Our annual Father’s Day branding is here this Saturday, so I figured, why not another installment of my “From the branding pen” Series, right?
Here are more of my favorite photos from this year! They’re all available for purchase if you’re into that sort of thing, and I think that there’s several in this group that may be 2014 Calendar worthy? What do you think?
Sunday morning and afternoon I spent my day branding. I came home, dust-covered, with a splash of blood here and there, just in time to paint some signs and shoot a very darling couple’s engagement portraits!
I wanted to tell a story with this session and I hope I made that happen!
We went down to the creek to a vintage creep feeder and began there. The sun was just giving off that gorgeous, golden light.
This was a fun pose!
This one may be my favorite. Okay, don’t make me choose a favorite!
I am so excited that we have tall, green grass this year!
And now…
Are they not just adorable?
How do you think their photos came out?
Happy Trails!
I’ve taken lots of branding photos so far this year, and because I want to drag out the fun, I’ll be doing a little series on photos that have been snapped in the course of branding season. Some will be by me, others by friends who’ve been lucky enough to have the camera handed to them. I hope you enjoy!
Happy Trails!
For those of you that live in a hole- or have never been to a horse show or looked at an equine sale catalog, or even a “Barrel Horse News” you may not know who Larry Larson is.
Allow me to tell you: he’s a world renowned photographer of equines, and basically does the sale/stallion/promotion photography for most of the big horse ranches here in South Dakota.
He had a show career, and burnt out. Decided he wanted to stay close to the industry and his friends, so he began photographing horses. His photos are very pretty, if you’ve never seen one, but you can google (Larry Larson Horse in Google Images), and find countless examples.
Every year he does a clinic, and this year, my SIL was nice enough to get me a spot for my Birthday! So I spent Mother’s Day Weekend in Rapid City at a gorgeous facility where “Harley D Zip”, a 16x World Champion horse lives. Harley has earned more points, world championship titles and Incentive Fund money than any other horse in the history of the AQHA.
Larry and I have a very different shooting style but no matter. I still learned plenty about how to best set a horse for the shot, how to help level the top-line and when not to use a 3/4 front or rear shot.
I couldn’t help myself and still had to take some artsy shots, but I thought I’d show a few of the photos from the weekend.
There’s lots going on here lately.
Yesterday, Avie and I moved cows out of the creek up to a flat where the hired man finished the job and put them across to greener pastures. It was still an 8 mile ride for us, and I probably should have fed myself a better breakfast before I headed out so I wasn’t dying of starvation by 2pm, which is the time I finally made it back to the corral.
He and the view are sure pretty!
This is what he thought of the whole ordeal when we got back to the barn:
Ho hum!
I made it for a run one day this week and I have to say, where I live is pretty peaceful!
I got to see the sunset from East River (at the steakhouse) one night this week too. It was glorious.
And the sunset from my back deck was pretty spectacular too:
For those of you that missed the announcement, I’m headed to Kentucky for almost a whole week! Since I fly out at an insanely early hour tomorrow, I get to head to Rapid City today, so I’m not leaving here in the middle of the night.
Why, prey tell, am I going to Kentucky? I’ll tell you. I’m going to get a GLIMPSE (find us on twitter at #glimpse) of the future of Agriculture, at the Alltech International Symposium. I’ll be Blogging/Facebooking/Instagram(ing) and Tweeting from the event with a press pass. I’m going to get to attend some seminars on the Equine Athlete, and I’m pretty sure most of my readers will be interested in what I learn there! There’s also, going to be a little soiree at The Kentucky Horse Park. I’m seriously getting to check off my bucket list, folks, and I couldn’t be more grateful. I’ve always wanted to see Kentucky and now I not only get to see it, it’s going to be an educational experience to boot!
There’s plenty of blog fodder from the ranch, already scheduled to post next week, so be sure you come visit my little corner of the www next week.
Now, everyone have a great weekend, be kind to one another and have Happy Trails!
It was Senior Portrait Central here this past weekend. Thursday night, Friday night, and Sunday night I shot seniors, with a Prom thrown in for fun on Saturday night. We will start with the exceptionally gorgeous Eva, whose photos I took on Thursday Evening.
I think they speak for themselves.
And my favorite:
This girl told me she wasn’t photogenic. I think she needs to believe in her herself!
Happy Trails!
