The Art Of The Decoy
Ocean County YMCA's 28th Annual Art and Decoy show runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today
The duck decoys lined the tables and bobbed in tanks at the first day of the Ocean County YMCA's 28th Annual Art and Decoy Show at Central Regional High School. Veteran decoy judge Don Dobrosky and his fellow judges made their way slowly up and down the aisles, looking for what makes a winner. Dobrosky has a cardinal rule - does the duck's profile capture the essense of how it would look in real life, in a natural setting? "Everything else is immaterial," he said. It also helps to be a longtime duck hunter, like Dobrosky and many of the other judges. "The hunter sees them consistently, all the time," said Dobrosky, who is vice-president of the New Jersey Wildfowl Carvers Association. "The hunter always comes out right with his evaluation, …
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