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Tiburon resident wins fair contest with iPhone shot

It was Jennifer Isaac's first time entering the county fair. She says she was "shocked, excited, elated, jumping up and down" when she heard.

JENNIFER ISAACIn her photo ‘Marin Civic Center Aspect,’ Jennifer Isaac says she looked to capture the building in a way that would offer ‘something a bit different to say about the Civic Center,’ focusing on its arches from above.
Francisco Martinez
By FRANCISCO MARTINEZ · 1 min read

Jennifer Isaac had already finished her docent-led tour of the Marin County Civic Center when she turned back for one last look — and stopped.

“(I) was just struck by the shapes all over again,” the Tiburon resident says of the building, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

She pulled out her iPhone, framed the arches from above and captured what she saw. A little routine editing later — converting to black and white, intensifying the contrast, cropping — and she had a photo. What she didn’t know was that she also had the top prize at the Marin County Fair.

The 71-year-old won for her picture, “Marin Civic Center Aspect,” in the cityscapes and architecture class for monochromatic fine photography at the fair, held July 1-5.

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A version of this story appeared in the July 29, 2026, print edition of The Ark. See something wrong? Request a correction.
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