Teasers :: A Girl and her Pony

Teaser from today's shoot. Having an iPhone is so much fun sometimes.

Equine :: Alyssa and ImaFlyin / Mac's Little Gem

Mac's Little Gem

This past weekend, I was able to spend some much needed time out at the barn... and with one of my favorite people. Doing a 'photo-shoot' with Alyssa and her ponies has been something I have been looking forward to doing for a while, and something we have planned to do lots, but for one reason for another, just kept falling through the cracks. I have to say, the largest reason was probably single-handedly the weather. Let's think this through, Mother Nature has thrown us shit until the last two weeks..

Sunday just so happened to be a day I can spend all day out at the barn, a day Alyssa wasn't working, and a day Mother Nature decided to give us some sunshine and warmth... for the most part. We managed to luck out... Between the shoots, it spit and dribbled some rain, after the shoots... it poured.

Alyssa and ImaFlyin "Fayth"

Alyssa was game enough (or stupid enough?) to take out both her current ponies - starting with ImaFlyin (aka Fayth). Fayth her her off the track project horse she's training up, showing a little, and hoping to flip out the door in the next year for some quick cash, and time for her new 'Spruce Meadows' mount. For an otherwise 'meat horse', Fayth has come an exceptionally long way. Although I still don't trust her as far as I can throw her, she is quite smart, and learns quickly...

Fayth does have character...

Following Fayth was her tried and true show mount, Mac's Little Gem (aka Gem). Gem is a star... most of the time. Today was hard, and doing some gymnastic jumps, for whatever reason lost a lot of confidence... so Alyssa worked at building up the confidence, and worked on her own two point position at the same time.

Alyssa and Mac's Little Gem "Gem"

It was definately the day for stupid faces...

In addition to our lovely planning, Alyssa's mother decided to (not so) secretly hint that she had no good photos of her horse, Blue Moon (aka Lily)... So Alyssa and I managed to pull our butts out of the sand, and trudge back and forth throughout the field to get some of those anticipated, coveted shots of Lily...

Blue Moon "Lily"

Alyssa and Lily

Hopefully this one shoot with be the beginning of many...