Hannah adores Andy. He’s been a great horse for her to learn and grow with. But Andy is getting older and Hannah is competing at a national level in dressage and needed to move up to a horse better suited for where she is at right now. She found the…
I have to be honest, I wish more people invested in foal photo sessions. Selfishly, it’s because baby horses are among my favorite things to photograph! Unselfishly, foals grow up so fast, they definitely need to be photographed when they are small and cute and fluffy like this little Oldenburg,…
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” ~Helen Keller On Sunday, my dear friend Ingrid sent me a text that her beloved horse Elena was sick and had been taken to a vet clinic. She had an infection…
Now that the taller-than-me piles of snow around my farm are melting (they are still waist high!), I thought it might be fun to share some of my favorite photos of my two horses from this winter. I’ve only lived on my own acreage for 3 winters and this has…
The Ames Percheron Team are definitely one of my favorite things to photograph. The horse’s amazing power, yet gentleness of soul causes me to stand in awe. They hire me seasonally to create images for their yearly calendar. This shoot for autumn images was a bit challenging as our autumn…
“Remember Sessions” like the one I did with Cady and her 28-year-old Morgan Horse “Mark” are so special to me. As the owner of a senior horse (25 years young!), the opportunity to photograph people with their aging horses before photos are all they have left is so dear to my heart. This…
Lilou is a French Exchange student who went to school in the US earlier this year. While she was here, she rode Obie, a German Riding Pony. When she came back for a visit this fall, I did a photo session with the two of them together. I also took…
This post is going to be awwwwwww-inspiring. ☺️What can be cuter than little girls and their horses? I can’t think of much. When Samantha contacted me about a session with her daughters, I was so excited. I love that she shares her passion for horses with her girls and wanted…
It has been raining for days and I had to reschedule yet another photo shoot, so I asked my friend Erica Hatfield if I could come to her barn and photograph a couple of her horses that I’ve been wanting to get in front of my camera. My original vision…
A family that shows horses together, stays together and forges a strong bond through teamwork! The Filek sisters show their pinto horses all around Minnesota and even in South Dakota. This year, they showed at the Pinto World and Color Breed Congress. In addition to shows, the girls also do drill…