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06/01/2009 11:50:35 PM · #1 |
Hold on to your hat, here's  snaffles' FUBAR!
Asparagus or broccoli, as a macro subject? As food? As a weapon?
Asparagus vs broccoli....Asparagus is way cooler looking than broccoli, very streamlined and little bits of purple in the colour scheme there too, whereas broccoli always looks like green dustbunnies. Broccoli is so...generic. Besides, I can't grow broccoli in my garden, but I can grow asparagus. I like things that are in season, and you can't get fresh asparagus year-round up here. In terms of weaponry...well, when did you last here of someone being injured by a floret? Spear, baby! Gimme asparagus any day, even if it does make your pee smell funny! :-)
Where did that brownie recipe go?
Brownie recipe...herrreeeeee brownies brownies brownies...I think it's hiding somewhere here on the Base Camp thread. Max and I bribed Ralph the use of his studio with a pan of brownies, by the way. Little less known is the fact that Ralph had me include a handful of jellybeans in the mixture! Made for some mighty sugary/chewy brownies!
What kinds of horses make the best photography subjects? Do you have a favorite breed, or a favorite horse?
What horses make best photography subjects...hmm. Tough one. Any horse can make a good subject, and if you have a good handler to hold or control the beastie while you're taking shots, so much the better. When I was a kid my favourite breed was the Arabian, mostly just because they are so fiery and noble, the world's oldest breed. The only horse I ever owned was an Arabian. Favourite horse on a personal level? I would have to say Brio, a 1/2 Clyde 1/2 Thoroughbred cross mare. She's smart, adores me and is fun to ride bareback, what more can I say?
If you're going to look at a breed for photography subjects, I would have to say Arabians. I grew up looking at Arabian Horse World magazine, which was in the local pet store where I spent hours and hours messing around with the critters. As it so happened the store owner also owned and bred Arabian horses, so the very first horse poster on my bedroom wall as a kid was of her stallion, Amurath Elan. Ironically, the same woman lives only a 20-min drive from me!
As to why Arabian horses: They are bred to have a certain refined look to them in terms of body and head; they like to curve their necks in a dramatic fashion; breed standards call for a long flowing mane and tail; and the breed tends to be on the smallish side, so they're easy to frame. They are alo very, very intelligent and thus easy to train. And when they run they like to lift their tails and have them flying out behind them like banners. See  cristy and lynnesite for examples.
How is photography like a chained wheel?
Hmm. Well, the chains are there to help you get out of the muck and mire, so I suppose that would be an analogy for the use of light in photography. Wheels are round (mostly) and don't do much but go round. So that would be the aperture. And the f-stop would probably be the effin' idjit driving the tractor too fast or too slow! :-)
Most entertaining horse story?
This is tough! I've ridden and worked with so many memorable horses and ponies that I really have trouble pinning it down to one.
OK, here's a story about me and Hotshot, the only horse I ever owned. I was living in NW BC, in a town called Terrace, when I came upon and ended up owning Moab Khalid (his registered name) as a bright, snotty, button-pushing 4-yr old. I kept him at a friend's place for $50/month board...you won't see that nowadaya.
While living in this part of BC I had a gourmet mustard business, and I would pay local kids 5 cents for each label they cut out for me, as I couldn't afford to have them die-cut by the printers. So I was riding Hotshot around the neighbourhood to various kids' houses, with a change purse jammed full of dimes and nickels and quarters. As was my usual habit, I was riding him bareback.
Anyway, we were trotting peacefully along a dusty path in an open area when Hotshot got it into his smart little head that he didn't feel like trotting anymore, he wanted to canter! So he picked up the canter and was going along nicely...but with each rocking-horse canter stride, that fat change purse in my pocket jounced more and more. I quickly realized it was going to come flying out, and had to slow Hotshot down before -
Well, in the next split second the change purse flew out of my pocket, hit the ground, and burst open. I stopped Hotshot, jumped off, yelled something like 'You dumbass! Look what happened because of you!' at a very contrite horse. I grumbled at him while I picked up about $5 worth of change from the dust. He did try to help, though, and snuffled through the dirt and tried to pick up the change with his very prehensile lips. Finally I got back on him and he was very, very careful to not go any faster than a walk for the rest of the ride.
This was also a horse who thought pickup trucks were for drag-racing, and had a favourite piece of pine tree that he would pick up and carry around in his mouth. He'd also steal my friend's cowboy hat and carry it, but be careful to never drop it and eventually would return it.
If you were to retake this shot, what would you do to change it?
I would have waited again, as I did, til golden hour. Then probably closed down a few stops to 5.6 or 7.1 and shot at 1/40...then either got the owner to move it so there was a less cluttered b/g to shoot it against. And yeah, if I had a fisheye I'd be right down there under that left front bumper, shooting up.
Provide a story for this image. Be creative.
Once upon a time there was a from the 1960s, and in that car was a bench-type car seats, that had been treated with super-duper protective plastics to protect the headrests and kickguards. The car lived a long and happy life on salt Spring Island, BC, where it was driven by happy young hippies until they became happy old hippies who lived on the Island's north end, sleeping on a mattress in the shade of an old-growth Douglas Fir. It should be noted that the hippies greatly enjoyed their time spent *ahem* hanging out in their car, even long after it could be driven, and had a tremendous amount of offspring.
Then one day, after one pipe of super-potent BC Bud too many, the happy old hippies went to the Happy Hunting Grounds in the sky. Many tears were shed by the prodigious amounts of offspring and many joints were passed in their honour around the weekly campfire, where they roasted tofu hotdogs and sang Willie Nelson songs.
Finally, the lawyers asked the kids what they wanted done with their parents' estate, including the old car slowly rotting into the ground. A few joints were sparked and passed around the campfire that night (it WAS an energency meeting after all) and finally, the kids agreed to part with the carcass of the car.
BUT...seeing that so many of them had been conceived on those bench seats, and so many of them rememebered getting their first taste of mushroom tea and/or mother's milk while daddy drove, that they asked the front seat be removed and placed at the trailhead where their parents met, as a sign of ever lasting remembrance. Now, to this day, hikers in that part of Salt Spring Island pass the slowly rotting car seat, and wonder how long it's been there, and why...and now you know.
OH yes, the prodigious sums of children now run the local Thrifty's supermarket, the gas station, work for BC Ferries and approximately 70% of the island's estimated 200 B&Bs. And they all live happily ever after. |
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06/02/2009 12:03:13 AM · #2 |
| A toss-up between the horse (Moab Khalid/Hotshot) and car (SSI!) stories. |
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06/02/2009 01:15:50 AM · #3 |
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06/02/2009 09:49:48 AM · #4 |
| Susan why o why are you not writing stories and taking photos to go with the book, you made a raining Tuesday morning fun. |
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06/02/2009 12:00:38 PM · #5 |
Susan, this is a fact about you that I find fascinating:
I had a gourmet mustard business
I really like this new feature of team suck. |
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06/02/2009 12:08:50 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by BAMartin:
Susan, this is a fact about you that I find fascinating:
I had a gourmet mustard business
I really like this new feature of team suck. |
Thanks Barbara! I started it up with a $10k government grant after I left the radio station where I was working. That's how I ended up in NW BC in the first place, writing crappy ad copy for a crappy broadcaster, who no longer exists! :-) |
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06/02/2009 01:12:05 PM · #7 |
| Wonderful interview, Susan! I agree that you ought to write a book. :-) |
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06/02/2009 02:26:40 PM · #8 |
Well ummm now that y'all are mentioning the book-writing thing....maybe it is time I started writing again.
I began writing for pleasure at age 6 and continued to do so all the way up til I was in my early 30s, just short stories mostly, for fun and because I always felt I was expected to be the one to fill my late aunt's shoes (long story). Had essays published in The Globe and Mail, worked as a copywriter and editor, never really bothered tried to submit short stories though.
Then took up writing and performing poetry in bars (aw s*8t now someone's gonna want to see a poem, aren't they? :-) and did some slam poetry too. And finally finished working on a novel which, although it got high praise from an independent third-party editor whom I hired to poke holes in it, I never did submit to an agent. The copies of the manuscript sit tucked safely away in storage, and every so often I entertain the idea of digging it out and reworking it, but know it's just an excuse to edit it to death. After so many years I still feel the sting of having my novel condemned by someone who barely made it into chapter 2.
Then I ended up moving back east and give myself the convenient excuse of being too busy. Every so often a family member does ask if I still write. I tell them I switched to photography instead, because there are no photogs of note in the family tree...
sorry for the rambling...
Message edited by author 2009-06-04 10:41:18. |
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06/02/2009 02:35:58 PM · #9 |
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06/02/2009 02:45:47 PM · #10 |
| Very interesting Susan! You'd be a fun neighbor! |
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06/03/2009 10:09:18 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by Doyle:
Very interesting Susan! You'd be a fun neighbor! |
Aw gosh durn thanks :-) |
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