Badminton Horse Trials

Borderfox

Spent Friday and Saturday at the Badminton Horse Trials, working for a magazine and also freelance. Good weekend met a lot of other Photographers and the action was excellent. For those who dont know the event takes place over three days and combines Dressage, Cross Country and Showjumping. Very tough on both rider and horse. Here are some of the shots that I have gone through so far, I shot raw for the most part (thinking of sponsors and advertisers) and used a Canon 1dmk3 and a Sigma 120-300 f2.8 with a 5d and 70-200 f2.8IS as backup.

Overall Winner Nicolas Touzaint from France


William Fox Pitt


Matthew Wright


Zara Phillips


Pride only hurt

Paulw

Some stunning shots. I watched some of it yesterday on TV. Some interesting spills at the water.

Well done.

City-Exile

Nice shots.
More of Zara, please.

Borderfox

I will try

Dink

Lovely shots Keith, I'd say it was very exciting to be at Badminton!!

OnLooker

Keith, lovely shots as usual.

Dodgykeeper

Great shots, would love to shoot something like this, is there any cross country events coming uo near Dublin.

Saw a feature on TV on one of the news programs about how dangerous and the amount of fatalities in this sport.

Borderfox

The Tattersalls Horse trials are on at the end of May.

shepthedog

The horses expression in number 3 is absolutely class..
Brilliant set of shots! Crystal clear..

Borderfox

Hang on !!


Sea Horse

Dodgykeeper

Is that at punchestown, Will Zara be there? Will her Mother or Granny be there?

Borderfox

Its out opposite Fairyhouse racecourse http://www.tattersalls.ie/events/index.html very good event.

MartMax

some good shots there Keith, i like especially the first on your 2nd post.

i must say i'm tempted to be around at The Tattersalls this end of month. how do i get closer access to the circuit?

Borderfox

Access will be quite close anyway without press passes so no worries there

Valentia

Some crackers there Keith. Fair play!