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| Call me “Black Kettle” |
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| Leprechaun Stew, anyone? |
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| Amazing artist! I bought a shell bowl she crafted. |
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| She pounded sea shells with a hammer and inlaid the pieces into an epoxy bowl. She said it would be her last one, due to the stinky epoxy. Ten dollars was a bargain and nice memory of her handiwork. |
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| The Scottish Harmonican speaks with a Scottish brogue and plays a mean dance tune. |
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| Leprechaun and his wife make huckleberry jellies, syrups and weavings to sell. |
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| Come join us next year the first weekend of June, near Ashton, Idaho, and pick up a jar of huckleberry syrup! |
The Real Mountain Men and Women!
We went to visit the Camp Henry Mountain Man Rendezvous this year on June 10, and I came back with these portraits. Black Kettle, in the first sepia photo with his rifle, welcomed us from the parking lot and agreed to give us a private photo session. My husband drove the van for our group, which included ten photographers from my Digital Imaging classes. We had a fun time and everyone was willing to tell us their story while we photographed them.
I used my 18-200mm Nikon lens on my Nikon D7000 to capture these portraits, but since it was midday light, I processed them in Camera Raw to fine-tune the lighting and colors. In most cases I added some contrast and sharpening. I ran the fourth image, Scottish Harmonican, through Photomatix, so that is why is has a more animated HDR look.
