When you started your professional equestrian photography career, I’m guessing your goal was to get as many people and horses behind the lens as possible. You marketed the heck out of yourself. And found you were pretty dang good at taking horse photos and drawing in customers.

Pose, shoot, digital download, next… 

You quickly learned that squeezing all those equine photo sessions into your week took a toll on your family and home life, messing with your sanity. 

Recently I had the opportunity to photograph Victory with her two horses, Joy and Jubilee (how great are those names?), out in Interlachen, Florida. The weather leading up to our photoshoot day was a bit soggy and we spent the morning just keeping an eye on the radar and our fingers crossed that we would have a rain-free couple of hours to capture everything that we hoped to capture. In addition to these images we created some equine black background portraits and a full family portrait including the rest of her herd. Victory was fabulous to work with and I could tell that she spent a ton of time preparing her horses for their big day in front of the camera.

Avery and Kiefer reached out to Fast Horse Photography to capture some very unique images to celebrate their recent engagement and marriage. They wanted something a little different as their original plans to wed changed with the onset of the covid-19 pandemic. They were inspired to create a stunning collection of images for their home and office that included a horse. With the assistance of Pinto Pony Works, we hired Joy, the gorgeous grey pictured below, to make this collection of romantic images for the couple to always remember this time in the early days of their marriage.

Sometimes, in the course of my journey as an equine photographer, I get the opportunity to photograph a horse that I have photographed before with a previous owner. It was very exciting to meet Ari and learn that her beloved and GORGEOUS horse, Flicka, had been in front of my camera many years before. Ari and Flicka have a lovely bond that was a joy to capture as part of Ari’s equestrian senior portraits. Her session was held at The Florida Agricultural Museum on one of the very last days of Spring wildflowers before they burned away in the Florida heat.

If you haven’t updated your professional headshots in the last couple of years, it’s time. This is true for business owners in the equine and equestrian markets as well. Your headshots tell the world that you are a professional in your field. That you have the experience and expertise that outshines others in your chosen line of work. Your headshot is your handshake and often the first time a potential client gets and impression of you. Having professionally shot images shows that you care about your business, the people you serve and their animals.