Some photos from a recent visit to our friends up at Chinquapin Hill Farm in Pittsfield, NH..
More photos from this shoot and others at: http://chf.dmg-photography.com
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New foals at Chinquapin
June 20, 2008 – 1:41 pm
We visited our friends at Chinquapin Hill Farm in New Hampshire a couple of weeks ago to discuss our latest venture (more on that soon) and took the opportunity to photograph their foals - just a few weeks old.
Flying Horses
August 1, 2007 – 8:31 pm
The next best thing to photographing wild horses is an outdoor horse show. Unfortunately most of them are late morning/early afternoon events and the lighting is, um, really really bad.
My daughter is a riding instructor at Harmony Horse Stables in Littleton and we occasionally go to shows to watch her ride (as an instructor she doesn’t usually do that much competitive riding) along with others from the barn. She had asked me a few weeks ago to do a little video of her and Duke doing some jumps. Sure.
So two weeks ago Betsy informs me that Cathy has some jumping events at a show in Millis that they go to each Wednesday afternoon in July and August. They’ve been going there the past few years… (long pause) Let me get this straight. There’s an outdoor horse show that takes place in the late afternoon summer light…. Each week… And nobody thought to mention this to me?
So I booked out of work on Wednesday afternoon and headed down to Apple Knoll Farm in Millis. It wasn’t everything I had hoped for (a hill to the west of the farm kills the sweetest light), but these are by far the nicest horse show photographs I’ve ever taken. I can’t make it each week, but we went for a few weeks this year and this is something that will definitely be on the list for next year photographing “Team Harmony”.
See my “Harmony on the Rails” series at http://harmony.dmg-photography.com
Mustangs!
May 6, 2007 – 8:56 pm
Well, we’re back from our trip out west to photograph Wild Mustangs in Colorado and Wyoming. The trip was lead by Charles Glatzer and it was both exhilarating and exhausting. Fortunately the weather was warm and the light was kind. Unfortunately, the horses were wary and they were very challenging to get good photographs of. (We’ll do better NEXT time!)
The mustangs are sequestered in a few areas across the west. In this case the horses share the high desert with some pronghorn antelope, elk, rabbits, eagles, and a few hundred natural gas wells. It was thrilling just to watch their behaviors, the young foals less than a few weeks old running with the groups, the challenges by the stallions, the fighting and the horseplay.
I’ll have more to write about these magnificent animals in the coming weeks, but since so many people have been asking about them, we thought it would be good to share a handful of the better images we took home from this trip.
Please visit the Wild Mustangs Photo Album for a taste of the real wild west.