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Mr. Sparagowski continued:
“When you go to a beautiful place like this, you must have some element of the monastery in
every picture. Otherwise, you may as well be at the farm. In these cases, the background is as important as the horse. For
example, as with the Polish Ovation Sale in Poland, when
Ray LaCroix took each horse out to stand it up, something in
the background had to say ‘Poland,’ and then we could do
whatever we wanted from there. The same thing was the case
here. Something in the background had to say ‘monastery.’
In this picture
(above)
, I loved the lighting. It still had the
monastery’s feel to it. I changed spots to make sure I had the
statue. The monks were so much a part of the whole thing that
they defined where we were. Otherwise, it could have been
anywhere. I liked the monk’s expressions, especially Brother
Christopher’s who was touching the mare. It really lit his eyes
up and showed in his smile. I thought it was interesting that
they just jumped right in there. It was like they wanted to
be around the horse, and they wanted the experience. They
might remember this for a long time coming. We don’t think of
these things because we do this all the time. We are around the
horses all the time. But, I don’t think there have been too many
Arabian horses back where we were.
”
Top: (l to r) Prior James Albers, OSB; Brother Leven
Harton, OSB; Brother Christopher Start, OSB; and
Brother Simon Baker, OSB
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