Today’s adventure took me back to Park House Stables in Kingsclere. This time to photograph the man who keeps these beautiful creatures in tip-top condition.

I watched, as Stephen of ‘Back on Form Ltd’ worked with great skill (and humour…well he is Irish) on a group of horses, preparing them for up-coming events. I have, in my time, visited an osteopath but working with such huge, strong animals is a whole different ball game.

I take my hat off to you Mr Byrne… you may want to keep yours on 😉

It is so special when a couple, who’s wedding I have photographed, ask me to come back and photograph their first child. So when Kathrin phoned and said, ‘I haven’t had the baby yet but I’m due on this date please keep it free!’ I pencilled in a few days, packed my camera bag and was ready to whizz up to London to capture this newborn as newly as possible!

Charlie was born on the 14th April and is just perfect! I was in my element recording his perfect little hands with tiny scruffy finger nails, his tiny feet (still with the marks from his heel prick text) and his lovely little face. He wasn’t that amused about some of the creative ideas we had but he will forgive us in time 😉 It’s all in the name of art, Charlie!

Today I was invited to spend the morning at Park House Stables, camera in hand, excited and ready to capture these beautiful creatures in action. I had done this once before and that time had no idea what I was looking for as far as a ‘technically’ good shot of a racehorse at speed. This time I had only a little bit more of a clue as to which position their legs should be in when I pressed the button. It only took two horses to thunder past me, earth flying, to realise that it didn’t matter in the slightest what I knew or didn’t know…for me this would be simply down to luck!
So from the warm-up (there is a more correct name for this), followed by a gentle canter up to the gallops, and next the challenge of capturing these beautiful creatures at speed and then the wash down back at the stables – I loved every minute! Huge thanks to the wonderful Balding family…when can I come again?!