You pick best cover photo

Picking a cover image for our main story each issue is a big challenge. It mist fit  in the square shape. And it works best if it immedietly tells you, our readers, what the main story is about.

Our art director Shane Jackson decided a child eating a baked potato or French fries would make a good cover. We invited several friends with young children to  come to the photo studeo of Mark LaMoreaux in Moscow.

Shane also ordered a couple dozen baked potatoes, trimmings, and a sturdy supply of French fries as photo props. Then our young friends gamely ate or played with potatoes while Mark shot digital images.

Here we share with you the final choices our art director chose from dozens of images photographed. Please vote for your favorite image.

And our special thanks to our young models and their families for helping us come up with our Summer 2008 potato cover!

--Mary Ann Reese, editor