Weekend Project: Fairs & Farmers’ Market

The end of summer and start of autumn provide many opportunities to venture out to your state or county fair or festival or farmer’s market. Many are free to attend and the hours spent there are fun for the whole family. Best of all, there are many photo ops to be found among the food and foliage, music and rides.

Milking an artificial cow at the state fair.

Preserve the look on your little one’s face the first time he or she saw an eggplant or rode a pony or milked an artificial cow. Consider a nice panoramic photo of the mile-long row of concession stands or the midway lights dazzling in the night sky. One trip to your local Oktoberfest or town hospital’s health and safety fair might not provide a book’s worth of images, but the photos you take will make a great addition to the year’s family photo book.