The Slower Road

So far this week, I haven’t shown you any of the photos that will be featured in the print catalog. But this one is just too clever / funny / adorable not to share. Everybody horse wants a 2014 carriage-driving calendar!

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And here’s the uncropped, behind-the-scenes view of how we got the horse to focus on the, um, carrot. My favorite part is the look on the other horse’s face …

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Continuing with our brief tour of photo-shoot outtakes featuring volunteer models wearing CAA-logo apparel, today we have CAA rain ponchos.

We all decided that it’s really rather difficult to pose convincingly in a rain poncho on a bright, sunny day.

First, we tried having Mindy and Todd stand under a roof, looking out. Is it raining out there? Of course, one of them looks sad about the “rain,” and the other looks happy …

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Then, toward the end of that segment of our photo shoot, I couldn’t stop laughing, and they couldn’t stop laughing …

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… and we had to move on to something else. (I’ll share the final installment from our photo shoot tomorrow.)

I’ve gone through the “finalists” from the photo shoot we had a couple of weeks ago for the CAA’s holiday catalog, and have selected the ones that will be featured in the catalog. Here, then, for the next couple of days, I’ll be posting a few that didn’t make the cut, a behind-the-scenes photo, and a couple of silly shots.

I actually really like this one, but decided not to use it in the final layout of the catalog …

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And I also like this one (although the sun’s a bit too bright on Mindy’s and Todd’s faces), but decided not to use it, either …

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And this one just makes me chuckle because they’re both, but Todd especially, trying so hard to, you know, pose …

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I’m busily working on the CAA’s annual (printed) book & gift catalog, which needs to go to the printer soon so that it can get to members’ mailboxes by about the middle of November.

This year, for something different, we took a pile of CAA gift items to a member’s nearby farm (thanks, Misdee Miller!), enlisted the help of several volunteer models (thanks, Mindy and Todd!), and had a proper photo shoot.

In addition to the “serious” catalog photos, we also — of course — got a few silly ones. Here’s one of those (I’ll share more tomorrow) …

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