At C Turn Left – the sound of dressage

Posted on 25/05/201325/05/2013 by Alastair

On Tuesday evening I was doing some equestrian photography of a small dressage show at Clydach Riding Club.

The judges of the dressage sit in their 4×4 to watch the riders and blow their horn to indicate that the rider should start. Every time they do this I jump out of my skin. On Tuesday evening I was recording some of the sounds of the show. These include the background sound of traffic from the A4067 but this could never drown out the birds.

I am sure the judges had a laugh when, with my headphones on as they beeped their horn, I very visibly jumped. I have toned it down in this recording.

And for the field recordists out there, you can hear more on SoundCloud.

The equestrian photography can be found on PhotoShelter.

Waiting and Watching – Riding Club Extras

Posted on 08/05/201308/05/2013 by Alastair

Doing photography almost invariably involves time spent waiting. If others are involved in any way, this is inevitably the case and even if they are not, you often have to wait for the conditions to be right – the wind to drop, the sun to come out or whatever.

The extra shots I took on Sunday morning at Clydach Riding Club show jumping reflect some of that time – I wasn’t the only one waiting for the next event!

My horse show photography, including extras, can be seen and is for sale on the StillWalks PhotoShelter site.

Watching Legs

Walking the course

Messing Around

Waiting their turn

Full Bloom

Equestrian Coiffure

Posted on 06/05/201306/05/2013 by Alastair

This weekend I have mostly been doing equestrian photography! On Saturday it was a Showing show at Clydach Riding Club and this horse had a hair-do to show off (amongst other things!) 😉

The photographs can be seen at the StillWalks PhotoShelter shop.

Horsey horsey don’t you stop . . .

Posted on 08/04/201308/04/2013 by Alastair

The season has started again – I spent the weekend doing equestrian photography for Clydach Riding Club. It was their second event of the year and the sun shone all day giving me sunburn on the back of my neck. Mostly I only do the CRC shows but if anyone asks me to do any other equestrian photography, I am happy to do so. Check out StillWalks Equestrian.

I usually take some extra shots on these days – some of them are below. The last one looks like it is in the middle of being Photoshopped, but the horse box really was that colour!

Photos from the show can be seen at www.stillwalks.photoshelter.com

I have moved this part of the StillWalks photography shop to Photoshelter and will be moving the main StillWalks photography there as well. Until I do, all StillWalks photos for sale can be found at www.photoboxgallery.com/stillwalks

Not all went to plan

Walking the course – No.1, No.2 . . .

Number 4

Number 5

Looking on

Extras

Hoofing It – A blog entry on the hoof

Posted on 14/08/201214/08/2012 by Alastair

At the weekend I was busy again, this time with StillWalks Equestrian. Earlier this year I was asked if I would be interested in doing the photography for Clydach Riding Club and, what with nothing better to do at the weekends (ha, ha), I ventured on down to their new show field at Ynystawe.

I don’t have the best camera for this kind of work as the photography I do for StillWalks does not involve that many fast moving objects. However, I manage well enough and enjoy watching the events. Having watched my daughter riding for many years, it is very useful to have an understanding of what is going on. This also allowed me to appreciate the equestrian Olympic events that much more than I have in the past.

Here are some alternative shots from the weekend. The event photos can be seen here.

Keeping in the Cool

The Horses have It

Posted on 07/04/201207/04/2012 by Alastair

StillWalks-Equestrian is a new website and service born from the interest taken in my photography for the production of StillWalks.

Ready and Waiting

Relaxing virtual walks for horses? – No 🙂 Maybe there will be some StillWalks made for horse riders in the future but they might require me to take along step ladders on production day in order to get the same sort of view point as the riders. In fact, many existing StillWalks routes have had evidence of horses along the way.

In Action

The sound of the show – One of the aspects of StillWalks I enjoy the most is sound recording. As yet, I have only done this at one show and I have not published the StillWalk produced. I look forward to the next opportunity as the sounds at a horse event are so distinctive. Here is a clip from the unpublished Bont Show Walk – remember, you’ll need to go to the blog to see (and hear) this clip.

Examples of photography for StillWalks-Equestrian can be seen on the website at www.equestrian.stillwalks.com with all images being available for sale at www.photoboxgallery.com/stillwalks-equestrian

Taking Off