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08/21/14 11:17 PM #801    

 

David Buchholz

Last Photo from Sea Ranch for the day...for those of you who love dogs, I present you with..

Gues the breed and win a prize...


08/22/14 07:04 AM #802    

 

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

Dave that's a soft-coated wheaten terrier, isn't it?  Check out a couple of the photos I posted to my profile of my goldendoodle, Chief.  He's a big fuzzy yellow dog too. 


08/22/14 08:13 AM #803    

 

David Buchholz

I knew you would be in the running, but no. Hint: it's a French name. Puppies run from $1200 to about $4500.  Incidentally, i love that all my WHHS friends call me "Dave"; it puts me right back in the hallowed halls.


08/22/14 12:34 PM #804    

 

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

David!, is it a Briard?


08/22/14 12:48 PM #805    

 

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

Dave, of course a briard.  I have a neighbor with an all black one.  It is beautiful to watch the dog run  (if that's what you want to call it).  They seem to glide when they run. The dog won our local "dog days parade" several years ago.

Is there a story about that picture too?  Were you rappelling off a ledge in the Pyrenees when you spotted him?


08/22/14 01:09 PM #806    

 

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

Ann, I think that you are confusing David with Nelson!!


08/22/14 01:32 PM #807    

 

David Buchholz

Ann and Gail,  wonderful answers!  But WRONG!  Yes, the Briard is a French dog and looks a whole lot like this one, but (and I'm not an expert by any means), the owners told us the name, and I looked it up on Wikipedia, and it's similar but different.  Another hint:  ithere are 3 words, all French, in its name.

And yes,. Ann, I have enough trouble navigating my stairs, much less the Pyrenees!


08/22/14 01:52 PM #808    

 

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

Okay, David, this is my final guess! Wirehaired Pointing Griffon?? I realize that these are not 3 French words. Perhaps, the translation?!


08/22/14 03:13 PM #809    

 

David Buchholz

To the hundreds of people who submitted names of the breed, thank you for your interest.  The dog is a Bouvier des Flandres.

From Wikipedia:  The Bouvier des Flandres is a herding dog breed originating in Flanders. They were originally used for general farm work including cattle drovingsheep herding, and cart pulling, and nowadays as guard dogs and police dogs, as well as being kept as pets. The French name of the breed means, literally, "Cow Herder of Flanders", referring to the Flemish origin of the breed. Other names for the breed are Toucheur de Boeuf (cattle driver), Vlaamse Koehond (Flemish cow dog), and Vuilbaard (dirty beard).


08/22/14 04:45 PM #810    

 

Jerry Ochs

Nancy et al.,

To save a photo on a Windows computer, move the cursor over the photo, click the right-side button, then choose Save image from the dropdown menu that will appear.


08/22/14 07:04 PM #811    

 

Philip Spiess

Shucks, Dave, you gave away the answer before I had a chance to guess.  Having looked carefully at the photograph, I was going to guess it was Dale Gieringer in mufti, but then you hit me with a French name, and, unless Dale's ancestors came from Alsace-Lorraine, that knocked me out of the running.  And I thought Briard was a type of cheese.  (No, don't tell me I'm thinking of Brie; I love Brie -- I make an oyster stew using it -- and anytime I face some Brie, it soon is de-bris.)

Okay, boys and girls:  Time for our weekly "Sursum ad Summum" Challenge, or "Trivia for the Over-Educated" (by the way, extra points if you can say immediately where "Trivia" comes from):  What well-known literary work is inevitably invoked by the bartender when you order a classic Martini?

 

 

 


08/22/14 07:12 PM #812    

 

Larry Klein

Phil - "From Russia With Love", and make it shaken, not stirred!


08/22/14 09:18 PM #813    

 

David Buchholz

Good news, everybody.  I think I've been prevented from uploading photographs. See you in two years!

 

 


08/22/14 10:32 PM #814    

 

Nancy Messer

Jerry - thanks for the info.  I wanted to print Dave's photo of the one red flower taken very close up.  I followed your instructions and it looks fantastic.  The flower takes up the entire 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper.

Dave - you better not be going anywhere.  You have to keep those photos coming.  Now that Jerry's explained how to make my own copies, I can print as many of your photos as I want to.  And yes, I do know that what I have isn't anywhere as pretty as your originals.

 


08/22/14 11:23 PM #815    

 

Philip Spiess

Larry:  Wow!  Really great response, but -- zzzzt! -- wrong answer!  Larry, 007 had Vodka Martinis ("shaken, not stirred"), and classic Martinis are made with Gin.  (Okay, English majors, what the hell is that "w" doing in the word "answer"?)  And, yes, by the way, that's exactly the way I like my Martinis, vodka, yes, and shaken, not stirred!  (Unless I'm having a Franklin Delano Roosevelt "Dirty Martini" -- see the Tehran Conference with Churchill and Stalin -- with which, by the way, pickled mushrooms go really well!)


08/22/14 11:34 PM #816    

 

Philip Spiess

Dave, what just happened?  "See you in two years"?  Have you been arrested for "over-exposure"?  We've all been really enjoying your photographs -- no overload here, keep 'em coming -- but I do have to ask, if no one has seen most of your photographs (as you said above), how in the hell are you making a living as a professional photographer ("enquiring minds want to know")?

And, yes, your brother Bill was so different from you, that's why I wasn't sure he was your brother.  Next time you talk to him, say "hello" from me.  Not sure that he'll remember me, but I joined Stage Crew as either a 7th or 8th Grader, and Don Dahmann and I made it our constant mission to keep the Prop/Stage Supplies Room in serious order; we found it a mess.  I don't know Bruce Fette's experience on Stage Crew, but your brother really trained Don and me in Stage Tech, which my son is now very much into (he did sound once for Taylor Swift when he was a high school student).


08/22/14 11:55 PM #817    

 

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

Phil, The Great Gatsby?


08/23/14 12:05 AM #818    

 

David Buchholz

Phil, I think there was a software glitch in there somewhere.  However, I thought that if anyone in charge was in his right mind, he would have prevented me from submitting any more photographs.  Groucho said it, didn't he, that "he would never have belonged to a club that would have admitted him as a member?"  I certainly would have prevented me from posting if I were in charge.  

You also asked about how I made a living in photography if no one had seen these.  These are apart from the run-of-the-mill kind of business photographs that I took to make an income.  I'll post a couple of those later, but these were just for me and just for fun.  I like to think that I'm an artist, too  The message forum is truthfully my first and only outlet for showing these.

And my brother on the stage crew is very unlike me.  His father, a widower, married my mother, a widow, when I was 7.  My real last name before 1952 was "Kennedy", and when my mother remarried, so as to make my stepfather feel more like my father, my name was changed to Buchholz.  Bill and I, though very different, are close, and he's planning to move to Berkeley in the next few months when he retires.  We can build sets togerher.

Anyhow, the site is working again.  And because dogs have been a theme for at least one photograph—and we all love Ann's beautiful goldendoodle too—I thought I would post another dog photograph, this one taken of puppies under a filthy stairwell in Varanasi, India.  I had to lie down in the filth to record these puppies, sleeping about a hundred feet or so from the Ganges, which is even dirtier.  Ever swim in a river accompanied by body parts?  I didn't, either. 

 

 


08/23/14 01:15 AM #819    

 

Philip Spiess

Gail, no, though there were certainly cocktails at Gatsby's (yes, it was all during Prohibition), and I could give a dissertation on F. Scott and Zelda's drinking, which was copious (to say nothing of Hemingway's).  But no.    


08/23/14 01:23 AM #820    

 

Philip Spiess

Dave, I think, if I read you correctly, that you're coming back with more photos -- that's good.  I surely think that you realize from these comments that all of us are totally impressed with your work -- yes, very artistic.  The picture of the ice woods alone  -- the one taken at -25 degrees F. -- is almost surrealistic.  These photographs may satisfy you; they astound us.  Keep 'em coming!

As to body parts, beg me to tell the true story of President William Henry Harrison, his son John Scott Harrison, his grandson President Benjamin Harrison, and the story of Cincinnati's Medical College of Ohio and post-Civil War grave-robbing.


08/23/14 10:18 AM #821    

 

Laura Reid (Pease)

Phil, could you post your oyster stew with brie recipe?  It sounds wonderful....it is amazing to me how these posts segue....from les chiens francais to shaken not stirred to Dave's photos to recipes to the situation in Israel...we are either interested in a myriad of things or really scatter brained...which is it?


08/23/14 10:28 AM #822    

 

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

Dave - I'm so glad you will be able to continue posting your artwork to this site. I'm among those who are impressed with your talent. Even after your detailed (and may I add humble) explanation of having "the EYE", we all recognize that it's something that cannot be learned. It's a true gift! The photograph of the puppies, all huddled together on a dirty towel in front of that stark wall brought tears to my eyes. I don't quite know what emotion the picture evokes, but it comes from the same place that makes me know how much I love dogs.  You gave us the back story on the puppies. I'm still waiting to learn how you met the Bouvier des Flandres.

Phil - I'm surprised that prior to your shifting the conversation to literary works mentioning the "classic" Martini, that you didn't jump on the Bouvier reference and relate that to JFK. 

 


08/23/14 11:27 AM #823    

 

David Buchholz

Ann, more than the dogs would bring tears to your eyes in Varanasi.  And the Bouvier des Flandres was with his owners on the beach.  I asked them, "Can I take a photograph of your dog?"  It's that easy.

Laura, the segues are fun, and your question about whether or not we have a myriad of interests or are scatterbrained can be easily answered in this photograph.  My wife and I were surprised to discover that we were involved in (ILEP), the International Landmark Exchange Program, which was designed to make it possible for more people to travel somewhat shorter distances and enjoy landmarks that they otherwise wouldn't have been able to see. 

We had just finished a tour of Notre Dame, taken a boatride on the Seine, and were amazed to see that Agra and Paris had already made an exchange.  For us it was bittersweet, as we had hoped to climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower and discovered to our dismay that there are no steps leading to the top of the dome of the Taj Mahal—at least, steps open to the pubic.  The Paris sky was unusually clear on this day.

Somewhat disappointed, we left France and headed to Cairo for a boatride down the Amazon. 

And Mr. Ochs...welcome to the forum.  Any images of Japan?

 


08/23/14 05:54 PM #824    

 

Larry Klein

Dave - either Cairo just moved to South America, or the Amazon just got about 4000 miles longer.??  I want to see THAT photograph!

Maybe Laura had a point earlier?


08/23/14 08:56 PM #825    

 

Philip Spiess

Laura:  Here's the recipe for OYSTER BRIE SOUP:

Ingredients:                    Serves 4

1/4 lb. (1 stick) of butter        1/4 cup of all-purpose flour        8 oz. Brie (rind removed) - may be cut up

2 cups of milk        1 cup of oyster water (liquid)        1 cup of heavy cream        1 cup of white wine (dry)

2 tsps. Tabasco sauce        1/4 tsp. salt        1/2 tsp. coarsely-ground black pepper

18 shucked oysters (more or less)        2 Tblsps. finely chopped green onions (scallions)

1/4 tsp. tarragon

In a medium saucepan, melt butter over medium heat.  Whisk in the flour.  Add the Brie, milk, oyster water (oyster liquid), heavy cream, and wine.  Stir constantly until all of the cheese is melted.  Add Tabasco, salt, and pepper.  Bring to a boil.  Add the oysters, green onion (scallions), and tarragon.  Cook until the oysters curl, about 4 to 5 minutes.  Serve hot with crusty French bread (which you can serve on top of the soup).  Recommended additions to make a meal:  hearty green salad with lots of different cut-up vegetables in it, your favorite white wine, and, for dessert, cut-up fresh peaches in a honey-and-rose wine sauce.


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