UPWHA Pony Express Show photos are up

All photos from the UPWHA Pony Express Show at Lone Star Ranch are now in my proofing gallery! I love shooting the Pony Express shows as it challenges my versatility as a photographer - Missouri Foxtrotters, Tennessee Walking Horses, western pleasure, hunter pleasure, saddleseat, halter classes, driving classes - these shows have it all and sometimes in the same class! It can get confusing going from a walking horse class to a foxtrotter class and remembering the correct timing for each breed! But it is a blast.

We were blessed with wonderful light for this show - although the dust proved problematic for a few of the classes (in between arena waterings), the light made up for that difficulty. Here are a few images. Well, more than a few. I had a very hard time narrowing them down!



























The vintage costume class was fun!

UPWHA Pony Express Show

I will be posting images from this show starting Sunday late afternoon. They will be going up by class number, in order from class number 1. I am still organizing images from this very large Pony Express Show so be patient! I'll have images going up steadily starting tonight. Thanks! :)

High Point Farm Dressage - photos are up!

All exhibitor photos are posted on my proofing site as of tonight! If you have special requests or questions about ordering, please do let me know. Here are a few shots I quickly grabbed for the blog!

High Point Farm Dressage

Last Saturday I photographed the High Point Farm Dressage Schooling Show in Paola, KS. Exhibitor photos are going online as we speak on my proofing site. I am just over halfway through posting photos, which are going up in alphabetical order by exhibitor last name as I complete them.

A big thanks to John and Nina Fricke for allowing me to come photograph the show. As always, some highlights will be posted here after I finish editing. Next up for SDP will be the United Pleasure Walking Horse Association Pony Express Show in Lee's Summit, Missouri this Saturday the 30th!

Jessica

Saturday I did Jessica's senior shoot. She wanted them taken with her 3 year old Quarter Horse gelding, Goliath. We had some challenges - with gale-force winds and Goliath's occasional lack of patience (he is still a kid, after all!) - but it was all in a day's work and we got some great shots of the two of them! Jessica, and best of luck with Goliath when he goes into training this summer!























What Goliath thought of the proceedings by the time we were finishing up! :)

BA Foxfire+++//

Last night my sister, Stacey, and I got her retired mare Foxfire out for a shoot at sunset. Foxy already has a lot of her winter coat, so we just wanted to play with light and get some artsy shots that didn't draw attention to the fact she's really fuzzy! Here's some of our results. As usual...a ton of fun!