Monday, February 21, 2011

Project 365, Day 51. My cousin the cowgirl.



My cousin, Susan wanted to know if I wanted to come to a gymkhana to shoot this weekend.

I of course, said "Yes"!

I then said, "What in the hell is a gymkhana?" It sounds like the name of a bad 80's ninja movie.

But knowing my cousin, I knew it must have something to do with horses. Google proved me right on that. Thanks Google, I didn't show up looking like an idiot with no clue on what I was going to shoot.

So, I borrowed Doug's 200mm f/2 lens (Google THAT why dontcha? See what a beast it is.) grabbed my monopod and a few other lenses I thought might be good for this type of shooting and Emily and I met up with Susan, her horse and her man and I went work.

Work = 2250 shots. Woof. That's 30 and half gigabytes of images. Plus what Emily shot...

I got some awesome stuff. It's hard not to with that camera, lens and that type of subject matter. I haven't even looked at most of them yet. I'll be putting a gallery on my website just for this event.

But for now, a shot of Susan...


The music for the editing and writing today:
Nothin' But a Good Time by Poison
Dream On by Aerosmith (ask me about a good joke relating to this song...)
Yankee Rose by David Lee Roth
Big Time by Peter Gabriel
Renegade by Styx
Can't Get This Stuff No More by Van Halen

It took a while to edit and write today, what can I say?

That's the post for yesterday, stay tuned for today's post!
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7 comments:

  1. RosemaryFebruary 21, 2011 at 7:06 PM

    Susan - you are beautiful! What a joy to see this picture!

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 21, 2011 at 7:09 PM

    Incidentally, no one needs to ask Brian about Dream On - there is absolutely nothing funny about this song or anything relating to it. At all. Really.

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  3. Susan A. HatchFebruary 21, 2011 at 8:34 PM

    Oh, I want to know the joke!

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  4. BrianFebruary 21, 2011 at 8:49 PM

    Well, since you asked....

    When Emily and I were dating, I took her to an Aerosmith concert. They started playing "Dream On" and she says to me: "I didn't know Aerosmith sung this song!"

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  5. Susan A. HatchFebruary 21, 2011 at 9:03 PM

    That's awesome. Although, in her defense, it really doesn't sound most of Aerosmith's stuff...

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 22, 2011 at 5:05 AM

    ::drool:::






    ahem... the Eminem number that uses Dream On in the chorus is good too.

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  7. RosemaryFebruary 22, 2011 at 7:38 AM

    1st single on their 1973 debut album!

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