The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11

[BladeRider]

Rock star is a good description. And it was difficult to see past the color and the mane. He would be just an average horse, maybe a little heavy for a Morgan, without all that

I know I am a little behind, so I apologize in advance.

Duchess, He almost looks like those Rocky Mountain Horses in color.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Yesterday I went and picked up that furniture in Ka. My cousin also offered to me this picture of my grandparents on their wedding day. It always hung in their house and I remember looking at it thinking "that can't be grandma":)

Anyway, my son and I were trying to figure out last night, how it was done. Did they have colored film then...would have been in the very very early 1900's? We're thinking it was a photograph, then colored in, parts of it look drawn, but others look like a photograph. I can't imagine my grandparents sitting for a portrait drawing, and I can't find a signature, unless it is under the frame. I'm not sure tho it would be a good idea to take it out to look...My grandparents have been dead since 1978-79, So this picture is really really old. Would it fall apart if we opened the frame? Where's the Antique Roadshow when you need them:)

Becky

[AnAmericanMother]

Congratulations on TWO Champions! That's great work. Neither of my dogs could get anywhere in conformation, so I can only watch in awe!

The courses in the upper levels are HIDEOUS. AKC has a reputation for having Excellent courses with lots of sharp turns, U-turns, and "sucker traps".

Fortunately, although the Shell is not fast enough to compete in Masters, she is very tuned in to me and watches AND listens. She knows her right from her left, and she knows the names of all the obstacles. Never knocks a bar, never blows a contact.

Shame she's just about 5 seconds too slow! In Excellent she almost always got one time fault -- no time faults in Masters!

We would work on increasing her speed, but she's already 6 1/2 years old and although she has no joint issues I don't want her to hurt herself with continued pounding over 20 plus jumps . . .

[BladeRider]

I would have quessed Rocky Mountain Horse

Well, guess I should have read on!!!!

[AnAmericanMother]

That's what's called a "colored photograph" or a "tinted photograph". The photographer would take a B&W photo and tint it with special dyes. You can see the "halo" effect where the photographer went easy on the dye around the edges of the blue dress -- he didn't want to bleed over the background color onto the blue. I have quite a number of family photos, both portraits and landscapes, that are done that way. If features or the edges of a dress, etc. were blurry, they would touch it up with black or brown ink, that's what looks like it's drawn.

That was long before color photography was in common use -- the first commercial color process was invented in 1907, but even folks like National Geographic were using the cumbersome systems available only very sparingly. A local photographer wouldn't have color at all.

Her dress with the overcape is very 1900s, right around the turn of the century. Men's fashions don't change much, but his shoes seem about that period. The soft collar is sometimes of later date, but you do see them occasionally instead of the high stiff collars in the early 1900s.

[BladeRider]

The courses in the upper levels are HIDEOUS. AKC has a reputation for having Excellent courses with lots of sharp turns, U-turns, and "sucker traps".

They are even worse when a judge is a small dog person! Big dogs sometimes just cannot get those turns down without taking a bar down. My old girl got her NA, OAJ but we could never get any further, she was too slow. She never broke her show gait and trotted so smartly around the course.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Ok, thanks for the info. It’s a puzzling effect if you don’t know what you are looking at, but what you say makes sense:).

I’ve sent my dad an e-mail asking about the exact date, and where they were married at. I’m going to write it on label to stick on the back so future generations will know.

Becky

[AnAmericanMother]

Shelley is blessed with an extremely short back, she can make a sharp turn without too much fuss.

In playing chase with larger, faster dogs, she learned to turn on a dime and give you back a nickel change.

Ruby on the other hand has a back like an eel or a train of cars . . . I can't believe how long she is. Gives her incredible straight line speed, but it takes her 2-3 strides to figure out how to get those long legs organized for a turn.

[AnAmericanMother]

I can’t tell you how helpful my grandmother’s habit of putting labels on the backs of pictures has been! Future generations will thank you and bless your name!

[AnAmericanMother]

Oh - be sure to include their full names (especially your grandmother's maiden name) as well. And their birthdates, if there's room.

That will help somebody find them in the census. Once you have a name, an age, and a place you can locate individuals on the original handwritten census returns, which are all on microfilm at your nearest branch of the National Archives or LDS stake . . . .

[BladeRider]

Shelley is blessed with an extremely short back, she can make a sharp turn without too much fuss.

That would help an agile dog, but a lot of setters are not the most agile creatures and some of mine when turning sharply will go head over tea kettle, they are funny to watch and sometimes it looks like a comedy skit. Never a dull moment with an Irish in the ring.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

OK, will do. Thanks. I never even thought about their birthday’s and her maiden name, which I do know:)

Becky

[FrogInABlender]

Wow Becky, that’s such a great old picture! And the fact that is’s actually of some of your relatives is just awesome. I like to collect old pictures and frames like that and have quite a few “instant relatives” hanging around the house. I have no idea who they are, but looking at them and trying to imagine what their lives might have been like just fascinates me. That was really generous of your cousin to give it to you.

[FrogInABlender]

Hey thanks for the info on the coloring process of old photos. I’ve often wondered what they used. Several of mine look like they might have been gone over with something like pastel chalk but it could very well be something else.

[AnAmericanMother]

I bet that folks have tried everything from chalk to housepaint at one time or another!

One pic that I have from my husband's grandfather looks like it was done with watercolors. It's a very soft stippled photo paper, and the watercolor (if that's what it is) looks very nice on it. It fuzzed and bled a little around the edges, but since it's a landscape scene with trees overhanging a river, the fuzziness just adds charm.

[BladeRider]

#1 ranked Irish Setter in agility. MACH2 Rusticwoods Swing Softly.

[BladeRider]

One pic that I have from my husband's grandfather looks like it was done with watercolors.

I have one of my great great grandfather that looks like that too. It is a interesting look.

[AnAmericanMother]

When Ruby gets to a bumper, she DIVES on it with such vigor that she sometimes turns a complete somersault!

She always comes up with the bumper in her mouth though.

So does Shelley, of course.

A funny thing about Ruby. If you look in that first picture of her returning the bumper, you can see that the base of her tail looks fuzzed. When she's really excited (as in any time she's retrieving or getting ready to retrieve) she not only fluffs up her hackles, she has this "donut" on her tail that inflates as well. It looks like somebody dropped a furry donut down over her tail and it stuck about 2/3 of the way down. Weirdest thing!

[AnAmericanMother]

Nice!

SHR Sumo's CoDoz Brown Bombshell, AX AXJ AD AJ . . . JH to follow as soon as we find a hunt test nearby!

[BladeRider]

It looks like somebody dropped a furry donut down over her tail and it stuck about 2/3 of the way down.

I know what you are describing! My setter puppies do the same thing when I begin to train them to stack on the table. It is so funny looking. They usually grow out of it so I imagine it looks even funnier on a full grown dog.