[Leica] Dog wrangling - guns, kids, and saying "cheese"

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

The butt sniff is especially touching;^)

Ric


On Oct 19, 2006, at 8:51 AM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> Raphael and Cathy with their two kids and two dogs provided a
> considerable challenge. I was Without Assistant on this one so had to
> undertake not only the photo snappin' but all the "hey doggie! look  
> over
> here!" that phil normally takes care of. Dogs want to help, but  
> they're
> sure you want to photograph their hind ends. Kids just don't care.
> Ultimately the only direction that seems to work is "mom and dad, you
> just keep looking at me, I'll wait for the kids and the dogs." Because
> of that I ended up taking more than twice the number of photos that i
> usually do and, of course, the ones that successfully capture faces  
> and
> expressions for some reason leave the rules of good composition in the
> dust. you get one or the other, it seems.
>
> Raphael and his Armalite AR-10: "I'm not into hunting, I love  
> animals, I
> could never shoot one. I could never shoot a person either, but I just
> love guns."
>
> http://www.armedamerica.org/paul4/rafael4.jpg
> http://www.armedamerica.org/paul4/rafael1.JPG
> http://www.armedamerica.org/paul4/rafael3.JPG
>
>
>
> David and Noel and their three daughters were much easier.
>
> Crystal: "I shot my third deer this year -- with a muzzle loader. One
> shot, she took maybe half a step. She was dead before she hit the
> ground":
>
> http://www.armedamerica.org/paul4/carlisle-pa.JPG
>
>
>
> And one unrelated normal type wedding photo for those of you who are
> freaked out by all this:
>
> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2006/kim1.jpg
>
>
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