Sometimes blogging is a chore. Last week I had 0 motivation to get content up. While I usually have several posts in a queue in case there’s nothing current to say, my well ran dry last week and I had no desire to build it back up. This week I actually do have some post ideas, but spending some r&r time with the husband is more important. So you get my handsome Simon. The post processing on these is pretty…
Late blog post today because I guess with a dead cell phone and no dogs to wake me up… I needed to catch up on sleep. A lot of sleep. Over 12 hours of sleep – whoops! So anyway, last weekend at Pin Oak more than one person commented to me about how the junior riders looked like they weren’t having any fun. Pairing that with a conversation with a friend who told me about a horrible show of…
Still editing photos from over the weekend, but I’m going to have to step on it because I’m heading out of town for a long weekend to go home to North Carolina. Simonista is getting some training rides and a lesson taken by a friend while I spend some quality time with family. The blog won’t go silent though, as I will have some Pin Oak goodness and other posts ready for y’all. Say what you want about hunter braids,…
It had been a really long time since I had taken images I was happy with at a nice horse show. With the heritage Pin Oak Charity Horse Show a mere two hour drive away, I decided to trek out this weekend in search of some AA pony time. And I found ponies, literally. Also junior hunters, adult jumpers, and some AO/junior jumpers. All the pretty horses essentially. Being me, I tried to take a series of photographs to turn into…
Originally I pictured this post being full of items deep from the trenches of the internet, but then some awesome bloggers were WAY more creative than I was to begin with and did a stellar job with all of their own photographs. Braymere Custom Saddlery took this idea to my favorite 1:9 scale world, and I cooed over the photos like a small child. Then Carly from Poor Woman Showing won at life with the amazing Bobby, and Sprinkler Bandit did…
After doing my 30 before 30, I decided a year long birthday challenge was something fun to add to my yearly blog goals. However, I didn’t want to do another horse bucket list this year. Therefore, I asked readers to help me come up with photography ideas that they would like to see on the blog. It was fun reading everyone’s suggestions! I took all of them to heart, and added some of my own as well. Some were modified…
For the first time in four years, I won’t be traveling to watch the Winter Equestrian Festival this year. I’m a little sad about it. It was always a good time visiting one of my closest friends. Even above that, there’s nothing in the world like WEF. When they describe it as horsey disneyland… they aren’t joking! I often hear that people found my blog through the WEF posts, and a small, silly part of me thinks I may be…
Rant alert – one of my biggest pet peeves is to see people willy nilly posting professional show proofs on Instagram. Yes, they’re of your horse who’s adorable and amazing. Yes, there is almost always a way to save the picture from the photographer’s website. No, that doesn’t make it okay to use. I realized a while ago, that many people just don’t know that this isn’t okay. While the world of photography and social media has a lot of…