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Foto Friday: Horton hears a Who?

04/15/2011 20:45:00

For anyone that has children or grand children you may have seen or heard of the movie Horton Hears a Who. Very cute movie, my boys enjoyed it very much. Well, when I had purchased my Nikkor Micro lens a while back, I was very excited about the whole new "photographic world" I was going to enter and it reminded me of this movie. Everyday in our lives we go about our business and very rarely ever stop to smell the flowers. With this new lens, I not only get to stop and smell the flowers, I get the chance to see all their little parts, plus other cool stuff. Im not expecting to find a village of Whos on any of these flowers, but I am hoping to enjoy the little tiny pieces and parts that we often miss. I hope you will enjoy these few photos that I took just a few feet from my pond today. I had a blast exploring this whole new world. Im guessing that these images could have possibly been captured with my 70-200 lens, but I would have missed out on getting down on the ground and really observing what everything looks like.

New Idea!

04/09/2011 21:07:00

I must admit that I hate blogging. I guess I feel like Im just not sure what people would like/want to read about. So I've been thinking of an idea. Foto Fridays! I am going to make sure that evey Friday I have my camera with me and I will photograph all the interesting things I see along my daily journey. I'll warn you, I am pretty boring sometimes. I thought along with those photographs I will put up my settings and compare several shots as well. It will be my images so I won't mind picking them apart. Some Fridays may have some horses some Fridays might not. If anyone local to Central Maine would like to join in the fun please email or call. Have a great Sunday Friends :) See you next Friday, Unbridled Photography

Gymnastics is more like dressage then one might think.

03/14/2011 12:30:00

I had the chance to photograph a girl at her gymnastics meet this past weekend. I'm one of those photographers that will photograph anything at least once, most anything. I love a new challenge and took this as an adventure. As I started watching the gymnast warm up and then compete, it came to me that I should feel very comfortable in this arena. I was basically at a dressage show with no horses.

The girls were dressed in their show attire. They braided their manes so beautifully. They all had set test with special movements they had to perform, unless they were at a higher level, then they could perform kind of a free style. They had to wait for the judge to salute them and then they saluted at the beginning and end of their test. The judge had a helper, similar to a scribe, whom would hold up the scores after the final tally.

I had a wonderful time photographing gymnastics. I will have to study up some more for the next time I get to photograph this horseless dressage show!

What about the off season?

12/09/2010 19:29:00

The show season is over and the awards have all been handed out. So what to do in the winter months? It's the perfect time to have some fun photos taken in a winter wonderland. Most people don't bother having their horses photographed in the winter because they aren't all sleak and shiney. They have their wolly winter coats on. Just imagine a photo of you snuggled up to your furry four legged friend and breathing in the winter air. You both have on an extra layer, but the photo is priceless! And in some hot cocco and it's perfect :)

To Blog or Not to Blog, that is the question.

10/08/2010 16:55:00

I have put this off long enough I guess. Im not much of a writer, so up until now I have given myself plenty of reasons why not to blog. I have had a few ideas this summer though that I thought if I had a blog I could share this. So here goes blogging, for fun :)