A Shoot for the HSBV; Also, You Need Holiday Card Photos :)

I'm working on a blog post so I can share some of the photos I did for the Humane Society of Boulder Valley. That post is coming soon.

For now, I wanted to share this one photo to remind you that you need family portraits for this year's Christmas and Holiday cards! We're supposed to get our first snow here on Wednesday, but it'll warm up again by the weekend and there should still be some fall color left next week. I'm booked on Friday, but have spots open on Saturday and Sunday, as well as any weekday afternoon/evening, so give me a holler and we'll set something up. :)

One Shot—Three Rivers Horse Training

One shot from my afternoon with Alex, the owner of Three Rivers Horse Training. You should check out her website and tell her to update her blog more regularly. :) She's quite the horsewoman and just a neat girl to be around.

More to come, but I wanted to get that spider out of the first page of my blog, so I figured I'd share this one for now.

Spider Pants

I have written a song:

Spidey pants
Spidey pants
You like to do the
Spidey dance

I know. It's a good song.

New Pasture

The boys moved to a new pasture yesterday. It's a little bigger than the one they've been in all year, the west boundary is lined with big cottonwoods, there are new, strange horse neighbors, and the water tank is in a different place. A hot air balloon HORSE-EATER flew right overhead this morning. It's all very unnerving for Jay and Orfec. They have no idea what's going on.

Moment of clarity: The new pasture is DIRECTLY ADJACENT to their old pasture. Seriously, it shares a fence line; it has better (not great, but better, and certainly more) grass, so you'd think they'd be pumped about that. But this morning both horses were sweaty from having spent the night running, trying to get back to the "safe" pasture.

I feel bad for them, but I know in a couple days they'll be just fine. It's still hard to watch them get so worked up. Not so hard that I didn't take a couple shots, though ....


Jay coming in to see me. When he's nervous, he definitely likes to be close to me.


Listening to new sounds. These sounds can be heard only from this side of the fence. The other side had safer sounds.


Getting braver.

Benoffee

... or Ben, which is way easier to say. :)

Taken today during fall's true arrival. Rainy and cold with snow in the mountains.

Orfec (Colorado Horse Photography)

Orfec shares a pasture with my horse, Jay. He's a 24-year-old Swedish Warmblood (he's actually from Sweden—fancy!) who was a dressage horse before he was retired. Now he spends his days relaxing in the pasture, just eating grass and soaking up the sun.