Saturday, August 23rd

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JAY SELMAN

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Aviation Photography Workshop

•Morning lecture here at Camera Land 10:15am - 12:00 Noon

•We all then relocate to American Airpower Museum at Republic Airport where

Jay will demonstrate his techniques for shooting vintage airplanes.

•We will also be shooting photos of planes, both on the ground and in the air.

Admission is $79.99* for this 2 part event. Limited availability.

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Jay Selman Bio

Jay Selman's passion for aviation dates back to the late 1950s, when Ozark DC-3s and Delta Convair 440s dwarfed the terminal building

in Paducah, Kentucky. He picked up his first camera in 1969 while living on Long Island, for the express purpose of taking pictures of

airplanes. 56 years and dozens of cameras later, he is busier than ever and loving every minute of it.

Jay's passion eventually led him to the US Air Force, a move which changed his life forever. He served two years in England, and another

year and a half in Homestead, Florida. He could not have possibly asked for two better duty assignments to help increase that passion.

In England, he discovered that "plane-spotting" was a serious hobby in the UK and Europe. He also saw and photographed so many

airlines and airliners that he could, until then, only read about. And then, oh, to be at Miami International Airport back in the mid-1970s!

707s and DC-8s were still being widely used by front-line airlines, and there were still plenty of airliners and cargo planes with "Big, round

engines."Jay became a civilian again in 1977 and moved to the Washington DC area. There he quickly joined the Air Force Reserves and was

based at Andrews Air Force Base for four years. Jay also became involved with a local spotting group, the Washington Airline Historical

Society. This in turn opened doors which reshaped his future. In early 1981, Jay walked into the offices of Professional Pilot magazine.

His goal was to get some of his pictures published in a magazine. The editor responded that Jay had some nice pictures, but he did not

have any articles that he could use them for. Jay responded that he would be very happy to write articles to go with the pictures. That is

how Professional Pilot developed its "Commuter Corner" in 1981, and that's how Jay began a 44-year (and counting) career as an aviation

photojournalist. Also in 1981, Jay was hired by Piedmont Airlines as a station agent at DCA. He enjoyed a 35-year career that spanned

a total of five "home" airports, two company bankruptcies, three mergers, and a world of opportunities. In 2005-2006, he was the Managing

Editor of Airliners magazine.

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After he retired from the airline industry in 2016, Jay's "career" took an unexpected turn. One of his favorite sayings is, "It's a lucky man

who hears opportunity knock. It's a wise man who opens the door." Opportunity knocked, and Jay soon discovered new opportunities as

a photojournalist in the warbird community. He became a regular contributor to several of the warbird magazines, and has served as the

editor for Red Alert, the quarterly publication of the Redstar Pilots Association. This, in turn, has led to regular writing assignments with

both Flying and Plane and Pilot magazines. Jay has recently been designated as an official photographer of the Carolinas Aviators

Network, and has begun working with an aircraft paint shop to provide quality photographic services to its customers.

*We will be paying the fee for your entrance to the Air Power Museum.

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