One of the neat things about this year's Miss Meadville Area Pageant was the use of projected images on stage as the girls went by. This years winner of the Miss Outstanding Teen crown, Abby Phillips walks into the path of the projected image of herself, taken a month earlier in a photoshoot, during the competition on 11/28. In my early day of photography I often project slides on people and photographed that. It was mostly black and white work and some of the affects were nice, but never anything special. Then years later I tried it again only with color slide film and got better, but still only ok results. This, being a live event where you capture just what you can, was a little more successful(though I'm sure not commercially so) with the queen hopefuls moving in and out of the light. Certain slides worked better than others. Some created a moody light like the one of Abby above, while others created patterns that were interesting like the ones in the slideshow at http://sayermotterphotography.weebly.com/miss-meadville-area-pageant-112809.html. or the one of Brooke Cozzens below. Photographs by Richard Sayer