Chewy

Last Wednesday night I met Janie & her dog, Chewy out at Barber Park for a quick photo shoot.  I have been working with Janie to be the official photographer for the Boise Canine Festival.  The festival will take place August 30-31st at Ann Morrison Park.  We decided that Chewy should be on the official program's front cover.  Here are a few of the photos that we are considering.  My favorite is the 2nd one.

Chewy just LOVES the water and it was so hard keeping him out of it.  After a few minutes we let him go in after a stick & swim around.  You can just see the joy on his face from being in the water!

If you are interested in more information, want to enter your dog in any contests or just want more information on the Canine Festival, check out the website at www.caninefestivals.com

 

Doolittle & Remmy

Last Friday night I went out to visit my friend's Mike & Cathy out in Emmett.  They have a nice farm - Rockinghorse Farm  www.rockinghorsefrm.com. I came out to meet Mike's (new to me) horse Remmy (the white horse) and to see Doolittle (the paint).  I haven't been out to their farm in almost 2 years.  

It was a beautiful night and the light was just gorgeous.  Both Remmy & Doolittle had fun running around in the pasture trying not to get bit up by mosquitoes which were awful!  I snapped a few shots of Mike & his big boys in between trying to get them to run or go out into the grass part of the pasture in the nice light.  You can just tell that he loves both of them!

The last picture is of Stella out in the front pasture right before the sun went down.  I don't think she could have posed any better!

The Backstretch

This morning I got up and met some friends on the backstretch of Les Bois racetrack.  I have been meaning to go down there but first I had to go get my photographer's license at the racing commission.  Me and my friend, Julie had both our cameras out & were taking pictures of some of riders as they rounded the bend and headed into the homestretch.  I snapped a few shots back at the barn too as there is a lot going on back there with horses walking on the horsewalkers & peeking their heads out of their stalls.  

It was great fun watching some of the riders exercise their horses on the track.  The first picture is of my friend, Lindsey - doesn't she look like she is having a blast!  

I have a story about wanting to race horses.  When I was about 12, me and my friend decided we wanted to be jockeys and sent off for information about jockey school.  I grew up in Illinois so there is a lot of racing back there and this is way before the Internet when you had to call or write a letter for information.  We got the info packet filled with the jockey apprentice program and lots of details about what to expect.  As a "tween" we were all on board to do this - when we got old enough of course!  Unfortunately as time went on I grew way to tall to be a jockey and ultimately decided that I would rather jump horses than race them.  Neither one made my mother really happy!

Here are a few pictures from the track this morning.  

Go For Baroque Andalusian Show

This past weekend I photographed at the Go For Baroque Andalusian Show at the Idaho Horse Park.  On Friday I photographed the dressage show which was outdoors.  This show was indoors which was nice since the temperatures ended up reaching 100 degrees and a cold front came thru, bringing high winds for the evening session of the show.  

This was an Andalusian breed show which consisted of in-hand, english, western and vaquero classes.  Everyone looked like they were having a great time showing this weekend and all their horses looked fantastic!  

Here are a few pictures from the weekend.  If you are interested in learning more about Andalusian horses check out the Northwest Andalusian Horse Assoc. website at www.nwaha.org

Go For Baroque Dressage Show

I photographed the Go For Baroque Dressage Show today at the Idaho Horse Park.  Normally I have been posting a few pics on my blog a few days after the show but I thought I would give everyone a sneak peak at a some of the photos from the day.  

Everyone looked like they had great rides.  It was a really hot day with the highs reaching around 95 degrees.  I baked out there standing in the sand arena.  But everyone ended up with great pictures in the end!  

Look for your proofs on Monday night!  Oops!- proofs went up Tuesday morning.  Sorry for the wait but I had 2000+ images to go through and it took a bit longer than expected.   I will be photographing at the Go For Baroque Andalusian Show this weekend.

Jazz in the Canyon

This past weekend Ben & I went to Twin Falls to enjoy Jazz in the Canyon.  We stopped at the visitors center after arriving and got to see 5 base jumpers take the leap off of the Perrine Bridge.  Ben counted the time it took from their jump to landing.  It ranged from 12 to 18 seconds.

After seeing the base jumpers we went to see Shoshone Falls since neither of us has been there.  It was a great place to stop and see the waterfalls as it was pretty impressive.  

After that we drove around the countryside looking for Ben's uncles house.  Unfortunately Google maps gave us directions that were way off and nobody was reachable to get directions.  We eventually got directions and ended up at their house without any other mishaps.

Here are a few pictures from the weekend.  The first couple are of the base jumpers.

Shoshone Falls

A self portrait of Ben & I at Shoshone Falls

Centennial Park at sunset

Our purpose for the visit was to go to Jazz in the Canyon and hear my friend's group - The Jeni Fleming Group.  They did not let us down with a great performance at a beautiful venue.  As always it was great seeing Jeni & Jake (her husband) and hanging out with them for a bit after the concert.  Check out Jeni's website and listen to some great music at www.jenifleming.com

Jeni and I were roommates when we were attending Montana State in Bozeman.  Funny story on how we met - I was calling people from "roommate wanted ads" and Jeni walks up to me and asks if I am looking for a roommate.  I say "yes" and she gives me her number.  I call her the next day and go over to check out the place.  Later that night she calls me with the details and says that she wants me to be her roommate - she has a good feeling about this.  Next thing you know I am moving in.  I ended up living with Jeni for a year and then moving into another apartment with her sister, Heidi for another year until I graduated.  We have been great friends since!

The group playing at Centennial Park as the sun is setting.

Jeni

Jake - Jeni's Husband - jamming on the sax.

Once Upon A Horse

This weekend when I was at Once Upon a Horse photographing the Barbara Cimino Memorial Dressage Show & Combined Test Jan Herrmann asked me to take a few pictures of her mares for her new website.  We did both conformation and at liberty shots.  I also took some casual shots of the horses when they were standing around wondering why these people are chasing them.

It is so much fun for me to shoot these types of sessions. Normally I am photographing everyone at the horse shows or randomly pulling out my camera when I visit my horse.  The horses were cleaned up nicely with braided manes.  It's just so much fun watching the horses run around the field - I just got the added bonus of taking pictures of them.  

The challenging part of this type of session is getting the horses to stand in one place with their feet placed how I want with their eyes open and ears up.  Sometimes that is a lot to ask of some horses - ponies especially.  Usually it just takes a little patience and a quick finger for pressing the shutter button!  

Here are a few pictures from the session.  You can see in them that the light was constantly changing from overcast to blaring sunlight.  Overall they turned out great!

Can you tell that these horses are buddies - they are trotting in unison.