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Hay Show

This was my second visit to Hay Show, set in lovely parkland a mile or so outside of Hay on Wye. It was a much better day this year with no rain and the turnout was very good. Lots of things going on in lots of rings, so sorry if we missed you as we can not cover it all, even though there were two of us taking pictures. Maybe next year as we are already booked do come again.

The photos are now all available in the Shop area.

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Pony Club Area 7 Show Jumping at Solihull

We had a very busy and long day at this event. The weather held for most of the day, though some of us got a bit wet later in the afternoon. Riders started jumping at 9.00am and the last one to jump was at 6.20pm. The indoor school classes were pushing the camera to the limit with the low light levels, and the very best low light camera available was being used in there. The photographers on the day were Pete Thorp (Indoors), Jo Martin (Int round 1 & Novice round 2) and myself (Novice round 1 & Pre-Novice). This was the biggest event Jo has photographed at to date and I think she did a first class job.

Anyway, all the photos are now online for your view and purchase, just navigate to the Shop section and follow the instructions if you have not already done so.

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On Friday 30th July we covered the Pony Club Area 7 Show Jumping, at Solihull Riding Club, and yesterday we were photographing at Hay Show, Hay on Wye. I will be starting to go through the thousands, yes thousands, of photos taken over the last two days and getting them online here for you to view. I expect to have the Pony Club photos all done by Monday evening and the Hay photos by Tuesday evening. If they can be done sooner they will be.

Thank you for your patience.

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Ledbury Hunt Show

We had a great day on Sunday covering the Ledbury Hunt Horse & Dog Show. A lovely sunny day even if the wind was a little chilly at times and strong at others. We were forced to removed all the sides of our tent to prevent it becoming airbourne, and this despite it being strapped down. It was a good day and thanks to the organisers for putting it on and asking us along. My photographers for the day were John Rose in the show jumping and Penny Barker covering everything else. Also thanks to Louanne Rose for helping out too. I spent the day manning the tent to trial a new bit of computer programming and it all worked well apart from people having to tilt their heads to look at the upright images on the viewing stations. Sorry about that, the problem has now been fixed so no more stiff necks. Follow the Shop link to find your gallery.

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Sapey Mid-Summer Horse Trials

It was hot day last Sunday but there was a good lot of entries for this popular event. The cross country course has been reversed from previous years at looked very good. Lots of solid imposing jumps that rode really well. As usual, we were busy taking the pictures and they are now all online for your viewing. When looking through the galleries, don’t forget to use the ‘favourites’ option to build your own gallery of all your images, from all available events photographed by us.

We have also launched a new print product as seen here. It is currently available in two sizes, 9 x 6 and 12 x 8, and with either a white or black background as shown below. Just follow the instructions when ordering to choose your images etc.

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Poppy - how do i view the photos taken at sapey online like u could on the old website?? thanx

Michael - Hi Poppy

To view the Sapey images, you need to go the Shop area and register. Move your mouse over the word Register and it turns red, click it and fill in the details. You will then have created an account which will allow you to view the images, order images and if you like, by clicking the heart symbol you can add images to your own ‘favourites’ folder for quick viewing at a later date.