Equine Portraits - Horses and Owners

I had a couple of hours with two friends of mine, and their horses, which gave us some nice portrait shots, which I must get around to printing up. 

Following the Hunt

It has been a fun half term with the children, getting up early twice this week to follow the local hunt after an introduction from a friend.  They are a nice lot, and I have managed to shoot some decent photographs.  I have set up an account for commercial retail of photographs.  No idea if it will come to much.  Not without marketing I suppose.  Some more hunting shots here.

With the right lighting even a modest mirror-less camera can return some nice images - here boy child and dog, with my Samsung NX300.

Horses for Courses

I was riding in Dubai last year out at a Desert Resort off the Dubai to Al Ain road.  We got up early to be there for a sunrise get go before the heat of the day.  I snapped a few photographs afterwards, of the horses and camels.  Most have just sat in a file since, and I came across this the other day.  The groom has a face with character.  There are more snaps of horses at home and far away here.

Rear Gunner, Helmand

Wow, this all seems such a long time ago...  Flying fast and low level out of LKG over the Green Zone, then popping up to high level at the edge of the desert.  Interesting times.  Fun times.  Worthwhile times, mainly.  Aviation in Helmand

Mountains and Sea

This could be mountains in the mist - but is not:  Muscat to Dubai revisited

Beauty and the Beast

At home for a while.  My neighbors are a really talented bunch.  This is a customer car they have more or less re-built from scratch.  It is Beauty and the Beast; AC Cobra