Dec
21
2009
Pig Woman Jan
It’s still snowy. What to shoot but lovely pal Pig Woman Jan…she’s not a pig but she is a woman and her name is Jan. She stables her horse on the farm where we live and we joint owned the pigs with her and our neighbour, who owns the farm. Much of her pig is currently stored in our freezer and thus we are bonded f…o…r…e…v…e…r….or at least until the meat runs out …
Luckily she is as mad as a snake. Not just because her idea of fun is dressing up a big old cape and getting on her horse for a snowy photoshoot, oh no this just the tip of the iceberg. It’s her new coat that confirms her bonkerdom. She has knitted a coat made from doghair. A dog that she owns. Yes, she has knitted a coat made from the hair of her dog. She has spent years gathering it, spinning it, dying it and then knitting in to the most amazing coat…it’s quite Joseph and his Technicolour etc etc. I should have photographed it but I was too overwhelmed by the moment. Anyway, she’s bonkers and hoorah for that. And here she is with her super and super vast horse Coco. We had a jolly time, can you tell?
So funny! Could you have ever imagined, just a few short years ago, that you’d have a freezer full of pig that you reared and sent to slaughter, that you’d be doing photoshoots with a woman who knitted her own dog into a coat? How strange life turns out sometimes!
the cape is absolutely stunning!!
She made a coat out of DOG HAIR??? HER dog’s hair???? Oh my, now that is…resourceful. Kinda crazy and kinda cool…hmm. (but does it smell like dog?)
The shots look like something out of Lord of the rings. Really gorgeous, especially that black and white one.
WOW, Spud, these photos are just stunning…especially the last one in the montage…the horse, the rider, the lighting, the action, absolutely incredibile! Smashing photos!
♥
S
Pig Woman Jan is cool. I bow my head in shame, and respect.
i love that cape!
Oh Spud you amaze me. These photos are stunning and your life is certainly colorful. I wonder if she rests the cap on her knee will it try to hump her leg?
amazing action shots! and the cape~ swoon!
xoxo
I bet Jan is really pleased with that photoshoot.
I always wanted to ride a horse wearing that old velvet cape. Perhaps one day I will. And perhaps I’ll even bump into my personal Robin Hood when I do that.
I don’t think I ever said how nice the new look of your blog is. It’s great.
bleeeuuugghhhhhh…. when I try and find the right words that’s all that comes out…. you have reduced me to a gibbering heap, especially with the last one!
I bow to thee my totally wonderful friend!!!
xxx
The pictures are downright (searching for a suitable word) MAJESTIC. But a dog hair coat? It boggles the mind.
LOVE the new blog look.
She’s like something out of a kid’s fairy tale. As are the pictures. They’re beautiful!
The cape reminded me of a coat I had as a girl. Dark green suede with a rabbit fur hood . Fun memory!
Oh so beautiful..Pig woman, the coat, the horse, the photos…yet I am captivated by the dog hair coat. I am up to my knees in dog hair, yet never though of that…hmmmm!
Thank god there are still some characters left, and that some are still in the teaching profession, not yet expunged by the Great Vanilla-Beige. It’s the only hope for the future.
Hopefully her dog is a Burmese Mountain Dog, and not a Chihuo… Chiwow…. Chihwo… Cheewow… Chiehou… Oh bugger it…. a Toy Poodle…. or that’s gonna be one tiny coat…
I had to come back to look at these – delurking myself ….. i love this set of shots. you are the BEST non Pro photog I ‘know’