph a red fox because I think they're beautiful, and one night, Wayne entered a portrait of one," she said. "It was all furry and looked like it just came from being groomed, absolutely beautiful. When I asked him where he got the image he said his back yard. I still have yet to get a good shot of one."

Elmer H. Wingate Jr., a retired insurance salesman and fellow Poly classmate, said, "Wayne was a great guy and his photography was always so neat and clever." Mr. Wingate, a Stoneleigh resident, owns several prints of his friend's work.

Mr. Ballard also was an accomplished woodworker and gardener. He was an avid theatergoer and concertgoer and longtime subscriber to Center Stage, the old Morris A. Mechanic Theater and the Lyric.

He was a communicant of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer.

Services are private.

Also surviving are a son, David W. Ballard of Churchville; five other daughters, Victoria T. Strand of Towson, Melissa J. Reznick of Baltimore, Jessie E. Albee of Rodgers Forge, Megan T. B. Carlton of Marblehead, Mass., and Louise Becker of Suffren, N.Y.; 17 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

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