Equestrian Photos Thread

dave66

Back off, you're too close

dave66

Catch me if you can ...

dave66

charlieIRL

My daughter in love with her pony!!

emma-fly

Our horse Spencer and George the pointer are the best of friends.

Ah_Yeah

Finally brought my new horsey home on Saturday! Her name is Betsey and I've just got her on long-term loan, very excited for all the horsey adventures



My favourite picture

charlieIRL

i got a new camera at the weekend, bit of a step up from my old trusty Canon EOS 350D, am still trying to get the hang of it so brought it with me today when my daughter was doing some flat work with the ponies. Unfortunately I had to reduce them to upload but the originals came out lovely and crisp. Have to join the local photography club to try get my best out of it.
I've no idea how to touch up photos or post edit them any way so any tips etc. please pass them on.

Rips

Photos from the Trec Ireland Open Championships last weekend... unfortunately I am restricted from what I can put up as most have not been purchased.

Ave Sodalis

Myself and the main man of the day!



"Hi friend!" Possibly one of my favourite photos.







That's a nope then...

ilovemarmite

An amazing dad who takes photos like a pro was taking pics at our yards summer sj show this weekend. He captured a couple nice ones of me and my boy in action in the Maxi class and the last pic is one I took of my pretty happy appy after a bath a few weeks ago

mariannewims

Thanks Ilovemarmite, I love appaloosas, your lad is beautiful!

ilovemarmite

mariannewims wrote: »

Thanks Ilovemarmite, I love appaloosas, your lad is beautiful!

aw thank you so much, I love him so much, he is a quirky cutie

dave66

JillyQ

dave66 wrote: »

Dave they are beauties

Ah_Yeah

The cleanest she has been (and probably ever will be!)

emma-fly

Spencer and I managed to get our first clear round showjumping! Up until now I always managed to knock the first jump (Being to relaxed about the whole thing) or last jump(Getting too excited about having a clear round a little too early).

It was only 90cm but we are hoping to move up to 1m as soon as we manage to get another 1 or 2 clears...

He has been off lame for 2 weeks but this weekend we are going to be back and ready for more jumping!

charlieIRL

Probably my last photos to publish of this fruit cake as he'll be gone Monday, good riddance too!! Looking forward to the new pony already!!

elusiveguy

Looks like a tidy jumper! What was the trouble?

charlieIRL

elusiveguy wrote: »

Looks like a tidy jumper! What was the trouble?

serious pony to jump - but only when he feels like it. He has developed a nasty habit of ducking out of jumps. Perfect and mannerly doing flat work but put a show jump in front of him and its a different story. No problem hunting him which has me baffled.

elusiveguy

charlieIRL wrote: »

serious pony to jump - but only when he feels like it. He has developed a nasty habit of ducking out of jumps. Perfect and mannerly doing flat work but put a show jump in front of him and its a different story. No problem hunting him which has me baffled.

Adrenaline, knowing that the horse in front has a just jumped in with no ill-effects.... Loadsa reasons!! :P

Hard to trust a horse like that tho which only makes the situation worse!

Kevhog1988

elusiveguy wrote: »

Adrenaline, knowing that the horse in front has a just jumped in with no ill-effects.... Loadsa reasons!! :P

Hard to trust a horse like that tho which only makes the situation worse!

Takes a lot of work to get them right…. A strong rider is usually the best option for a few weeks. I used to make a nice few quid in my teens buying ponies like this and reschooling them.

elusiveguy

theemigrant wrote: »

Takes a lot of work to get them right…. A strong rider is usually the best option for a few weeks. I used to make a nice few quid in my teens buying ponies like this and reschooling them.

Yeah, flogging them on, I think, mentally, it would be quite hard to send a horse like that to be 'fixed' and then trust it when it came back

nihicib2

They're blooming everywhere, the speed vans
Just hope its the horse that gets the points!

charlieIRL

Some poor quality photos of the pony I was on about previously - my daughter was out riding him last night, will take some better ones with the proper camera when i get back from holidays. Anyone want to buy a kidney?!!!!:)

TinaOT

What's the breeding CharlieIRL?

charlieIRL

TinaOT wrote: »

What's the breeding CharlieIRL?

I'll get all the details for you over the weekend and let you know.

Btw sorry for filling photo thread with chat, mods feel free to merge posts with my other thread or delete.

charlieIRL

Unfortunately a bit blurred but my 8 year old was taking the pics while i was keeping an eye from inside the arena! She's a dab hand with a camera!!

Ah_Yeah

Our flatwork is really coming along nicely!

Kevhog1988

Ah_Yeah wrote: »

Our flatwork is really coming along nicely!

nice outline. looks to be a big horse. what height is he??

Ah_Yeah

Thank you! Lots of hard work and tears have gone in, so it's good to see progress She's 16.1hh, not too big! She's still losing weight and is naturally a chunky horse though, so she often looks big in pictures