James Sneak Peek

Finally got the chance to shoot James blasting around the ring last week.  Here's a teaser until I get all the editing done:)

More barn pics

Wanted to take some random pics so that I could test out how CS6 handles RAW files (I'm trying the beta), so of course the barn is where I headed!  This purdy horse is one of three stabled at the property behind the barn where I lease James...the cool old tree is on their land too I believe :)

Introducing Bailey:)

My aunt and uncle rescued a little Chi last week from the SPCA.  She's so tiny, I think about 3.5 lbs, and very cuddly!  I'll have to go back another time for better pics (when my daughter isn't there being a distraction LOL!).  For now, here's one:

Can't wait til Spring!

I can hardly wait until the weather starts improving!  I have lots of ideas for shoots!  In the mean time it's more barn pics...but, this time it's of my new lease horse, James.  (And, yes I know I go through horses like socks, but it's not on purpose I swear!  I want a long term lease, unfortunately it hasn't worked out that way yet.)  James is full of personality and I'm looking forward to getting some action shots of him.  He loves to run around, bucking and rearing, it's very amusing :)  For these shots he was kinda tired though...and so was I...plus my camera battery was about to die...so I only took a few detail shots.

Barn Pics

Sorry for the lack of new posts lately, I've been rather uninspired to take pictures with the damp, dreary weather we've had.  I've also been busy making horse hair jewelry.  It's tonnes of fun and I've gone a little over board making bracelets, ear-rings and necklaces.  My house is full of horse hair now LOL!  Link to my site is HERE.

I did take some random pics at the barn a few weeks ago, but I'm not terribly impressed by them...I'll share some non the less (most of them are of Zack cause he's so photogenic:)

And, this isn't the best shot but I have to include one of "my" boy Tango!

P.S.  There's a PBR event in Vancouver near the end of Feb and I sooooo want to go take pics!!!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all of my blog followers!  I hope you enjoy the holidays and have a fantastic, photography-filled 2012!

I goofed around with some X-Mas tree shots last night, but I had been drinking Kahlua and eggnog, so they turned a little psychedelic fairly quickly LOL!  Enjoy...if you can!

Calendars!!

I am now offering calendars filled with my images woop!  (Just in time for Christmas too!)  There are two options, a 12"x18" coil-top bound for $50 or an 11"x17" centre bound for $40.  They are really nice, I just made up one of Isabelle and it turned out great!  You can pick out your own twelve images from my site or I can chose for you if you'd prefer.  Send me an email if you're interested (sooner the better if you want it before Christmas:)

Here's an example of a centre bound one, the pic doesn't do it justice sorry.

 

The Golden Pond

Finally got my butt in gear and drove out to the "Golden Pond" for a mini shoot this morning.  I'm looking at it as a practise shoot since I didn't get the shots I was hoping for.  Having a three year old with you isn't the best way to get birds to approach you LOL!  Next time I'll go solo, pick a spot and sit and wait.  I'd like to get some good wood duck shots...maybe some wigeons too.  Today all I got were mallards, not terribly exciting.  The water looked good though, from the right angle it looks like liquid gold!

Water

We went out to Goldstream a couple of weeks ago and the fall colours were fabulous!  It was also nice to see the salmon earlier in the season when their colours were still vibrant and they hadn't started to die off yet.  For some reason I was hooked on capturing the textures and colours of the water moving over different objects, so this is a watery blog!

I tried to get shots of the salmon coming out of the water when they were jostling each other around, but it was really tricky...the pics didn't really turn out that well...

And, a shot of Izzy too of course!

Eurasier Puppies

I had the most amazing day last Tuesday!  I got to visit two litters of puppies in Cloverdale!!  My friend, Margaret, has a handsome Eurasier stud named Chester.  (Pics of him can be seen here: http://emilymacdonaldphotography.blogspot.com/2011/06/pausing-for-breather.html )  Two of his latest litters of puppies were sired this past summer and were born within less than two weeks of each other, on Sept15th and Sept 28th.  When Margaret invited me to go over with her to see them I jumped at the chance!  There's nothing I love more than fuzzy, chubby puppies :)

For those of you that aren't familiar with the breed, Eurasiers were originally bred in Germany as companion pets.  They are a combination of Chows, Wolfspitz and Samoyeds.  Chester is the first of his breed that I have met, but if he is any indication of the temperaments of the rest of the breed, they are wonderful dogs!  Very friendly, loving and loyal dogs who love to be with their people.  

The puppies we went to visit belong to Judi of Edelweiss Eurasiers:  http://members.shaw.ca/EdelweissEurasiers/

Here is the first litter, they were just shy of six weeks old when we saw them.  (Mom, Faith, is in the first shot.)

The second litter was almost four weeks old.  They were so roly-poly and had the cutest little whimpers.  At one point they all started barking, it was the cutest sound ever!  They were trying so hard to be tough but they sounded so sweet that we couldn't help but laugh! Their mom is Ajona :)

And, some real tangible proof of their cuteness (in case the pics weren't enough haha!):