Meet this foursome, from left to right: Duke, Dale, DJ (Dale Junior) and Eleana.  I met the human duo of this group at the Gilbert Farmer’s Market when I showed my photography there about a month ago.  What an amazing couple these two are. They love their horses beyond words and wanted some pictures taken for the holidays.

They have been awfully kind to me. Eleana used to live by the Superstition Mountains in Apache Junction and told me that she’s never seen a photograph that captured their essence until she walked by my booth at the market.  Because of that they wanted me for their equestrian photoshoot this past Friday. I was blown away and humbled at her comments and of course I took up the challenge of capturing the four of them.

Never photographed horses like this before, so it was definitely a learning experience!

Thank you guys so much for having me out there to hang with you and your boys for a little bit. Wonderful animals, they were adorable and fun to be around. Watching them run and play was so amazing…something I don’t think I’ve really seen before.

Here are just a few images from the shoot…there are so many more to go through!

This first photo is an entry I did for their Halloween Fright theme, which looks like it was tough, but it just required two photographs and some Photoshop magic.

Ghost in the Mirror

This next photo was taken on Gilbert Road through a fence where a bunch of tractors and trucks sit around waiting to be purchased I guess. I thought the graffiti added an interesting element to the scene and this is what came of it:

An old, decayed wall near by office building downtown.

Taken this morning (Oct 21st)…the main bright star you see is Venus against the sunrise over San Tan Mountain.

Took this one a few weeks ago with my old camera. It’s enhanced a bit with Photoshop to give it a sort of “metallic” feel, but it’s the perspective and clouds that make it I think.

This last one is kind of cute I thought…as I was out trying to photograph a meteor shower this morning, these horses in a farm next to me woke up and one of them stared at me for awhile *grin*