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60028 hauls its heavy load of stone out of Lewisham station and takes a left towards Denmark Hill, Wandsworth Road and heading then north through Kensington Olympia.
RIGHT: 80cm softbox with 300W Pro Photo Flash inside (1/8 power); ON THE BACK OF MODEL: 300W Pro Photo Flash with Barndoor and Honeycomb (1/8 power)
If Robin's Dad were driving, the route between his old house on the river and the new condo in suburbia would involve a plodding path on a winding back road irrationally packed with semi-trucks running along the river that eventually works itself into a big mass of mall road stoplight traffic, and it would all take about two hours. But Robin's Dad doesn't drive anymore, so we're free to take the usually much quicker, much more direct interstate highway path that takes maybe a half hour. Only this time, traffic on northbound I-71/75 was all backed up because the Brent Spence Bridge had melted, so we decided to explore a backwoods path between the interstates that offered a crossing of the Licking River a few miles south of the condo in Alexandria.
The route is pretty, running through landscape that could come from a Kentucky state tourism brochure, but the Northern Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati have expanded with wild abandon, and all the back road paths are perpetually clogged with traffic headed for McMansion subdivisions hidden behind the rolling hills on former farms on the other side of the rail fences. A lot of people were also avoiding the bridge traffic jam, but these backroads through here are packed like this all the time. Cincinnati is swallowing the northern Bluegrass.
down at bawley for a week with the kids at mum and dad's...my old muse, out the front, a step off the deck to solitary blissssssss....
a couple of takes, thought I would share 'em both
acer in the pot
alchemilla mollis
campanula poscharskyana (blue)
hardy geranuim
primula veris (cowslip)
aubrieta
saxifraga (two types)
weigela at the back
gooseberry not looking to good
A back patch I designed for a motorcycle club in Bergen, Norway. Skallebank = Headache... The cell phone photography is of the patch on the vest..
the back pond has been dug out needed to line it with wet clay ti stop the soil falling in as the soil was so dry
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A long time coming with this one-this is the quilt back for my Munki in the Middle quilt I started almost 3 years ago with the help of the lovely [Bee]-autiful quilting bee ladies.
Barbara is one of the top 5 racing/equestrian photographers in the country. I find her view far too romantic (haha) - a couple of years ago I wrote her a total sobstory letter of some sort... this is what she wrote back to me... I found it really interesting to read it again... I admire her very much. www.barbaralivingston.com/
here's the letter:
Hi Holly,
Thank you for your note, and for sharing your nice photographs. I
especially like the photo of Edgar Prado. An excellent portrait. ;)
Regarding horse photography, there are a few types of racing photography
jobs--magazine/newspaper, or track photographer. There aren't many track
photographer jobs around, except as assistants. At tracks like NYRA, the track
photographer hires people to shoot races for them. Sometimes they pay, sometimes
not. If your photograph is published, it will have their credit line on it--not
yours. So that's a tough thing.
But the up side to that is experience, which is great...and very important.
They can help you learn about photography and other aspects of the job.
I have two girls that help out when I need an assistant, but there are other
photographers that occasionally need help. Michael Marten sometimes uses
someone at Saratoga, for instance.
If you would like to become a photographer for magazines/newspapers, choose
what publication might be willing to use your work. A smaller magazine, such
as American Turf Monthly, is easier to 'get in' with--or perhaps a local
newspaper would help out. From the credentials they issue you take photos, which
(hopefully) get published, which gets your name 'out there.'
Horse racing photograpy is great, but it isn't as easy and fun as it seems
;). Jockeys prefer you not sell photos of them without permission, silks are
copyrighted, and some owners won't let you sell photos of their horses (big
horses, especially--Slew's owners, and Secretariat's, and Cigar's, for instance,
fight to protect their horses' images). Racetracks often don't allow you to
sell any photos which are taken on their grounds.
Some racetracks will pull your credentials if you sell photos from their
tracks (like a photo of the Matron finish, for instance, cannot be sold). So you
have to work with those rules or not have credentials. I follow those rules,
just because I want to keep my credential (and I tend to follow rules anyway).
I get perhaps 10 e-mails weekly from people interested in becoming horse
racing photographers, yet there are only a handful of publications that are
'major.' For those few magazines, there are hundreds of people who want to take
photos for them. As the track photographer provides free images to those
publications, you have to take something better than what they can get for free!
(another challenge) ;)
But if you want it enough, you can do it. I had a really rough road for more
than a decade (!) before it started to smooth out....and even now there's a
bump or two. ;) But I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Take care, good luck and keep shooting,
Barbara Livingston
THEN - I must have written her again because here's another one from her - these two letters are from December 2003 -
Hello again Holly,
At least you have a point of interest--it appears to not be just the jockeys
at NYRA but more specifically, as you mention "men" four times, the male
jockeys at NYRA. So just think of how to do something in regard to them that
hasn't been done.
There have been several books published about jockeys, the most recent being
"Rides of Their Lives" in 2002. There have been countless photo books over
the years with jockeys being a primary, or at least important, focus (either
photographically or through writing).
For such ventures, you do not need approval from the racetracks, although it
helps to work through them. You need to get a very strong body of work.
Book publishers don't just want "an idea" for a book--they'll want to see a
near-finished project. You'd have to write a few chapters, present a good
proposal with a lot of work already done (such as submitting perhaps 50 8x10"s, in
a portfolio, with a proposal). So many people want to have books published
that publishers get countless submissions. I've seen the stacks on some
peoples' desks! And so many racing photographers photograph the jockeys, try to
think of how to make yours different.
One thing I suggest it to look at your work critically--I always view mine
that way. On a scale of 1 to 10, for instance, think of how you'd rate yours.
Few of mine would be higher than a 7. Most would be a 5 or so. A 5 is a
good, sharp image---but nothing extraordinary.
So find your own road--and it sounds as if you've already got a direction. I
found mine by choosing a path and heading toward it.
Good luck!
Barbara Livingston
(that's the kind of person she is)
10 x 7 Gum bichromate over cyanotype on Canson Montval 124lb Rough w/c paper. One b/w laser transparency printed with four separate layers of color.
when I am heartbroken, I feel completely naked and vulnerable. That's why I took these pictures. These were taken during my last breakup.