Studio 47 Photography Photo Blog

Back to the blogosphere.  The wife and I had gone camping for the Christmas so we’ve been away from the computer for a few days.  Yes, camping in winter, I know crazy, but it ‘s nice to get back to nature once in a while.  Ok, we camped in our cool retro 1955 Silver Streak Jet camper (think airstream but more off-brand), so not completely back to nature, but we were the only crazies out camping. I’ll break my own self-imposed limit of only one picture per post, I’ll throw up a little sneak preview of the silver streak under a starry winter sky (dig the shooting star!!).

Canon 5d Mk II, ISO 400, Canon 16-35L MkII @ 16 mm, f9, 28.5 minutes

Speaking of crazies, i figured I’d pass along this great story that a friend passed along to me and is the inspiration for the blog title.  This article was published on February 28, 1911 in what I believe is the Princeton-Clarion News.  You just don’t get to read these heart felt stories of true love anymore.

Like Story of the Dark Ages

118 Members of Wedding Party Eaten By Wolves

Woman and Children Thrown Out to Appease Brutes

With the party reduced to four in the Bride and Groom’s Sledge, the newly-weds are thrown to the ravenous animals and but two live to tell the awful story.

Vienna, Feb. 28.-One hundred and eighteen members of a wedding party of 120 including the bride and groom were devoured by wolves while driving by sledge from Obstik off to Tashkend in Asiatic Russia, a distance of twenty miles.

Today’s Zeit declares two survivors reached Tashkend in the half-crazed condition after having thrown the bride and groom to the hundreds of wolves.

The four occupied the same sledge, and when the groom refused to abandon the bride to lighten the load, both were thrown out.

The men of the party shot many of the animals, without checking their pursuit.  The women and children were then the first to be thrown to the wolves.

And beyond the true love that the groom was willing to be thrown out of the sledge too with his bride, who says chivalry is dead?

So on to the real picture.  All in all we were hoping for some snow, but to no avail, it wasn’t a white Christmas.  Mostly dark and gray until the last two days.  So we made a trip to Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park in Missouri. There wasn’t much going on, sort of late in the day and the water level seemed kind of low.  What we did have was some great color reflecting off the water from the late afternoon sunlight lighting the evergreen trees along the opposite bank.

Work with what you have I guess.  It’s good though to go out and challenge yourself to try and create some keeper images when conditions aren’t exactly perfect.  Anyways, here is one of the keepers that I took.  Just playing with some light.  I hope you enjoy.

Canon 5d Mk II, ISO 250, Canon 100-400L @ 100 mm, f7.1, 1/125 sec