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JWilsonphoto wrote:
Hi Erich,
With Chandler's affinity for horses I think this will be a fun combination of loves for him and a little something different to do together.
I was talking with a friend at the airport last week about his horses. He's the guy that overnights zillion dollar horses around the globe. Apparently he has put together a world class team of some type of horses and they compete all over the world. I shot his Hunter Jumper years ago and he loved the images, had no idea what I was doing, but when you have an animal that is that beautiful, in nice light and surroundings, you can't get too far off of the path. The conversation turned to the latest competition, in Ocala I think. He was telling me all about it and how his team placed second or third, that it was incredibly beautiful and exciting. I glibly mentioned that it sounds like a great place to have a photographer in attendance. He smiled and said, "ahhh, those guys were all over the place, but none of them shoot like you (which I find difficult to believe), and he went on to complain about how expensive they were and he only got a couple of halfway decent shots, blah, blah, blah. I just look at him and slightly tongue in cheek, but really not, said, "well, you know my rates, you apparently love my work, I shoot everywhere, seems like the next move would be up to you........." He glossed over that because the conversation at this point was aimed at talking about the number and type of horses and the other competitions they had won this year.
I don't really care, and it's not like I'm jonesing for his business, but conversations like that just leave me dumbfounded. The guy has cash flowing out of his ears, and he can't connect the dots, or doesn't want to? All the while I'm staring at the 20x30's of my work that he had me print, hanging on his hangar office wall. Same thing when he raced Porsches all over, raved about my aviation images, talked about me traveling with his racing team, never happened. Makes you scratch your head, but I'm at the stage where I care less and less.
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Jim, you're preaching to the choir!  There's an unbelievable amount of money in horses, even on the local level here, but trying to get people to understand good photography is worth the cost is almost impossible any more. They think nothing of spending a couple hundred on braiding hair for a show, but will be satisfied with an iPhone snap, or just copy the proof pics from my website watermark and all. Don't even get me started on convincing show organizers to pay for a photographer, they think I should be giving away photos for free for the "publicity and exposure". As if I can pay for my gear or insurance with that...
Erich
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