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September 24 Stonegate Horse TrialThe course layout of the trial here was nice, if you were at the top of the hill near the barns you could see a good portion of the course. The morning started out not very promising at all. In fact, I was very afraid I'd be getting rained on most of the day, that's how dark and dismally gray it was. But the clouds blew out for a brief while, it got wonderfully bright and sunny and I got some great photos. Only drawback was that it was incredibly windy, so much that it actually blew my camera over when I left it unattended for a couple minutes to return to my chair during a lull in the competition. Thankfully no damage was done, I just had to clean a bit of mud off the eyepiece of the camera and some of the tripod. No serious injuries at this trial that i'm aware of. However, I did see a rider fall, it happened right at the fence I happened to be shooting photos at. Amazingly enough the rider somehow managed to hang onto her reins the whole time, which kept the horse from running off!
Unfortunately this was a split event. Half of it was run yesterday, meaning Saturday. I was not able to make it out to the earlier portion of the event so I have no pictures of Starter or Beginner Novice divisions. The photos I have are of Novice, Training and Preliminary divisions.
Seems time to probably purchase and print out contact cards I would say. I love the requests i'm getting but it's awkward to try and write down website and/or contact information when i'm trying to shoot photos at the same time. Much easier to just hand someone a card and ask to be emailed with the necessary info instead of handwriting everything. Please see previous post for contact info. South Farm againTime flies when there are so many horse trials. I wish to extend a very sincere thank you to the lovely webmistress of the Erie/Lost Hounds website for her kindness in adding a link to this page from their site so other riders could see if there were photos of themselves available.
A note to those who may wish to try and obtain picture files. I'm happy to email them. Just drop me a note to bladedshadow71@yahoo.com with the name of horse and rider and event name and I should be able to do that though I usually resize the images a bit to make them faster to download.
After the Erie Hunt & Saddle Club trial back in August there was another trial the following weekend at South Farm. Pictures from it are already posted onto this site, I just forgot to really post anything regarding the trial itself. Nice event, long delay on start due to fog, but turned out rather nice after it finally burned off. I was fairly pleased with the photos, though they perhpas did not turn out quite as well as those from the July trial.
I'm getting a slowly increasing number of requests for photos to be emailed. I'm truly thrilled to see it, at this time i'm more than happy to email pictures I may have of riders and their horses. I do not do this professionally. I have loved horses since I was a child. My mother actually did hunter/jumper showing back in her teenage years, and horses were a major part of my family when I was quite young. I never got into riding nearly as much as I would have liked, so photos are the next best thing. I personally simply enjoy trying to make photos available, even if they aren't really professional quality. Eventually I'd like to start doing it professionally or semi-professionally perhaps. But for now i'm more than delighted to try and email pictures to riders and their parents. |
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