the true awkward shot came shortly after this, when the horse decided to run back to the barn before dad and the kid got back in the cart. (you know these pics ALWAYS end badly…)
Not awkward. Historical re-enactment. Awkward would be if there was an elbow-shelf employed on the buggy, or they piled 8 people on top of one another on the buggy.
That cart also doesn’t actually fit the horse, which is very unsafe.*
* – That could be the perspective of the shot, but that shaft isn’t far enough to the chest. Or is it that he isn’t all the in? Driving experts chime in here! It looks like a cart made for ponies, but again, maybe it’s the picture combined with my driving newbieness.
The horse is too big for the cart, it would seem – or at least the shafts are too short. Also the harness doesn’t really fit the horse, and they are using the spreaders (those white sets of increasingly larger rings in the photo) as decoration and not actually as they were meant to be used (to keep the lines straight and spread when driving a TEAM) of horses.
So, leaving aside any claims to “historical reenactment” this photo is very awkward. At least for the horse.
And the horse’s pullback straps are not done up, which is why that leather is dangling around the horse’s hind legs. So if they DID go anywhere, it would be very awkward when the cart rolled into the horse’s rump and goosed him.
The Boy in front is a Ghost from a photo taken in 1867. It was photoshopped in.
The actual photo appeared on Crossbow Illustrated Magazine from 1976- ‘How to use winter trees to make crossbows” And again in Crossbow Illustrated Magazine 1979- ” Kill your lame horse with a crossbow”
This is obviously some sort of historical recreation, and in reality, people didn’t smile for photos back then, so really this isn’t awkward, but historically accurate
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That horse has hydrolics.
I drive a Mustang too!!
*schnicker, schnicker*
I like this photo. Nothing awkward about it.
“Anatevka, Anatevka…”
Just a family taking advantage of the “Cash For Clunkers” program. Nothing awkward about that….
the true awkward shot came shortly after this, when the horse decided to run back to the barn before dad and the kid got back in the cart. (you know these pics ALWAYS end badly…)
Somewhere right now, Michael Landon is cringing…
Yes!!!
If the horse started to move, “Pa” would have to run behind it or end up under that cart.
this actually almost looks like it were an old photo that’s been colorized, I think that’s kinda cool
Not awkward. Historical re-enactment. Awkward would be if there was an elbow-shelf employed on the buggy, or they piled 8 people on top of one another on the buggy.
That cart also doesn’t actually fit the horse, which is very unsafe.*
* – That could be the perspective of the shot, but that shaft isn’t far enough to the chest. Or is it that he isn’t all the in? Driving experts chime in here! It looks like a cart made for ponies, but again, maybe it’s the picture combined with my driving newbieness.
Hopefully no one was hurt.
but if they did get hurt I hope that they took pictures of it
and then photoshopped in a safer cart
The horse is too big for the cart, it would seem – or at least the shafts are too short. Also the harness doesn’t really fit the horse, and they are using the spreaders (those white sets of increasingly larger rings in the photo) as decoration and not actually as they were meant to be used (to keep the lines straight and spread when driving a TEAM) of horses.
So, leaving aside any claims to “historical reenactment” this photo is very awkward. At least for the horse.
And the horse’s pullback straps are not done up, which is why that leather is dangling around the horse’s hind legs. So if they DID go anywhere, it would be very awkward when the cart rolled into the horse’s rump and goosed him.
I think maybe the horse posted the photo then, as payback.
The Boy in front is a Ghost from a photo taken in 1867. It was photoshopped in.
The actual photo appeared on Crossbow Illustrated Magazine from 1976- ‘How to use winter trees to make crossbows” And again in Crossbow Illustrated Magazine 1979- ” Kill your lame horse with a crossbow”
awesome
How about my family photo?
Historical re-inactment, but not awkward.
you don’t find Mom’s happy face the least bit awkward? Everyone just looks so angry…
You would too if you were behind a flatulant horse.
Especially if said horse was eating your son’s arm
It’s odd that the boy in front is so much bigger than everyone else. Yes, I know he’s in the foreground, but why is he so big?
steroids
Um because he’s in the foreground.
no no no no no, there is still no way he is that height in relation to the horse!!
Kids- “Are we there yet?”
Dad- “no”
Kids- “Are we there yet?”
Dad- “no”
Kids- “Are we there yet?”
Dad- “Don’t MAKE me turn this cart around!”
LOL. “Do I have to come back there and sit between you two?”
“Do you want me to knock your heads together? Because I WILL knock your heads together!”
“Father, Esmeralda sat on my half of the bench!”
“He touched me!”
“Dad, he’s looking at me funny”
or my personal favorite “I’m not touching you” “Stop touching me” “I’m not touching you”
“im not touching you! Im touching your clothes…”
“If thou complains once again, thou will cleanse ye olde outhouse”
These pictures are too funny. I also enjoy pictures with people wearing head gear.
Dad’s in big trouble if that horse has post-meal issues.
Check out the hotties on the carriage, she sure knows how to wear a crocheted shawl like a mutha’!
OMG! – LMAO!
I think I’m in love
Stiff poses, yes, but “awkward”?
This is obviously some sort of historical recreation, and in reality, people didn’t smile for photos back then, so really this isn’t awkward, but historically accurate
Except for the mink the woman is wearing.