Beautiful Trip to Michigan
Posted June 29, 2008
I've just returned from photographing 46 beautiful horses in Michigan for my "Beautiful Horses of Michigan" proect! I will be making a painting of each horse based on my photographs. Wow, what a fun trip! The horses were all wonderful! And their owners were so nice and gracious to allow me to photograph their prized horses. Many had spent hours shampooing and prepping their horses for the photo shoot.
Sherri sent me photos of her horse Rain's "Spa Treatment" She wrote, "I am hairdresser, nail technician, wardrobe, make-up, personal trainer, and therapist. ( or is it the other way around on that last one? )"
 
Thanks to all the owners and their assistants for the hard work they put in before I arrived! (After all this bathing, some of the horses thought a good first photo would be of them rolling in the dirt -- we had to chase after some to prevent that from happening -- usually we were successful!)
Even though rain was in the forecast for Michigan all but one of the seven days I was there, we only got rained out at one farm. How amazing! Luckily that farm had an indoor arena with big doors to let in the light AND the horse was a paint who was 95 percent white. At the next stop it was raining just lightly; our umbrellas resulted in lots of perked up ears for photos!
Watch for the first "Beautiful Horses of Michigan" paintings to be posted on my website this fall. That's because it takes about three months to complete a painting! To hold you over til then, here are some photos from my trip.
This Saddlebred colt was so cute! I was delighted to get to snap a few photos of him while I was visiting his home to photograph his sire, One Hot Nite, who is an amazing stallion!
Snap E Traveller was so funny. Racing around his pasture he would always turn toward me as he passed, making sure I was capturing his beautiful movement. At one point he ran right up behind me and gave out a loud snort - such a gust of wind -- it blew my hair forward!
Imagine a horse pasture with a beautiful river in your backyard! Yes, there will be paintings with horses wading in the water! Here Betsy wades out with Kenya.
The brochure said "Where the horse is King," so Will and I had to ride the ferry to Mackinac Island, even though we only got to stay one hour. You can guess what I was doing the whole time - photographing horses! (Will was eating fudge.)
Yes, it's that beauty queen Rain again, asking her neighbor who does her hair color treatment.
Every horse I got to visit in Michigan was special! And, as I told one owner, everyone I met on my trip was super nice, after all only nice people would go to the trouble of nominating their horse for a project like this!
Stay tuned. There are LOTS of beautiful horse paintings coming soon!
Check out the first two competed series: Beautiful Horses of Texas and Beautiful Horses of Ohio.
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