A Photoshoot

Monday morning saw Sue and me involved in a rather unique photoshoot. As you might guess, it was connected with Sue's 365 photo group, but not officially.

One of the group members has asked her fellow Canadian photographers to help her out with a project. There are several parts to the project, but what we were doing Monday was taking pictures of Sue standing on the right side of a photo while pointing toward the left.

She was to do this because we live in Eastern Canada, so it will look like she is pointing west. Those in the west will be seen to be pointing east. Folks in Manitoba, the centre of the country, will point in both directions.

The photo was also to be representative of the town.

Sue chose the trail bridge to be her location. We could shoot looking up the river, which is a prominent Carleton Place feature, and also toward town hall.

Here ↓ are two photos with the river and town hall in the background, plus the historic Boulton Brown Mill, the other building on the left.

You may be wondering what is on Sue's head.

Well, it's a bit of whimsy borrowed from a lady in town and connects with what has become a logo of our town — a stag's head. A stag's head was used in much of the memorabilia associated with our recent 200th anniversary. Indeed, I have a pair of red and black tartan socks with a stag's head emblazoned at the top.

It comes from an account of an early mayor shooting a deer, but it was contested by a local native who claimed he needed the deer to feed his family. The story goes that a fair and friendly solution was arrived at, and so a deer head can now be seen to be emblematic of a spirit of friendly cooperation.

Our friend had one more deer hat ↑, but Sue also posed with a shawl that the same lady actually gave her for some reason.

We also did some photos without the headpiece.

I think Sue plans to use the above photo for the project, but personally, this next and last photo was my favourite of the shoot. It's essentially the same as the above photo but focuses more closely on my lovely lady.

We were lucky, for temperatures soared to 3C/37F. It was positively, Canadian balmy.

Addendum: As an afterthought, I did an Antler Collage. I flipped the top photo for balance, even though it reverses the buildings.