WORKING WITH SOCIAL DISTANCING

With social distancing, that's a wrap, hope you all had a great week. 🙂

SPRING HAS FINALLY ARRIVED

With the winter weather, video guys sick and the pandemic, it's been tough to get stuff done. Not fun shooting video in -20C weather but it's something that I tolerate, so that I'm not sitting on things that need to be done.

Glad to finally see the warm weather here for 2020, it always makes your work that much easier.

FAMILY MEANS EVERYTHING

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but from the joy you bring to one another’s lives” - Jess Chagnon

Jessica Chagnon with ER Charleston & My American Idol
Dawn Boucher with MS Sangria Bey & Sun Kyssed

HALL OF FAME PIECE TRAILER

My Hall of Fame piece is done, it's ready and will be sent to the Museum very soon! Since this is museum work, it had to follow a very specific finish and frame. This summer is when it will be going in. There is sound on this video.

Todd Boston is the farrier. Thanks to Rebecca Higgins Meisner for finding this out for me. :)

The next step is when it's inside but before that, there may be some more exciting news following from my announcement last month.

CLIPPING WHISKERS: ARE YOU FOR OR AGAINST IT?

Do 𝗬𝗢𝗨 clip your horse's whiskers or do you leave them as is? Debatable subject - I've always believed that horse's are better with them as is, as we all know they are sensors for them.

SECOND PICTURE JUST ABOUT MADE THE HALL OF FAME

It was as close as it could get but I just about got the groom into the Hall of Fame as well.

THIS WORK IS HEADING TO THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING AND HALL OF FAME (NEW YORK)

I never would have guessed that the very first time that I photograph a farrier, one of the half dozen pictures that I took is going into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, NY. This was a completely new and unfamiliar experience to me but what a learning experience it was.

You may have heard me say before that a big part of photography is being in the right place at the right time but there is more to it than just that. Well this couldn't have been a better example.

I was cutting through the back barns at Breeders' Cup, walking back to the car to get something and if it wasn't for me taking a slight detour because I was alert and saw this farrier from a distance, I never would have gotten this picture and obviously I would not be having my name in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame from this specific subject. What an incredible honor this is and a defining moment in my career.

To add to that (I've had some people ask), no this is not the same career defining moment that I briefly mentioned a few weeks ago, there is another one! But it's way too early to share that one right now.

This piece of framed work will be going into the museum later this year and I will do another reveal when it's in there. Can't wait!