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An Extra Photographer or Videographer without Breaking the Budget

by AgCommNetwork | May 8, 2025 | Photography, The ByLine

By Wyatt Bechtel, ACN Board Member Doing more with less is something we’re all accustomed to. Shrinking budgets for travel makes it critical to capture as many visual assets as possible when we’re out in the field. Something I started doing to be more efficient on...

Clicking to the Top: My Path to ACN Photographer of the Year

by AgCommNetwork | Apr 11, 2025 | Awards, Photography, The ByLine, What I Learned

By Katie Knapp, ACN board member I took my first photography class 20 years ago on the first floor of Bevier Hall at the University of Illinois. The late Bob Siebrecht taught me about the exposure triangle, how to use all the dark room equipment, and that every good...

Sensational Switzerland

by AgCommNetwork | Apr 10, 2025 | Photography, Professional Development, The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned

By Harlen Persinger Switzerland, officially The Swiss Confederation, is geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau, the Alps and the Jura. The Alps occupy the greater part of the territory. Most of the country’s 8.5 million people are concentrated in the plateau...

Patrico’s book checks in on the gap between urban and rural cultures

by AgCommNetwork | Nov 8, 2024 | AAEA News, Photography, Professional Development, The ByLine, Travel, Uncategorized

By Bill Spiegel, Byline editor Longtime ACN member Jim Patrico revisits some of the stories from his stellar career in a new book,  “Dispatches from Farm Country: A Journalist’s decadeslong search for the soul of rural American in a changing world”. Patrico has earned...
How To Win Next Year’s Photo of the Year

How To Win Next Year’s Photo of the Year

by AgCommNetwork | Oct 10, 2024 | Awards, News, Photography, Professional Development, The ByLine, What I Learned

By Steve Werblow, Owner of Steve Werblow Communications Want to know how to become the next Photo of the Year recipient? We asked this year’s winner, Steve Werblow of The Furrow, what his photography secrets are, how he won the awards this year, and what impact it has...

Norway’s Alpaca Lady

by AgCommNetwork | Apr 12, 2024 | Freelance, Photo Essays, Photography, The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned

By Harlen Persinger, ACN Board Member Liz Aitken has always had an unlimited passion for knitting. Through her devoted association with this activity, the native of Plymouth, England, recently stepped into another arena—developing a keen interest in and working...
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