Apassionata 2012

It was my first time at this incredible show and I loved it! Amazing horses and talent.

6-legged horse ;)

I want one of these!

More horses

Yep, I'm still working on getting some human models in front of my camera,
so you'll have to bare these cutie-pies till then. 

Aramis & Vili

My dear little Hooligan.♥

I'm falling for this 28mm....

Noses, noses and more noses. :)

The whole set in my gallery

Gorgeousness

This weekend I attended Sarah-Jane Clarke’s course of classic riding. I had a one hour lesson yesterday and it went very well. Today we had a visiting Andalusian/PRE stallion there, and he was just so gorgeous I had to snap a few photos.

A dog is not the only best friend a man can have

Take a bow

The Horse Fair 2011 @ Tampere

I spent about 4 hours at the fair and ended up with 336 photos. These are the best ones. 

Enjoy and let me know what you think. :)

Kikko Kalliokoski & Sambisto
Kyra Kyrklund's dressage training show

Joona Mickelsson & Dali
Introduction to endurance riding

I'm SMELLing a pattern here

No, my life really doesn't contain anything else than horses.
I live at the stable, I have my own box.


[just kidding...]

c o l d . Do you think I'm over-doing the tones and the vintage effect? The originals are good too, but then I just can't help myself trying how the photos would look like with these kinds of tones and...well, I'm addicted and I'm worrying I'm over-doing it to the point where it's not pretty anymore. Am I???!

Pretti, the Little Miss Sunshine

I took my camera with me to the stable today. I arrived just before the sunset and the lighting was pretty awesome. Pretti got to be my model :)

From this angle she looks a lot like a mule. :P

I love how the beams of light are visible here.

This guy is not Pretti. I was zooming out to the last horse to get just one horse in with the sunset.

Snow!!

The first snow is always the best. ♥ Even though it melts away almost instantly.

I was at the stable when the snow started to fall. Beautiful...

This guy is Hans. Labs (especially the black ones) are my weakness. I have learned to act reasonably and calmly in the presence of dogs (in general and with the energetic ones) after watching a LOT of The Dog Whisperer. But black labs....and especially the males. They just remind me of my family's late dog, Kessu (see picture below), and I lose all my sensibility and just play like a crazy person with them. 

Oh god, I want a puppy......

Rest in peace, my love. ♥

The photos from the stable were taken with my mobile phone so the quality is  ♥  :)