© 2011 admin. All rights reserved.Before their turns on Sunday, the riders practiced jumping barriers to warm-up their horses. They approached the obstacles at canter. In the photos, you’ll see the horses’ front legs leave the ground and fold as they go over. Clearing … Continue reading
© 2011 admin. All rights reserved.After a morning of walk, trot and canter in the dressage rings, the participants in the horse trials changed outfits and helmets. Most of the shots here show the warm-up and practice jumps for the cross-country event. For the cross-country, … Continue reading
© 2011 Jim Eichstedt. All rights reserved.Here’s what got me started. I wanted to make a photo keepsake of a young woman’s first experience competing in a horse show – horse trials at Silverwood Farm, Camp Lake, WI – but I didn’t even have a camera! … Continue reading
© 2012 admin. All rights reserved.This is what I’ve been waiting for: a chance to capture the action on the fast-paced, spread-out course of cross-country eventing. The only other time I’ve had an opportunity to shoot this event was an August, 2011, Horse Trials at … Continue reading
© 2012 admin. All rights reserved.In the north, we’ve been waiting for the sunny warmth of spring and the pleasures of watching our horses enjoy green pastures again. Another sure sign that the long winter wait is over is the beginning of 2012’s season of … Continue reading
© 2012 admin. All rights reserved.May is almost here and soon we’ll be attending dressage shows and horse trials at nearby Silverwood Farm. I thought that this would be a good time to show you a few photos that I took towards the end of … Continue reading
© 2012 Jim Eichstedt. All rights reserved.One of the best reasons for visiting the Hawthorne Race Course in Cicero, IL, is to see one of the most popular and successful female jockeys, Inez Karlsson. If you watched the HBO series, Luck, you’ll recall the feisty Rosie, … Continue reading
© 2012 Jim Eichstedt. All rights reserved.The unseasonably warm weather inspired me to look for opportunities to shoot horses outdoors. Can there be a better place to enjoy the warm spring sunshine than the race track? I have to admit that viewing the superb HBO series, … Continue reading
© 2012 admin. All rights reserved.This post completes the photo-journal of the Fields & Fences Indoor Dressage Show of January 29, 2012, that I began with the March 9 installment. Although I only visited the show for a few hours of the two day event, … Continue reading
© 2012 admin. All rights reserved.I promised you more shots from the January 29, 2012, Dressage Show at Fields & Fences. There were just too many good shots to try to cram them all in just a single post! In fact, I’ve saved a bunch … Continue reading
© 2012 admin. All rights reserved.Unlike all my previous posts from Fields & Fences, this one features Dressage. Instead of trying to capture the action of a horse leaping over a barrier at just the right instant, I could follow riders around the ring with … Continue reading
© 2012 admin. All rights reserved.Ordinarily, the photos I shoot are of participants in horse shows. In this case, while I was photographing a dressage show in Ring 3 at Silverwood Farm, one of the trainers began a workout in the adjacent Ring 4. You … Continue reading
© 2012 Jim Eichstedt. All rights reserved.While shooting pictures of dressage horses at Silverwood Farm (Saturday, October 15, 2011), I was startled to hear the pounding thunder of a locomotive behind me. When I turned, I saw three horse running towards me at full tilt and … Continue reading
© 2012 admin. All rights reserved.This post continues with more photos from the January 8, 2012, Open Hunter/Jumper Show at Fields & Fences Equestrian Center in Wadsworth, IL. Unlike the previous post’s images which, except for the wide-angle views of the arena’s interior, were shot … Continue reading
© 2012 Jim Eichstedt. All rights reserved.On Sunday, January 8, 2012, I returned to Fields & Fences in Wadsworth, Illinois – that’s around the block from Gurnee Mills for all of you outlet mall shoppers. The event was another Open Hunter/Jumper show in the huge indoor … Continue reading
© 2011 Jim Eichstedt. All rights reserved.This is a collection of photos that I took on December 4, 2011, at Fields and Fences. As I explained in the previous post, , the event was an indoor Open Hunter/Jumper Show. The arena is huge but dark. I … Continue reading
© 2011 Jim Eichstedt. All rights reserved.I visited Fields & Fences Equestrian Center in Wadsworth, IL, just a few miles south of the Wisconsin border two weeks ago on Saturday, December 4. Not only was I impressed by the facilities, which included a huge indoor arena, … Continue reading
© 2011 Jim Eichstedt. All rights reserved.In the last post, I showed you some photos from this October Dressage Show at Silverwood Farm in Camp Lake, WI. Those photos were all taken with an ancient Nikon portrait lens on my Canon 20D DSLR body using a … Continue reading
© 2011 Jim Eichstedt. All rights reserved.These are images from a series of shots I took at Silverwood Farm in Camp Lake, WI, on Sunday, October 2, 2011. This was the first time I used a manual focus lens (a Nikkor-Q 135mm f/2.8) on my Canon … Continue reading
© 2011 Jim Eichstedt. All rights reserved.I visited Silverwood Farm at Camp Lake, WI, in early August to take photos of a young woman who was competing for the first time. It was also my first time to photograph a horse show and my first time … Continue reading
© 2011 Jim Eichstedt. All rights reserved.Here are more photos (seen above the headline in a slideshow) that I took Saturday, October 8, 2011. You saw four of the entries in an earlier issue (): these are some of the others that competed that day. It … Continue reading
© 2011 Jim Eichstedt. All rights reserved.On Thursday, the second day of the four-day horse show, I used my fastest lens, a manual focus 135mm f/2.8 Nikkor that I mounted on a Canon DSLR body. Although I got a lot of blurry pictures, I also got … Continue reading
© 2011 admin. All rights reserved.We’ll get back to Sorensen Equestrian Park in a later post. I was in Lexington, KY, this week and attended the first two days of the Alltech National Horse Show at Kentucky Horse Park, a huge, indoor show for Hunters. … Continue reading
© 2011 admin. All rights reserved.Early in October, on a Saturday morning, I visited Sorensen Equestrian Park. It was the second day of a Dressage Show. The park is located near East Troy, WI, farming country, just a short drive south from Milwaukee where I … Continue reading
© 2011 admin. All rights reserved.For this post, I’ve chosen a small assortment of the photographs I’ve snapped at horse shows the past few months. When you return to tackshots.com, you’ll see ever more slide-shows and a growing gallery of great pictures of horses and … Continue reading
