This award-winning photo by Sun photographer Hans Marx is one of my favorites. I was reminded of it when I read a March 1, 2009 article in the Baltimore Sun by reporter Stephanie Desmon. The headline read, "Goodbye country doctors - Maryland rural areas face a crucial shortage of physicians, and legislators seek remedies before situation grows even worse."

This photo, which has the feel of a Norman Rockwell painting, was taken in 1952. The picture shows Dr. E. Paul Knotts of Denton, Md. attending the newborn baby of an Eastern Shore farm family. The Sunday Sun Magazine, on March 30, 1952, ran a profile of Dr. Knotts, who was chosen Maryland's first Family Doctor of the Year.

This photo actually didn't run with the article in the Sun Magazine. It made its appearance in the Evening Sun on February 3, 1953, when it won a family life photo contest. This was aong several photos that helped Hans Marx win the title of Newspaper Photographer of the Year for 1953. The photo of Dr. Knottts was also displayed at the Smithsonian in 1954 and as part of a book of photographs titled "A Century in The Sun," that was published in 1999.

Hans Marx always considered himself a "photojournalist" and this photo prooves he surely was.