Vida and Aeysha Robbs read The Ledger at the Luau of Kaui with two Polynesian dancers while on their honeymoon to Kaui, Hawaii. We appreciate everyone who has taken the time to take a photograph during their travels and submit it for publication. We will make every effort to see that every photo we receive appears in the newspaper.

To help assure your photograph reproduces at the highest possible quality, we offer these tips to keep in mind before snapping the shutter:

1. Avoid using cell phone cameras. That 1.5- or 2-megapixel image might look good on a tiny screen but becomes very distorted and grainy when enlarged for newspaper reproduction purposes.

2. Always check to see where the sun is before taking the photo. It's important to have the sunlight behind the photographer to eliminate shadows.

The Class of 1975 went cruising Sept. 14-18 aboard the Carnival Sensation, visiting Freeport and Nassau in the Bahamas. Pictured with The Ledger are (standing, left to right) Helen Cunningham, Diane Littlejohn, Jerry Wilkins, Carey Pearson and Janet Harris. (Seated, left to right) Rosalyn Camp, Alice Wilkins, Annette Hardy and Claudia Johnson. Class members making their trip but not pictured included Brenda Reed, Sheila Miller, Kathleen Gregory and Ruby Mickles. 3. And speaking of shadows, try to avoid taking photographs under an awning, gazebo, outdoor porch or any other location where a covering will make the area dark. If you can't avoid this type of scenario, don't be afraid to use a flash to "fill" the area being photographed.

Benji Abernathy, London Faust, Lilly Abernathy, Rainey Davidson, Spyder Lewis and Hogan Davidson, grandchildren of David and Lana Parker, read The Ledger while on vacation at Harbor Island. 4. Photos submitted at 200 or 300 dpi (dots per inch) will always reproduce better than those sent at, say, 72 or 90 dpi. An in-focus jpg at 200 dpi usually works out very well.

Good luck and keep those photos coming. E-mail them to either

cody@gaffneyledger.com

or editor@gaffneyledger.com

You can also mail them to The Gaffney Ledger, P.O. Box 670, Gaffney, S.C. 29342; or bring them by the office at 1604 W. Floyd Baker Blvd.

Dr. Larry J. Brooks and some members of Youngs Grove Baptist Church in Blacksburg, took The Ledger with them to Amityville and Freeport, N.Y., on the third weekend in September. Dr. Brooks preached at Holy Trinity Baptist Church in Amityville, where Dr. Robert Abbott is pastor and worshiped Sunday morning at Perfecting Faith Church, where the Rev. Donald McClurkin is pastor. Holding The Ledger is Gwen Jones. Dalton and Macie Wilson toured Arlington National Cemetery while on a trip to Washington, D.C. Mike Moss, Myrtle Moss, Melissa Whiteside and Austin Whiteside read The Ledger at Deerfield Beach.