Gun.Smoke and Horses

 

There is a week or so long event in DeKalb called the Kishwaukee Fest. I don't completely understand it because there are some festivals in the area that have been taking place for years and now they are combined into this new fest. Saturday the Northern Illinois Outlaws rode horses and shot guns at balloon targets. Someone was explaining how the .45 Colts work and I just kept thinking about Red Dead Redemption and how Marston was done wrong. Apparently there is going to be a sequel or a prequel. Anyway these folks are serious and boy they like guns. Gun.Smoke on the NES was good too.

 

Hats

Today I was asked to look for "wild art." I'm still not sure what that means. Anyhow, I found these two guys with cowboy hats selling corn from a pickup truck so I stopped. While photographing them, Beck Diefenbach my co-photographer from the Chronicle, was across the street waving to me. Apparently while going to the Sycamore post office he'd seen the two guys with their cowboy hats too and had tried calling me to photograph them without even realizing that I was already there. It's all about the hats.