Local woman wins Georgia Grown photo contest

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Local woman wins Georgia Grown photo contest

They weren’t even sure if the queen bee was still alive, but when Stephanie Scott of Scott Family Farm cracked open the hive, friend and photographer Aubrey Amanda Aldridge was right there to capture the moment.

“The picture was taken when the sun was just starting to set,” Scott recalls of the photo.

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