August 2019 Issue of Varsity Monthly Thumb Magazine

Owner Jason Parmenter
Magazine Design Alissa Klee
Photo Editor Kaitlin Gunsell
Office Manager Brenda Tomlinson
Regularly Contributing Photographers
Kaitlin Gunsell - Kaitlin’s Klicks
Brittany Stilson - BLS Photography
Gary Koelzer - Gary Koelzer Photography
Jason Parmenter - Quad N Productions
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Inside
What’s
5 VG's Players of the Month
6 Brown City
7 Millington
8 Caro
10 Bad Axe
12 Cros-Lex
13 Harbor Beach
14 Cass City
16 Frankenmuth
18 Reese
20 Kingston
21 Bay City All Saints
22 Sandusky
24 North Branch
25 Peck
26 Caro
28 Lakers
29 North Huron
30 Vassar
32 Mayville
33 Akron-Fairgrove
34 Cass City
36 Deckerville
37 Owen-Gage
38 All Star Baseball
40 Marlette
42 Ubly
44 USA
46 CPS
47 Caseville
Featured Photographer
COVER IMAGE: Brown City football
participating in the North Branch 7 on 7
on 7-9-17. Photo by Jason Parmenter
Gary Koelzer has been involved with photography since about 1980. While in high
school, he loved taking pictures at the sporting events, and learned to develop the film
and print pictures in the darkroom. After high school, Gary began selling cameras at
a camera store, and went to college to study photography and journalism. With that
knowledge, he was able to open up a photography studio with two partners.
Gary became an assistant for a high end architectural photographer out of Detroit
where he learned how the best become the best. They shot everything from multimillion
dollar homes, to stadiums, and businesses. This was all prior to the digital age,
so getting things right in camera was critical. Gary then spent 4 years as a corporate staff photographer for a
nationwide construction company. He specialized in portraits, industrial, aerial, architectural, as well as specialty
photography and video.
Once digital photography came along, Gary jumped into the digital age and began shooting his children’s sporting
events. After he took his son’s senior pictures, he began to receive inquiries from other seniors for photos. That
lead to where Gary is today, running his own photography business specializing in high school senior portraits,
weddings, families, as well as commercial photography.
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