The other weekend was the Midwest Horse Fair, which is a large equine expo in my area. Vendors, demonstrations, clinicians, and all the usual equine goodness.
The past few years I have been pretty busy with actually taking care of horses at the expo. Everyone usually thinks it's a great time to take horses to the expo. But I disagree. It's not so fun. You are essentially tied to 5,284 things you need to do a day that if you get 5 seconds to leave the area to run to the restroom, you are bound to run into one of the five thousand equestrians you know and probably one you don't want to know and he or she will inevitably want to chat for at least fifteen minutes to the point that you will be late for your next adventure and not have time to actually use the restroom.
The past few years I have been pretty busy with actually taking care of horses at the expo. Everyone usually thinks it's a great time to take horses to the expo. But I disagree. It's not so fun. You are essentially tied to 5,284 things you need to do a day that if you get 5 seconds to leave the area to run to the restroom, you are bound to run into one of the five thousand equestrians you know and probably one you don't want to know and he or she will inevitably want to chat for at least fifteen minutes to the point that you will be late for your next adventure and not have time to actually use the restroom.
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| Riding with Jec Ballou. I look terrified. I basically was, LOL! |
But I digress. My point is that I had zero horses to care for this year. I just was helping with the Morab and Arabian breed areas and then the rest of the weekend was mine to do as I please. I brought my camera for a couple days and shot some images of the Arabian, Morab, and Fjord groups just to play around and see if I can improve my photography.
That being said, shooting fast moving horses in dark arenas is certainly a challenge.
I did a little bit of shopping, but I didn't find as many deals as I would have hoped. I watched a few different clinicians, including Clinton Anderson, but the nice thing with not having to pay per auditing experience, I didn't feel I had to stick it out so I left after a few minutes of CA.
Here are a few of my favorites images from the weekend.
That being said, shooting fast moving horses in dark arenas is certainly a challenge.
I did a little bit of shopping, but I didn't find as many deals as I would have hoped. I watched a few different clinicians, including Clinton Anderson, but the nice thing with not having to pay per auditing experience, I didn't feel I had to stick it out so I left after a few minutes of CA.
Here are a few of my favorites images from the weekend.
What's your favorite part of equine expos? Do you usually get to watch demos? Clinicians? Shopping?
Those Fjords are so cute. There was an adorable one in my division over the weekend.
ReplyDeleteThey are beyond adorable. My barn owner breeds Fjords so I've met more than a few. :) I took photos of them as I know a bunch of these guys.
ReplyDeleteI would love to ride with Jec Bellou! The one horse expo I went to wasn't that great and I feel like there are so many wonderful ones out there.
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