PHOTO: A Goodbye To Carolyn Yaschur
August 4th, 2009 by Derek Sheppard
After eight years, Kitsap Sun photographer Carolyn Yaschur has left
the Sun for the much sunnier confines of Austin, Texas. She’s
headed back to school to get her PhD and plans on becoming a
professor.
Perhaps more than any other position in the newsroom, photographers really are the public face of the newspaper. Reporters often work on stories from behind a telephone, dialing cell phones and writing “webbies” as news breaks. But photographers have to be there, so people get to know them. Firefighters know them when they roll up to the scene and parents and kids know them when they’re shooting high school sports.
Carolyn put in fewer years than stalwarts Steve Zugschwerdt (retired) and Larry Steagall. But she’s been around long enough to get to know an awful lot of you. We’ll miss her around the newsroom, too.
I included this photo of the duck race in Silverdale because, well, it’s maybe the one thing it seems Carolyn shot every year.
- Derek Sheppard
Tags: Carolyn Yaschur, duck race, Photos
Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group
August 4th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Bye, Carolyn. Thanks for all of the great pic’s you have provided over the years for our enjoyment. Best of luck to you in Texas.
August 4th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I got to meet her briefly at a Olympic College Basketball game, very nice lady! Thanks for the great images over the years! Good luck!
August 4th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Dear Carolyn:
I wish you more than luck. Shoot first, ask questions later.
Your pal,
Andy Binion
August 4th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
With the picture selection, one would think you were going to Oregon (the ducks) rather than Austin, Texas.
Best wishes.
August 5th, 2009 at 6:07 am
Carolyn, it was a pleasure to work with you and to know you. I wish you the very best of luck in your future!
Jim W. Coleman
August 5th, 2009 at 9:08 am
The Kitsap Sun and its readers will miss your excellent work. Best of luck in Texas. You won’t get pizza like the Jersey Shore.
August 5th, 2009 at 9:33 am
I will miss you! You were a great volunteer for the Selective Sim Program and I thank you for all the times you came out to shoot or events and programs!
Chriss Kuykendall
August 5th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Carolyn! While I’m so sorry to learn that we won’t run into one another around town anymore, I’m thrilled (for you) to read that you’re pursuing your dream. Austin, I hear, is the best town in Texas. But is it a good place for dogs?
August 5th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Best wishes, Carolyn, now and future.
I also, enjoyed your photos. I’ve never met you but you must be a terrific person as well as photographer to get “Binion here” off his bike and out in front of God and everybody.
Your future students will find a perceptive professor with a good eye.
Sharon O’Hara
August 5th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Carolyn — I’ll miss you! I so enjoyed working with you on various stories over the years, and getting to know you personally. I’m not surprised you were courted by this excellent university, and I know your contributions to academia and your field will be major and appreciated. Enjoy the halls of academia…and best wishes, Carolyn!
Ann
August 6th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Carolyn, the Sun and its readers will greatly miss your work. Best of luck in the future. I personally got a ridiculous amount of enjoyment regarding your work on the local Iditorod musher story last year. So thanks.
August 8th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Thank you everyone. I just pulled into Austin yesterday. I’m excited to be here, but miss Kitsap County and the Kitsap Sun already! I’ve really enjoyed living and working there and hope this new chapter is as fulfilling as the last. Hook ‘em, Horns!
Please keep in touch!
Carolyn
August 15th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Wow, hard to believe it’s been that long since Carolyn left NJ to head to PNW. She’s an amazing talent, and a great friend, too. Best of luck to you on this next journey.
Drop me a line–lots to talk about!
Jack Howard
Adorama Camera
October 6th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
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January 11th, 2010 at 6:49 am
This photo is an amazing choice to say “good bye” to Carolyn. It seems to be a duck separate from the others and it could be telling the others good by. Good choice.