Kristin-Senior Photos

Yesterday I got to shoot senior photos for a very nice girl named Kristin. I met Kristin a couple of years ago at the local fair and she had purchased some prints of her and her horse that I had taken. It was a beautiful day, couldn't ask for any better weather!! I had fun and enjoyed meeting her parents, the two little dogs, who's names I don't know and Kristin's dog Baby Girl. Here are some of my favorites from yesterday.

Wild Mustang Story

Any of you that really know me know that I have a real special thing for Wild Mustangs. Those of you that do not know me, well now you know that I have a very special thing for Wild Mustangs!!

I adopted a wild mustang about 8 years ago. "Cowboy" has been a very special part of my life. I did not have him for almost 2 years after a divorce, but I found him through a for sale ad and bought him back!! Talk about a cool story, still gives me goose bumps!!




I found a draft of a post about wild mustangs that I never did publish to this blog . . .but now I have even more to share with you, so it turned out to be a good thing.

I recently photographed some wild mustangs at a BLM (Bureau of Land Management) Adoption that was held at Ride the West. This is the 2nd one I've been able to get photos of and they are some of my all time favorite images. Here are a few of my favorites.


OK, now for the rest of the reason I wanted to write about mustangs. Below is a link to some very incredible images of an abandoned wild mustang foal and a wild mustang stallion who found and protected him. This photographer has many other beautiful images of wild mustangs so I encourage you to look at her website. BUT, first please read her story and view the images of the foal and the stallion. I'm not sure why, but when I looked at the images, I just started crying . . . I think it is just an amazing story!!

http://www.nickolesphotography.com/Images/Stallion-Foal/index.htm

Wendy

Upcoming Photo Shoots

Hello Everyone, Due to some health issues, I've had to cancel all of my scheduled photo work for the rest of the year. If you are interested in knowing more about this, please visit my Personal Blog at

http://www.wendyspersonaljourney.blogspot.com/

BUT, I am going to squeeze in a couple of shoots this weekend. One is for a very nice girl that I took photos of a couple years ago at a local horse show. On Sunday we will be doing her Senior Pictures. I'm thinking we will have a lot of fun and hopefully get some great images for her. I will post some of them next week. On Saturday I'm headed up to Spirit Lake, not too far away, maybe 20-30 minutes max. I'm going to be meeting a trainer that I photographed at Ride the West last month. Her name is Susan Kirk and she and her mustang Mac put on an at liberty performance at the Spirit of the West Show on Friday night. Then on Saturday I photographed her working with a wild mustang, doing a horse gentling clinic. Saturday she will be working with 1 and maybe 2 of the mustangs that were adopted at Ride the West last month. She lives about 6-8 hours from here, so when she asked if I'd like to take some photos of her working with the mustang, especially since she will be so close to me . . . . . heck, how could I refuse!! I totally love mustangs and I was really impressed watching her work with them, so this should be a lot of fun as well as a great photo opportunity.
Here are some images of her and Big Mac and a couple of her and the wild mustang. If you want to learn more about Susan, please visit her website at http://www.blackriverquarterhorseranch.com/index.php