Photoshoot

Just because she loves Arabians, I got an impromptu photo shoot from a professional photographer who lives nearby. I am so happy to have met her! She works for state studs all over Europe, photographing their horses, most often the Arabian stables in Spain. She is especially fond of Egyptian Arabians, and I told her, well, Baasha is only 75% Egyptian.

4 generations back in Baasha's pedigree, I see two Crabbet horses. Here is the proof of the mixing of the two lines. (As I wrote this, my Math teacher husband just came in and pointed out that Baasha is actually 7/8ths Egyptian. Good grief, how many years did it take for me to learn this?) (And he asked the same question I have always had: If Crabbet horses came from Egypt, why aren't they still Egyptian?)










My friend the photographer works and travels the world with Gabrielle Boiselle. Gabrielle Boiselle is the Bob Langrish of Germany. You know Langrish photos from those horse calendars they sell at the mall, and those big hefty Horse Encyclopedias we all have. I always thought Langrish did an OK job, but he doesn't focus on the Arabians like Boiselle does. Do they make an easier subject to capture beauty? From looking at her website today, I think so.










Straight out of camera. I had told her how I hate retouching, making both people and horses look more beautiful than they actually are, I find that dishonest.















I really hate having my picture taken, can you tell? The bigger the camera, the worse. I was remembering my wedding, how I kept running away from the photographer, and he was determined to catch me on film (good thing he was crafty!). Since these are impromptu photos, Baasha's got a winter coat. Had I known, I would have at least worn some make up, and gloves that fit!









Baasha has a lifelong habit of not posing for cameras, of looking bored no matter what exciting new thing we use as a prop to get him to look alive. My friend used a reflector, which is a large disk of reflective material, that both brings light from below, and gets horses to "look". Baasha was bored by it, even though he has never seen such a thing. *sigh* If only someone had brought that donkey over! Oh well, we decided to do cuddly photos, because he would not cooperate.







In some photos you can see the reflection of the reflector disk in his eye. My man was holding it. She said he did a great job, making the weather look brighter than it was.

I look forward to seeing the rest of the pictures when I get the disk (and I will be cropping myself out of the photos!).