Sun Magazine

He'd been watching that tree for months. In the summer, the sunlight would seem to flicker through the leaves of the flowering cherry just beyond the front door of his house in Bel Air. As the weather cooled, he studied the changes in the light. By day. By night. He'd waited for the right moment."I'd been saying, 'I need to take a picture of that tree' for a long time," says Jack Riggin. "It's something you practice; it's a habit you get into. Constantly, you're looking when you go out to the car, whenever you go, you're looking for a picture.

Like father, like son. Or is it the other way around? For the first time in memory two people from the same family have won prizes in Sun Magazine's annual photo contest -- Baltimorean Karl G. Franz, a pre-press manager for a printing firm, and his son Max, a student at Archbishop Curley High School. But that wasn't the only surprise in this year's contest. For the first time, the grand prize went to an entrant in the 16 and Under category. That would be Max, who was pretty cool about his double good fortune.

ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, SHOOT! THE SUN MAGAZINE'S ANNUAL snapshot contest begins today and ends at midnight, Aug. 12. Just send your best black-and-white or color photos to the Sun Magazine Photo Contest. Six winners will receive $250; one also will be awarded a grand prize of $1,000. Winning snapshots will be forwarded to the Kodak International Newspaper Snapshot Awards (KINSA) to compete for prizes totaling more than $52,500.In the 1990 KINSA finals, 200 $50 Special Merit Awards will be given.

Time's running out for would-be entrants in the Sun Magazine's annual snapshot contest. Entries must be in by midnight, Aug. 12. Just send your best black-and-white or color photos to the Sun Magazine Photo Contest. Six winners will receive $250; one also will be awarded a grand prize of $1,000. Winning snapshots will be forwarded to the Kodak International Newspaper Snapshot Awards (KINSA) to compete for prizes totaling more than $52,500.1. Only amateur photographers are eligible. Anyone who derives less than 5 percent of his or her income from photography is considered an amateur.

Ready, set, flash! It's time once again for Sun Magazine's Photo Contest. The categories this year are abstract (the artist's view), landscape and portrait.One color and one black-and-white winner will be chosen in each of the three categories. We also will choose one junior winner from among all the entries sent by people age 16 and under. Photographs will be accepted through Friday, July 21. The winners will receive $250 each; one also will be awarded a grand prize of $1,000. As usual, winning photos taken on Kodak film and printed on Kodak paper will be forwarded to the Kodak International Newspaper Snapshot Awards (KINSA)

It's the moment amateur photographers have been waitin for: opening day in Sun Magazine's Photo Contest. The categories this year are abstract/still life, landscapes and portraits. Strive for artistic merit rather than sentimental value.One color and one black-and-white winner will be chosen in each of the three categories. We also will choose one junior winner from among all the entries sent by people age 16 and under. Photographs will be accepted through Friday, July 15. The winners will receive $250 each; one also will be awarded a grand prize of $1,000.

Everything starts over on New Year's Day. It's a milestone, a time to both reflect on the past and ponder the future. It's a time for taking stock of our lives and perhaps for charting a new course. For many of us, New Year's Day represents hope.The following people were all profiled in Sun Magazine in the past three years. Though their stories were diverse, a sense of hope permeated them all, a sense of the human spirit surviving.Today is a good day to revisit these people, to see where their lives have taken them, to see if they are on the way to realizing their hopes and dreams.

William L. Klender, an award-winning photographer whose images of life in Maryland graced the old Sunday Sun magazine for decades, died Tuesday of pneumonia at Ellicott City Health and Rehabilitation. He was 90. Mr. Klender, the son of a printer, was born in Baltimore and raised in Irvington. He was a graduate of Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Klender's interest in photography and film began early in his life, and by the time he was 16, he had made his first motion picture. "It was a black-and-white movie that featured his younger sister and scenes of home life.

David Boone McElroy, a graphic designer and former art director of the old Sun Magazine, died of multiple sclerosis June 28 at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Parkville resident was 54. Mr. McElroy was born in Baltimore and raised in Northwood and Parkville. He was a 1972 graduate of Calvert Hall College High School and studied graphic design at what is now Towson University and the Professional Institute of Commercial Art in Reisterstown. He began his career in the early 1970s, at Towson University as assistant to graphic designer Mike Dunne.