Pow Wow Photos

[Diane CBPFC]

I thought you may like to see my Pow Wow photos Roger seeing that you are not my Facebook friend. They may inspire some Horace thoughts.

http://www.dianehaskellphotography.com/HighPrairiePowWow2015.html

This photographer business is my third career this year after the short stint preparing taxes and then being a reporter. I am three days off a month being in the business and have not yet booked a paying client - however I have got four charity gigs so that is a good start.

[Roger Kettle]

Absolutely fabulous, Diane.
I know that Sitting Bull and a large number of the Sioux tribe moved North into Canada for a period in the 1870s. The Canadian government stuck to the treaties that had been made---unlike the government below the border.
Are these photos of one tribe or a gathering of different tribes? In Montana, the Crow Indians have a special, annual event called the Crow Fair.
By the way, I nearly named my daughter after Crazy Horse's mother. I think "Rattle Blanket Woman Kettle" has a nice ring to it. 

[Diane CBPFC]

There were at least four bands represented but I think at least three of them were Cree. They also had some Metis events but we didn't stay for those or the individual adult dances - I went on a photography trip just for the day with a friend from our photo club.

The Canadian government may not have been so brutal as to murder the Indian in the field but they did do their level best to kill the Indian in the man. The repercussions of the residential school system are still felt to this day. The natives were not allowed to use their language or their drums for years. This is why gatherings such are this are so important for the kids and youth and why it was so poignant to see so many kids and teens dancing. This was the first time they did the Pow Wow in town, normally they are out on the reserve - it was their way to bridge the nations.

Good decision on the name - the kids at school would have called her Rat for short. :-)

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Beautiful pictures and subjects, Diane. Explosions of colour really brightened up my day. Thank you for posting them.

[Sandy Buttcheeks]

Great pictures, Diane. I'm with Tarks, the differing colours are so eye catching. Cant see past the one with the baby in it, though. Awwwwwwwwww.

 

[Mince]

Congratulations, Diane, on your three careers.

Do those in the photos make their own stunning outfits?

[Diane CBPFC]

Yes, the costumes are great, when they move around especially - I think most of them are purchased - everything on an outfit means something to the person wearing it and so do the colours they choose. Not everything is traditional - one young woman had a beaded icon of a Smurf.

[Diane CBPFC]

After a really slow start to my photography business, I only did two girls baseball team photos all summer, I now seem to have picked up. I couldn't get people to sign up for my previous special but had another go at advertising a garden special - now I have 6 bookings this week for photos in my garden with sunflowers that I grew from birdseed.

I did one session already and had a great time. It really perks you up having people smile at you (your camera) all the time. 

I was gone for 9 days in July - my daughter and I went camping in a tent in the Rockies. My husband thought we would chicken out and be home after one or two nights but we were awesome campers! We kept warm and dry and cooked on a fire and a little camp stove. I hadn't been camping for about 30 years when I went with a friend and we came back after a couple of nights because we got scared of the bears. Well it was more reading the brochure about the bears that they hand you when you enter a national park. This time I had a can of bear spray in the tent and it made all the difference.

Anyway that's been my life this summer.

[Roger Kettle]

Delighted that the photography side of things is deservedly picking up, Diane. Your photos have always been a joy to look at.
I'm extremely impressed by your camping exploits. In my youth, several attempts to spend the night in a tent were thwarted by a mild drizzle. I'm not sure I could have coped with a wild grizzly.

[Mince]

Delighted that the photography side of things is deservedly picking up, Diane. Your photos have always been a joy to look at.
I'm extremely impressed by your camping exploits. In my youth, several attempts to spend the night in a tent were thwarted by a mild drizzle. I'm not sure I could have coped with a wild grizzly.

Oh, and this would bring me to the age-old question of whether getting older means you can no longer do those things or whether no longer doing those things makes you older.

Nice flowers, Diane.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Lovely flowers, Diane! The idea of there being cuddly bears would probably be the only thing that would ever actually get me to go camping.

[Mince]

This topic should be renamed the 'Lovely flowers, by the way, topic.'

[Diane CBPFC]

Lovely flowers, Diane! The idea of there being cuddly bears would probably be the only thing that would ever actually get me to go camping.

There are not that many bears in the parks really. We did see one when driving down a narrow road back from a dip in the hot spring. The grizzly bear that is the father of 70% of the grizzly bears in the park has killed and eaten two brown bears. You do sleep better with a can of bear spray. The chipmunks cause most people a trip to the hospital. If you go in wanting your finger sewn up, then you are also charged $200 for unlawfully feeding the wildlife.

[Mince]

So while you're being mauled and eaten by a bear, does the park ranger shout: "I'm not rescuing you until you stop feeding the bears."

[Diane CBPFC]

So while you're being mauled and eaten by a bear, does the park ranger shout: "I'm not rescuing you until you stop feeding the bears."

I'm not rescuing you until you pay your $250,000 ticket more like.

"A fed bear is a dead bear"