A performer is selected from the crowd to be shot from a cannon during the Circus Imagination show at the Marion County Fair held at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)
Kids dressed up as lion tamers, competed to build creative Lego sets and dressed up poultry during Sunday’s Family Day at the Marion County Fair.
The fair was held July 11-14 at the Oregon State Fairgrounds in Salem.
The crowd enjoys the opening ceremony given by the ringmaster of the Circus Imagination at the Marion County Fair held at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)The crowd becomes the performers of the Circus Imagination at the Marion County Fair held at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)The crowd becomes the performers of the Circus Imagination at the Marion County Fair held at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)Rebecca Noordam, Alternate Dairy Princess Ambassador, takes a bite of a cheesecake entry as a judge in the Oregon Dairy Women’s Cheesecake Contest during the Marion County Fair at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)Michelle Blank holds her lemon cheesecake that took first place in the Oregon Dairy Women Cheesecake contest at the Marion County Fair held at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)A Marion County Cloverbud 4H participant in the chicken costume contest held at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)Luke Eckroth starts to set up his landmark style build for the Lego Live build competition during the Marion County Fair at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)The winner of the landmark style Lego build competition, Luke Eckroth, with his creation, Crater Lake, at the Marion County Fair held at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)The second place winner in the landmark style Lego build competition, Japheth Oajaca, with his prize at the Marion County Fair held at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)A canine contestant demonstrates the “swim turn” once the dog grabs the ball out of the box at the end of the lane during a flyball run during the Muddy Paws FlyBall tournament competition held at the Marion County Fair at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)A canine contestant demonstrates the “swim turn” once the dog grabs the ball out of the box at the end of the lane during a flyball run during the Muddy Paws FlyBall tournament competition at the Marion County Fair held at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)A canine contestant runs during the Muddy Paws FlyBall tournament competition held at the Marion County Fair at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)A canine contestant gets a reward before competing in the Muddy Paws FlyBall tournament competition held at the Marion County Fair at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)A canine contestant runs during the Muddy Paws FlyBall tournament competition held at the Marion County Fair at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)A Hampshire pig looks through her pen at the Marion County Fair held at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)Rylee Ferro and her dark cross pig Mille at the Marion County Fair held at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)Emery Clark has a quiet moment with her friend Molly the Nigerian dwarf goat at the Marion County Fair held at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)Rylee Ferro and her dark cross pig Mille head back to pens at the Marion County Fair held at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)The winner of the 4H dairy goat costume contest, Mira Woodward and Oreo in a “Cookies and Cream” themed costume at the Marion County Fair held at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)Autum Rosgen holds Paper, a baby La Mancha goat, in the Marion County 4H dairy goat costume contest at the State Fairgrounds on July 14, 2024. (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)
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Laura Tesler has lived in Salem, Oregon for 20 years and is originally from Flint, MI. Laura has been an underwater photographer for 15 years, and is an avid scuba diver. Topside, she has been taking photographs since age 12, and currently works on assignment for the Salem Reporter, and full time purchasing land for fish and wildlife habitat in the Willamette Valley. Laura attended Oregon State University, and has traveled extensively all over the world and the United States.
