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As a photographer, I’ve captured images of many things: flowers, buildings, people, natural scenes, the various “stuff” that wanders into and out of our lives every day. Yet, I keep coming back to horses. I’ve based my photography business on this fact and identify myself as an “Equestrian Photographer” or an “Equine Photographer”. I often wonder: why a horse? Continue Reading…
Yesterday was the Bucks County Horse Park’s Hunter Pace to benefit the Huntingdon Valley Hunt Pony Club. Unfortunately the weather decided to be problematic (rain was forecast for the entire day – and it pretty much lived up to that prediction). Equestrian photography isn’t always of a fair-weather gig – so I, as well as five teams of horse-people as crazy as I am, showed up anyway to hang out in the rain and general dreariness that is a Pennsylvania Spring. I have to admit, it was still a fun time; once you’re completely soaked, there’s a tendency to just go with it and everyone was in high spirits (maybe a little “punch-drunk”).
For a look at gray skies, dripping rain, and happy people, the images from the April 23 BCHP Hunter Pace are now available for preview and purchase in the Galleries under Horse Show Proofs -> BCHP or directly by pointing your browser to http://gallery.stephencrowersphotography.com/bchp20110423hp
This past Sunday was the Bucks County Horse Park’s first horse show of the 2011 season – a Combined Training event. It was very well attended at a little over a hundred competitors and allowed me to try out a few things – as this was also one of the bigger events I’ve done under my business (I am often a “second shooter” for Horse Trials, but for this one I needed to be the one bringing in an additional photographer). I have also changed things around a bit this year for my shows as I’m moving to a (roughly) sign-up-only model of shooting.
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