Archive for category Portraits
Photo Essay: Loudoun Hunt West (December 5, 2010)
Posted by KLM in Fairfax Hunt, Foxhunts, Loudoun Hunt West, Photo Essays, Portraits on December 21, 2010
This photo essay is posted at KLM Images.
Cropping for action
All charm and tilted motion
I typically come down on the engineering side of the analysis vs artistic spectrum, and this manifests in my photography as wanting to see the whole scene: the entire horse and rider, the full pack of hounds, and so forth. This is an artistic fault, I firmly believe. I know this because, whenever happenstance intervenes and forces a moving target to be cropped in ways I would never have planned, I am often much pleased with the results.
When I stand too close to the action with a particular lens and try to get something useful anyway, the image is reduced to its essentials. I don’t need to see the top of the rider’s head or the details of the horse’s legs to enjoy this shot. Read the rest of this entry »
Photo Essay: Ashland Bassets (April 16, 2010)
Posted by KLM in Ashland Bassets, Hunting with Basset Hounds, Photo Essays, Photography, Portraits on September 12, 2010
The photo essay is posted at KLM Images.
Complicated events
Waiting for another hunt to finish
This is a just-published essay from an event of a few months ago. There is a 4-day pack trial of basset hounds where several hunts come and compete in various pack formations (3-couple, 5-couple, 7-couple) actively hunting rabbits and being judged for hunting effectiveness. This particular essay is the second day, with the 3-couple (6 hounds) competition. Day 1 is published here; days 3 & 4 will be available here & here.
At any time during the course of the day, there may be one pack just finishing hunting and exiting the hunting area, one pack beginning to hunt, another pack waiting its turn, and yet another pack out taking some exercise. The participants largely know each other and have done this for many seasons, so they are not confused by the activities, but a photo essay sampling all the activities in order can’t help but be bewildering to less knowledgeable viewers compared to, say, a foxhunt.