Saturday was Bike The Bear. It is a family event put on by Boy Scouts, where kids and adults condition themselves to ride their bikes around the entire perimeter of Bear Lake. My little (big) brother has been doing this bike race for the past several years. He and my other brother are the leaders of Troop 1, here in Cache County. They ended up going with the troop to the scout camp who was hosting the event the day before and staying overnight. The rest of my family and I plus my grandparents piled into our 12 passenger van (we're all tall people, so we need a vehicle that accommodates that!), drive to Bear Lake to catch my brother in action and see him at the finish line. We also brought Jasper (our border collie) with us.
One thing that is a guarantee, is that it would always be cold, cloudy, windy, and rainy/snowy on Bike the Bear day.
Quite blurry, but it still shows my brother well enough to know that he really likes bright colors. He is also quite the speed demon on that bike (not to mention that he has road tires on, which literally have not tread so that you could ride better on paved roads).
Oh, yeah, we had almost had a close counter with a bull moose....that is, the cyclist who was working his way up the hill (who we had passed and then created a barrier between him and the moose). Thankfully, the moose decided change his direction back towards the lake. We actually had seen three moose (this guy, and then a bull with a doe) that day.
Do you see that dark line out there? That's a drop-off (now I have that scene from Finding Nemo running through my head!) where it leads to the deepest part of the lake. Last I heard, no one has found the bottom; so the local folklore is that there is a tunnel connecting Bear Lake with Loch Ness that Nessie can travel from Loch Ness to become the Bear Lake Monster. The crazy thing is there's a fault line that runs through the middle (width wise) and can cause minor earthquakes (first one I felt was at Bear Lake!)
Before going back home, we had burgers for lunch on one of the beaches that allows dogs. We had some sun, but it was still pretty cold due to the low winds bouncing off of the mountains. We slept for most of the time - everyone really needed a break! I had brought a whole slew of horses to photograph, but the wind was a bit too much. Also, the color/light composition of the background wasn't all that great (the foreground was bright and bleached from the sun, and the background was very dark with the water being a weird teal color).
One the way home through Logan Canyon, I made sure I snapped some pictures of the fall colors that are already here!
On Sunday, I decided to walk up to a nearby field I only recently discovered, to take those much needed photos for the MEPSA Vintage Special.
It was still pretty windy, but not as bad as yesterday. No ponies falling over from wind.
I knew that none of this would fit in the basket to my three-wheeler bike - thankfully we had a wagon that could!
I was able to get quite a few good pictures...most of which are portraits - which are fine, I like portraits! But, there are a LOT of portraits...
I had gotten some of these type of scene photos...by holding the model up and then cropping out my hand later.
Daisy Mae is so cute! She looks like she's tossing her head in this photo (she also looks like she's smiling!)
This is my third take on getting a decent portrait of Silver. I hope it works this time - all the others have been too dark or blurry.
My goal for this year is blending that sharp edge with bushes/grass props.
I think I would still prefer a photo of him at the beach due to his coloring, but this would have to do for now.
I did encounter some people while I was doing the photo shoot. One was a guy with his dog (who kept stopping and waiting my me for her owner to catch up). The other was a whole family, in which the mom was greatly intrigued by what I was doing. I took that opportunity to tell her a little bit about the model horse hobby and community. The nice thing about both people was that they recognized it as art - which is exactly what it is!
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