Posts Tagged ‘horse show’

Liberty Horse Equestrian Display | South West Photography

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Today was a rather auspicious day – its been a long time coming, but I am very excited to finally be setting up my studio gallery:)  I had planned to just move the boxes in, but got a little carried away and started unpacking everything.  I felt like a kid at Christmas unpacking all of my art supplies, books and art magazines – many of which I havn’t seen for well over 18 months!  My mind is racing with all the things that I want to paint and draw, I really don’t know where to start first – oils, acrylics, colour pencils or something in graphite.  I’d really like to have a go at some plein air oil paintings – all I have to do is step outside my studio for inspiration in every direction, from the beautiful landscape to the baby lambs and calves that are being born on all the farms around here – including ours, but thats a subject for another post, as I really need to catch up on posts that I meant to add last week but ran out of time to!

Following on from my last post with photos of the Clydesdales from the Dardanup Heritage Park Heavy Horse Show, I thought I would share some of the photos of the Team Australia Liberty Horse display performed by brother and sister team, Sam and Sasha Watson from Horses and Horsemen.

The performance shows the willingness, agility, intelligence and responsiveness of these magnificent animals and the incredible relationship that can be created between man and horse.  The display involved a number of different and often very difficult maneuvers, with the liberty horses following instruction and direction from voice and subtle body language cues.  What I found most amazing and awe inspiring was the willingness and enjoyment all the horses displayed, they were clearly enjoying the performance as much as the audience was, even the six month old weanlings were eager and willing to perform even with the noise and distraction of the large crowd and bright orange safety fences!

I was specifically taking photos for reference material for future paintings (and have already flagged a number of shots that are going to make a wonderful new series of paintings) but here are a few shots of the performance which I can *highly* recommend as a must see for anyone who loves horses!

Team Australia Liberty Horse display

Team Australia Liberty Horse display © 2010 South West Photography

Team Australia Clydesdale Liberty Horse Display photograph

Team Australia Liberty Horse Display © 2010 South West Photography

Liberty Horse Photography

Team Australia Nine Horse Liberty Display © 2010 South West Photography

Team Australia Liberty Horse Display

Team Australia Two by Two Liberty Horse Display © 2010 South West Photography

Team Australia Liberty Horse Display

Liberty Horse Display © 2010 South West Photography

Team Australia Liberty Horse Roman Riding

Roman Riding Liberty Horse display © 2010 South West Photography

Next post will include some photos from the tent pegging display by 10th Light Horse Bunbury Troop.

All images from the Liberty Horse display can be viewed on the Events section of my South West Photography website.

x Michelle

Michelle Wrighton: Animal, Wildlife & Landscape Fine Art & Photography

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Dardanup Heavy Horse Show | South West Photography

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

I was lucky enough to attend the Dardanup Heritage Park Heavy Horse Show on  June 6, 2010 to watch some  magnificent Clydesdales in action and obtain reference material for future paintings.  There was also a riding and tent pegging display by the 10th Light Horse Bunbury Troop and the most amazing liberty horse display by Sam and Sasha Watson of Horses and Horsemen – a performance that every horse owner should see to get a glimpse into the incredible communication and willing relationship that is possible between horse and man – even with foals as young as six months of age!  As a horse owner, the liberty performance was both humbling and awe inspiring and something that you could never tire of watching.

I have hundreds of photos from the day that I havn’t finished sorting through so I will make a couple of blog posts to include a few from the Light Horse and Team Australia Liberty performances as well as the Clydesdales.

Dardanup Clydesdale Heavy Horse Show

Clydesdale horse in harness © 2010 South West Photography

Clydesdale Horse in Harness

Clydesdale in Harness © 2010 South West Photography

Clydesdale Horse and cart

Traditional Clydesdale and cart © 2010 South West Photography

Clydesdale team and wine cart

Clydesdale team and wine cart © 2010 South West Photography

Clydesdale team and cart

Clydesdale team and single axle cart © 2010 South West Photography

Clydesdales in harness

Clydesdales in harness © 2010 South West Photography

Proofs from the Clydesdale Show will be uploaded and available for competitors to purchase prints from my photography events website South West Photography next week (the 10gig limit per month wireless internet is never enough and we have been shaped back to dinosaur dialup speed until next week:(

x Michelle

Michelle Wrighton: Animal, Wildlife & Landscape Fine Art & Photography

SOUTH WEST PHOTOGRAPHY: Portrait, Event, Landscape and Fine Art Photography Prints

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Standardbred Winter Gala Horse Show | South West Photography

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

The Standardbred Pleasure and Performance Horse Association of WA held the annual Winter Gala at the Perth Horse and Pony Club grounds in Herdsman.  I am totally biased towards the breed (having two of my own) and I strongly believe that they are *the* most under-rated breed in the horse world.  Thankfully more people like those that turned out for this show are seeing the incredible possibilities with this versatile breed as pleasure and preformance horses.

And I have to say that the presentation of these Standardbreds is absolutely impeccable and puts alot of other ‘fancy’ breeds to shame!

Horse show equine photography

Coloured Standardbred © South West Photography

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Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography

Horse show equine photography

Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography

Horse show equine photography

Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography

Horse show equine photography

Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography

Horse show equine photography

Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography

Horse show equine photography

Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography

Horse show equine photography

Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography

Horse show equine photography

Part bred Standardbred © South West Photography

Horse show equine photography

Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography

Horse show equine photography

Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography

Horse show equine photography

Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography

Horse show equine photography

Standardbred Dressage © South West Photography

All of the proof images for the In Hand, Ridden and the Dressage tests can be viewed and ordered online at South West Photography.

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WA Palamino Association Championship Horse Show | South West Photography

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

It was a wonderful honour to be appointed as the official photographer for this years WA Palamino Associations Championship Show, and what a thrill to be able to photograph some very beautiful horse and ponies!

Palamino Stallion horse photography

Palamino Stallion © 2009 South West Photography

Palamino Champion horse photography

Palamino Champion © 2009 South West Photography

Show Pony Photography palamino

Show Pony Photography © 2009 South West Photography

Palamino Quarterhorse show photography

Palamino Quarterhorse © 2009 South West Photography

Golden beauty palamino horse photography

Golden beauty © 2009 South West Photography

Rosettes and Broadsash

Rosettes and Broadsash © 2009 South West Photography

Regal palamino show horse photography

Regal © 2009 South West Photography

Equine palamino show horse photography

Equine Beauty rewarded © 2009 South West Photography

Welsh Palamino pony photography

Sleepy Welsh Palamino © 2009 South West Photography

palamino horse show photography

Beautiful horse and garland © 2009 South West Photography

All images are available to view and purchase from the events section of my South West Photography website.

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