Pictures from Freeville

   Here are some of my favorite shots from the Freeville barn pictures. Enjoy and Happy Mothers Day!


  
   This is Sketchers, as I was walking around his paddock to get to the pastures he followed me along the fence line. So adorable! I love the texture of the fence here. I have a mini-series of shots like this.

   This is also Sketchers, he is the cutest most curious little pony. I love him already.

So the shorter horse that is closer to the camera is Sketchers again and the large Belgian in the background is Diesel. I love the size difference here. Sketchers can barely reach the top of the fence and Diesel is towering above the fence. I just love the contrast.

   I love the movement in this shot.

"Just a Horse"

   I went to Misty today and as I was putting my lunch into the fridge I started to read this paper that was on the front. It was called "Just a Horse." I immediately loved it, it was everything that I felt and couldn't put into words. I have decided that this will be the name of my healing series. "Just a Horse" I fell in love with it so much that I asked Holly if I could have a copy, she said I could take that one and she would print out another for the barn. So here it is "Just a Horse", Author Unknown.

     From time to time, people tell me, “lighten up, it’s just a horse,”or,”that’s a lot of money for just a horse”. 

They don’t understand the distance travelled, the time spent, or the costs involved for “just a horse.” 

Some of my proudest moments have come about with “just a horse.” 

Many hours have passed and my only company was “just a horse,” but I did not once feel slighted. 

Some of my saddest moments have been brought about by “just a horse,” and in those days of darkness, the gentle touch of “just a horse” gave me comfort and reason to overcome the day.

If you, too, think it’s “just a horse,” then you will probably understand phrases like “just a friend,” “just a sunrise,” or “just a promise.”

 “Just a horse” brings into my life the very essence of friendship, trust, and pure unbridled joy. 

“Just a horse” brings out the compassion and patience that make me a better person. 

Because of “just a horse” I will rise early, take long walks and look longingly to the future.

 So for me and folks like me, it’s not “just a horse” but an embodiment of all the hopes and dreams of the future, the fond memories of the past, and the pure joy of the moment. 

“Just a horse” brings out what’s good in me and diverts my thoughts away from myself and the worries of the day. 

I hope that someday they can understand that it’s not “just a horse” but the thing that gives me humanity and keeps me from being “just a woman.”

 So the next time you hear the phrase “just a horse” just smile, because they “just” don’t understand.

Project in a Project

   So this past class we got an assignment. This assignment is to create another way of representing your project, a newspaper article or something like that. One of the options was to create a soundtrack for your project and this is what I plan to do. There is a minimum of 10 songs and I have to write a paragraph on each song that I include on my playlist. Obviously I'm going to include "Wild Horses" as that was a huge inspiration for my project. I also have alot of other songs I have in mind including "All the Pretty Little Ponies" and some others. I want this playlist to not only reflect my project in title but also in the lyrics. I'll be listening to my entire iTunes library soon so that I can figure out songs I want.
   Here are a couple of the photos I took at the barn out in Freeville.

Thank God for Dads

     Soooo you know how I lost like all 200 of my photos from the Freeville barn and I had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I would have to go back and take all new pictures? Yeah well Dad to the rescue!!!! He used a recovery program to get the files back and now I have all of the pictures again. I cannot tell you how happy I am at the moment. My Dad just saved me so much time and energy!! I'm really excited to see how they really turned out. I'll post some pictures later. Thank you so much Daddy!!!

More edited photos

    I have edited almost 20 photos finished and edited. I still have a ton to edit and add text to but this is huge considering I got 20 done in two days! I love productiveness!! Also I have emailed three local photographers in regards to meeting up with with them to talk pricing, framing and hanging in general. Anyways here are some of the most recent photos with text, as well as some others that will not have text.

    Please leave a comment with any criticism, things you think I should change or that you like, thanks!!

Great!!!!! (please note the sarcasm)

    So the day started off really well, I got contact information of local photographers whom I will be contacting later in the week to make an appointment to visit their studios and talk with them about their photography. And also I went up to Healing Rein Farm and took lots of pictures.
    When I got to Healing Rein, a woman named Peggy was there to meet me, she told me that Lauren had taken a bad fall last night and was unable to meet me today. Good news is Lauren is ok. Also a funny little thing is that I knew Peggy from intercession polo, so that was cool. I learned that Judy, a teacher at my school, photography wonder who I am getting ideas from and just working in her room during free periods, leases a horse there. It was soo strange that of all the barns in the Ithaca area, this was the one that Judy, Peggy and other people I had heard of all ride there. So Peggy showed me around the farm, introduced me to Jodi as well as all the horses. I got tons of great shots and I was soo excited to edit them.

   Then disaster struck, somehow while I was importing my photos to my computer they got deleted. I mean gone, poof thats it. So pretty much an hours worth of photos were gone. :( UGHHH I had another SD card that had some pictures on it but out of 200 photos I got to import about 15. Soooo dejected right now.

      I'm going to have to make another time to meet Lauren at the barn so I can take pictures. I'm also going to ask Judy if I could go with her when she rides. In the meantime I will be continuing to edit the pictures I do have and making more appointments with friends and such to photograph their horses. Here is another picture I took on Saturday, yesterday, and edited.

Pictures from this weekend

    This is Annie Oakley from the Misty barn. She is a paint mare who we think is pregnant!! We're keeping an eye on her until we know for sure.