Photography Road-trip!!

This is my friend, Cherie...Cherie is a nut for photography. That girl never goes anywhere without her camera. I just know one day I will get an emergency call telling me that Cherie will have to be rushed to surgery to have her camera strap and camera removed from her neck and hands. It's that bad, people. I''m not kidding! Well...maybe just a smiggin. But really, you can trust my judgement on that, because I happen to be a photography spazz nut case too! I think that is why Cherie and I get along so well...

Above you will see that Cherie is carrying her 50 pound Nikon with a spazzed out lens that has a dual purpose, if we happen to be attacked by 100 wet noodles! Oh, and I'm not jealous of her spazzed out lens that has a dual purpose either! It's saved us many a time from attackers!!

One other thing that Cherie and I share is the love of horses. Whenever we go on photography road trips, we spazz out together and find every way possible to pull the big ol honkin' 4X4, jacked up, piece of hummin' smoothness up a rutted mountain and down a deep gorge, just so we can stop and stroke a horse or two! I have to tell a secret, though...Cherie doesn't wash her hands for weeks after petting a horse!!


Sometimes after we pet those beautiful creatures, we take photos of them too! I think if our husbands would let us, we would bring all those beauties home with us, but they won't fit on our laps (we don't own a horse trailer)! So, we moved onto our next destination, over the foothills and up the mountains to Bass Lake. When we arrived, we saw horse trailers, but no horses. We followed the hoof prints all the way to the water's edge of the lake, and I said while point to the lake, "They went that way!" I wasn't born yesterday, you know! As I was looking at the water, Cherie calls out "The horses, Gayle!" I told you she gets spazzed out when she sees horses, but I didn't really believe her at first until something moved near the Manzanita trees, the opposite direction of the lake. Well, I'll be hogtied! It was a horse...and his owner!


It was nice to have more horses to take photos of and we even asked this man and his wife (we assumed...it could have been a man and his girlfriend, or a man and his sister, or a man and his secretary...but, I'm goin' with a man and his wife), if we could take their photos and they didn't have a problem with that. Oh, do you understand the total satisfaction of those words "yes, you may take our picture" when it comes to spazzed out photography nuts like Cherie and yours truly???


The woman's horse was a bit of a show off. When he got to the water, all he wanted to do was play in it, or cool off in it, or play in it again...the horses were a bit lathered up...but still a show off none the less!!


He even would look back to see if anyone was watching. "Show off!" I hollered!!


Then it was time to leave Bass Lake...Oh, and I promised Cherie I wouldn't go into any detail of how we kind of got lost and then found our way back, and onto home again, home again, jiggity, jig!

One last stop on our way home...we were actually trying to find horses again and we knew just where they were, but we found these bovine instead, that happened to be right by the fence and in perfect position for photos. That was, until we got out of the vehicle and then there was all kinds of mooing and grunting and scampering. I told Cherie to stop it or she was going to scare the bovine!! (The photo below shows what our foothills look like in the winter with the gnarly scrub oak trees without their leaves. They are made of scary, nightmarish, story book tales.)

I told you that Cherie scared the bovine and they tried to venture off, with their ankle bitters latched to their mammary glands, as they lumbered along. "Cherie, would you stop grunting!" I called out.

It was back to the gloomy, foggy, Central Valley...and, that pretty much done tells how yet another photography road-trip found it's way on these pages. Thank you spazzed out photography nut, Cherie, for sharing yet another spazzed out photography road-trip with me!!

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