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I have added three new videos to the video list.  There are also a 
lot of other videos there if you haven't seen them yet.

John Crandell finishing and finishing his final vet thru and talking 
a bit about it
Kassandra DiMaggio doing her victory lap in McCann stadium
Kassandra DiMaggio doing her final trot out

These horses both looked great and it was really a great privilege to 
be able to see them close up.  Did you guys notice that Kassandra 
rode in jeans?

The new album has photos taken by Tinker Hart at Foresthill.

You can find them all on the photos page for the Tevis Webcast at 
this link:  http://www.foothill.net/tevis/webcast06/photo_index.html

I have been receiving photos from others -- so will put together an 
album for that.  If anybody would like to contribute please send me 
the photos along with a description and photo credit.

Please check the links for the commercial photographers that are also 
linked on the photos pages.  They worked very hard to get the photos 
that they did so be sure to support them for their efforts.  It 
really is special to get a photo of your horse on a ride like the 
Tevis.  One of my favorite ride photos is the one of Weaver and I 
going over Cougar Rock -- that was the photo I put on the front of 
the photo albums when we were testing them in case anybody was 
wondering who that was. :)  Riding the ride is great, but 
volunteering is also a lot of fun and I'm glad that to have been able 
to help Jackie and the WSTF with the webcast.  If it weren't for all 
of the volunteers this ride would never happen -- this year they had 
750 volunteers.  They had twenty rigs hauling horses out of the 
checks (which are remote) -- those volunteers doing that all at their 
own expense.  This ride is the ultimate team effort.

The funniest story I have from this year is from one of the vet 
checks where I was taking photos and the volunteer said one of the 
foreign riders who didn't (obviously) understand English very well 
tried to come into the P&R area with tack still on their horse and 
she told him that he needed to strip -- he took her seriously and 
started to take his own clothes off!  I guess some riders will do 
anything to get thru Tevis, eh?  ;^)    The crew shirts that 
said  (fronts) "What is long and hard and lasts all night" and (back) 
"Crewing Tevis 2006" were commented on a lot also.

The volunteers who contributed photos all did a great job and spent a 
lot of long hours driving, working, and staying awake.  We split up 
and went to different locations which helped a lot -- while others 
took photos I was able to process them and get them online fairly 
quickly.  Technology has come a long way in just the last couple of 
years.  For example, the camera I used to take the photos and video 
with is about as big as a credit card (a little thicker though).  It 
can hold over 800 photos.  I'm not sure how much video.  Software can 
now batch resize the photos in seconds, which makes everything so 
much more efficient and quick to upload.  It got a little crazy at 
times trying to keep up with all of the various card readers, CD's, 
cords, plugs and such.   It took the longest time to add in the 
comments and info that we had obtained when we took photos on Friday 
at Robie Park.  We had a lot of fun getting to talk to riders from 
all over the country.   How I wished they all could have completed 
their dream of finishing the Tevis and I hope that they will all try 
again if they didn't make it this year.  We really do learn a lot 
from our failures and it makes success all that much better when we 
do achieve it.  This is a link to one of my favorite 
quotes: 
http://easycareinc.typepad.com/karen/2006/05/one_of_my_favor.html 
Stay inspired and don't give up!

Thanks to EasyCare for their sponsorship and support of the webcast 
photos, and also to Jackie Floyd and the WST ride management for 
making this such an enjoyable experience, and for working so hard to 
make this a First Class Event!   You guys rock.  ;)

Karen

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