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Million Dollar Ponies
September usually roles into my life with predictability, beginning with the start of UK football, Natalie’s Birthday, and the Keeneland Sales. Here a few images from the opening day of the Keeneland September Yearling Sales, where some thoroughbred colts are auctioned off for well over a million dollars.
New Student Days
Here is some work that I did for Eastern a couple of weeks ago during their New Student Days.
A daughter never loves her Dad as much as she does the day that he packs a refrigerator up ten flights of stairs to her new dorm room. And Dad does it with a tired broken down back and tears in his eyes because his baby girl leaving home.
This young lady will have to wait a few years before Ole Dad packs a refrigerator up the stairs.
2012 RV Trip: California Vol. I
Gale and Judy took us on a month-long RV trip across the southern part of the United States in the summer of 2010. We went from Stanton to Dallas, to San Diego, up to L.A., over to Vegas, on across Southern Utah and Northern Arizona, through Denver and Kansas City, and ended the trip in St. Louis.
This year’s trip started in St. Louis, and Kansas City. From there we went north through Iowa and Minnesota, to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Across the Badlands, through Montana and into Yellowstone National Park. Then back up through Idaho and Washington State to Seattle. Then down the coast of Oregon, through the Redwoods of Northern California, to San Fransisco. Over to Yosemite, Reno and Lake Tahoe, to Salt Lake City, to Cheyenne, Wyoming, across Nebraska, back to Kansas City, and we ended the trip once again at a Cardinals game in St. Louis.
*From a photographers point of view, I would love to spend several days shooting each spot that we visited. But in reality, I’m was just a tourist on this trip. So I did the best I could with the light that was in front of me.
U.S. Route 101 is one of the prettiest scenic highways in the country.
The kids climb a stump in the Redwood Forest of Northern California. According to the boys, there was no room for little girls in the middle of the stump, but Laura made it up anyway.
Natalie drives our covered wagon through a 3,000-year-old Redwood.
Well…you see kids, this is a California Hemp Store. Things are different out here. No, the Terminator isn’t governor anymore.
Hanging with Charlie Brown at the Charles Schultz Museum in Santa Rosa.
Natalie has been a huge Snoopy fan all her life. We even have a Christmas tree devoted just to Snoopy each year. Coming to the Shultz Museum was huge on Nat’s Bucket List.
San Francisco Bay
The Bay Bridge leading to Oakland
Apparently, it’s a big deal to swim the bay on Sunday mornings.
The Novato RV Park.
Playing dominoes with Pap in the RV
A wild San Franciscan woman hanging out of a limousine.
The boys represented Kentucky well at the Giants baseball game vs. the Astros. We determined that since the Astros were the worst team in baseball, and have sold off all their big players, that most of their current roster had probably played for the Lexington Legends at some point.
It’s Cameron’s personal quest to visit as many MLB ballparks as he can.
We saw more homeless people in San Francisco than any other city.
When in San Fran, ride the trolley.
China Town
The Golden Gate Bridge was fogged in the entire time we were there.
The abandoned military outposts above the bridge.
Sausalito, California
Laura found her buddy Paul Frank in San Francisco.
Civil Lore
I’ve had the privilege of working on several cover photos for Kentucky Living Magazine since my first one in 1992.
For those of you who don’t receive the magazine in the mail, Kentucky Living is published for the state’s 26 electric cooperatives. It reaches over 500,000 households. My all-time favorite cover shot came on the front of this month’s edition. It commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, that left Kentucky divided, brother against brother, in the war against the states.
But I can only claim half of this cover. Kentucky Living graphic designer Jim Battles did a fabulous job of combining several photos, that portrayed Civil War re-enactor Chad Greene of Perryville, as both a Federal officer and a Confederate private.
Here are a few behind-the-scenes photos that we did at the Perryville Battlefield in rural Boyle County.
Some of the co-ops chose to run a cover photo from June’s Washington Youth Tour. So not everyone got to see this cover. Jim combined several photos from our shoot with Chad Greene to create this cover shot. I photographed the barn wood, that’s in the background, on my family farm on McGlone Creek in Carter County.
Jim and I took time out to get in on the action! I don’t always get to have an art director with me on photo shoots, but I requested Jim on this one, because the cover was his concept. Sometimes it’s hard to carry out someone else’s artistic concept. But, as always, Jim and I made a good team and we both came up with different angles and ideas.
Chad was a hoot! And a pleasure to work with.
Here a few light-hearted moments from the shoot.
