More Photos from the 2008 Worlds Championship Horse Show

The Grey horse would NOT put his/her ears forward for anything! I tried so hard to get a good picture of him/her because I love greys..

Happy Halloween!

I really like Halloween. I don't LOVE it and go nutso or all out during this time of year but I really like it.

We used to live in a smaller town than we live in now, and it was a very friendly place. The little neighborhood where we had our first little house would come together during Halloween. We'd all sit on our porches and talk and get to know one another and look at all of the childern's adorable costumes. I miss that a lot. Maybe we can start the tradition here in our new neighborhood.

This year is different for me because it is my Son's first Halloween. He is going to be a dinosaur. I hemmed and hawed quite a bit over what I would dress him as because (stupid me!) most of the costumes that my husband and I liked a lot were sold out by Oct 1. He is going to his grandparents today and I am going to put him in his costume to get pictures of him with them. Unfortunately it's supposed to be unseasonably warm here today so I can't keep the costume on him too long cause the poor guy will get too hot!

You may or may not know that I am proudly owned by two black cats. They were litter mates and we adopted them from the Shelby County Kentucky no kill Shelter. My husband was forced to give up a black cat when he started seeing me because my cat at the time had FIP. When my cat Max died of Cancer a few years later our house was very empty and lonely. Every noise I heard, that I was used to attributing to Max, only made me miss her more. I looked online at the local shelter and they had a litter of black cats that needed adoption and I knew that the universe was telling us to go see them. Thats when we went to adopt Sahara and Lill.

They have been a joy in our lives ever since. There is nothing like the love one recieves from a pet.

Ok! Since this is a photography blog, how about gettin to the pictures!

The first picture is a photo of our fake pumpkins on my front porch. No fire involved so that I won't burn my hand off.(I am a SERIOUS clutz) :-) Taken with my Canon Rebel XTI 400D with my 70-200mm IS USM zoom lens (it's the clearest lens I own and I love it!) Set to AV mode f5.0 aperature and a 1/30, ISO 200 shutter speed. (It was just after dawn when I took it this morning)

The second picture is of Sahara. Again, same camera, AV mode, F2.8, 1/10 shutter. ISO 800. taken in September.

The next two photos are of the trees in my back yard, this morning right around dawn. ISO 800, AV mode, F5.0 and really slow shutter speeds. I used the posts on my deck as a tripod because there is no way I could've gotten a good photo just hand holding my big ole zoom.

I am still ever so slowly going through my photos from the Worlds Championship Horse Show and I spotted a few good ones that I'll be uploading sometime later.

SITS

I joined the "Secret is in the Sauce" sisterhood today! I love when women help out other women like this! :-)

I haven't had any time to photograph anything recently except my son.. it's just been too busy around here! I need to go out and photograph some leaves in my back yard because they're finally turning to beautiful Fall colors :-)

Breeders Cup Horses

This past June, I was fortunate enough to be at Churchill Downs on the "Stephen Foster Handicap" Day. On this day, I was lucky enough to be able to photograph some great racehorses. Most important of these horses was Curlin. I am so glad that I was able to see him run in person! Above are my photos from the day of Curlin, Hysterical Lady, Einsteine and Pyro, My Pal Charlie, and Visionaire.

Busy again!

This month has been very busy. Not with anything specific but with a lot of little things. I finished the photos from the Festivale of Endangered Equines and I've been working on the photos from the 2008 Worlds Championship Horse Show.

Other than that, I haven't really been out photographing anything specific. I did photograph the horses from the post office again but not with a lot of luck. I just love that little grey mare that lives there. If I had the money and the room, she'd be mine (if she were for sale).

more polo photos.. last ones I swear!

More Polo

I took 1200 Pictures of Polo. I only like about 90 so far. I'm being very picky about them.. :-) I can't wake up today either! It's this fall weather! It makes me want to snuggle up in bed.. heheeh

Fall light in my backyard

When I was going to school as a kid, I didn't really care for fall. I also hate to be cold so the second half of every year was kinda of a bummer to me. Now though, I can see the beauty in the changing light and the crispness of the air.

last night I shot a couple of trees in my back yard. The light was hitting the vines on them and highlighting them beautifully.