The Shelbyville (ky) Horse Show (saddlebreds)

I had a marvelous time this past saturday at the Annual Shelbyville Horse show. I would've wished for better lighting conditions but beggars can't be choosers! Here are just a few of the photos that I took. I'll be adding more when I get time.. Enjoy these beautiful horses!

Photos from Breyerfest 2009!

I have sooo much to catch up on a post but I'm exhausted and still recovering from my "whirlwind" trip to Upstate ny (Cooperstown!) and then to Lexington, KY for Breyerfest. Here are just a few photos of the horses at the horsepark...

The chestnut Fellow had a halter on him that said "Evergreen" on one side. I have no idea if that's really his name or just a Halter that the staff used.

Daylillies!

Fall of last year I bought some new daylillies so that I would have more flowers to take pictures of this year. Above are my new daylilies!

I'll also have more Egyptian Event Photos soon..

More Egyptian Event PHotos..

Images from saturday at the 2009 Egyptian Event

I'm thrilled to say that I got one or two decent photos out of the batch that I took Saturday while at the Kentucky Horse park to watch the 2009 Egyptian Event Arabian Horse Show. It was a little sad to see that Imperial Arabians' tent was no longer in the parking lot and that Ansata didn't bring any horses, but thus is the way of time. I wish I had appreciated both farms more when they were there. Imperial is "no more" and Ansata lost it's Patriarch, Donald Forbis.

Still, there were beautiful horses to be seen, and photographed although I'm absolutely sure I did them no justice. I was woefully out of practice..

While I was there I also made sure to see the Scott Trees Exhibit. What an amazing and beautiful group of photographs. It reminded my why I admire Scott so much. I was feeling a little "flat" when I went in and when I left, I was so inspired! If you live close enough to the Kentucky Horse park to see it, I highly recommend it!

I'm back! Sorry for the Hiatus!

My apologies for the long hiatus. I have been taking photos of my son mostly and I've backed off of the idea of being a professional photographer. I just have no idea how to get the business started and where to go from there.. so for now, I'll just take photos of what I like and hope that others like them too. Also, if you DO happen to want a copy, I have them uploaded on my sales site http://www.abounaderphoto.com

These photos are from the 2009 Egyptian Event Arabian Horse show held at the Kentucky Horse Park. These are from some of the classes on monday night.

Yikes!

I didn't realize it had been so long since I posted! This winter has been very busy, with munchkin turning a year older and running around the house. I don't have a lot of time now to do photography unfortunately. I've also ramped up my miniatures production so that has taken up a lot of time too.

I do have one more photo to share from the Icestorm of Winter 2009 here in Louisville.

It is of one of the Hawks out back on a frozen tree branch against the bluest sky! I really need to get that 100mm - 400 mm Zoom though!!

Ice and Snow

I really love snow. Thankfully, here in the Ohio Valley, we don't get enough snow to get sick of it. Usually our winters are fairly mild. This year we've gotten more snow than we have in the past couple of years. Unfortunately though, we got ice along with it this time and a lot of folks are without power around here.

Still the snow makes everything look more beautiful than it actually is, and it's that fantasy that I like a lot.

The last picture above has not been photoshopped in anyway other than to do levels. (contrast, brightness etc). There really was a bright cloud with the sun shining through it onto the tree in the sky. It was amazing and I was so lucky to have captured it!

Sorry!!

I'm so sorry that I've been so remiss in posting to the blog! January has been busy and the whole family has had colds. The light in winter isn't the greatest for getting photos either. Lots of grey days where I am.

Above are some images that I pulled off the camera this week. They are of Sunsets that occurred recently here in Kentucky. I'm very pleased with them albeit they are a tad cliche.

Enjoy! If you would like prints of any of my photos, please feel free to let me know. Not all of them are up on the smugmug page yet.

Happy New Year!

New years are always great aren't they? All about new beginnings, new hopes, etc.. Until of course about January 28th when you realize that the post holiday let down has begun and no one gets any holidays off until much later..hahahaha

I hope that this year I Get out of the house a LOT More, WITH the camera and that I become better at taking photos. I hope that you and your family have a wonderful new year and that all of your goals are accomplished :-)