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Carol Walker Returns: 10 Years of Growth

Carol Walker returns to share what changed in her fine art equine photography business over the last decade—what she’d do differently, how her creative focus evolved, and why wild horse conservation remains at the heart of her work.

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Carol Walker of Living Images by Carol Walker returns to The Equine Photographer’s Podcast for a candid “10 years later” conversation about what changed—creatively and professionally—since her last appearance.

We talk about how her fine art equine photography approach evolved, what she would do differently if she were building her business again today, and the practical shifts that helped her stay aligned with her long-term vision. We also dive into photography as visual advocacy and why wild horse conservation continues to shape the stories she chooses to tell.

If you’re an equine photographer who wants to refine your artistic voice, build a body of work with meaning, and grow in a way that feels sustainable, this episode will help you think more clearly about the next decade—not just the next booking.

 

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• What changed in Carol’s business—and what stayed the same—over 10 years
• How to evaluate your work as a fine art body of work
• What Carol would do differently if starting today
• Using photography as a voice for conservation
• Building a recognizable artistic style over time
• Balancing creative integrity with business growth

About the Guest: Carol Walker

Carol Walker is the artist behind Living Images by Carol Walker. Her fine art equine photography and wild horse work focus on storytelling, conservation, and creating imagery that lasts beyond a single moment in time.

Connect with Carol:

• Website: Living Images by Carol Walker
• Instagram: @wild_hoofbeats
• Facebook: Living Images by Carol Walker

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Lori McIntosh: How She Built Her Equine Photography Passion from Childhood to Career

In this episode, Lori McIntosh shares how a childhood surrounded by photography and horses became the foundation for her equine photography journey — from early studio experiences to endurance riding and professional work today. Whether you’re building your own equine business or exploring your creative roots, Lori’s story shows how passion and persistence shape a meaningful career.

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Lori McIntosh’s equine photography story begins long before she ever picked up a camera professionally. Growing up in a photography studio and spending summers at horse camp, Lori built a lifelong connection to both horses and imagery that shaped her creative path. In this episode, she recalls how early studio work taught her the craft, how endurance riding deepened her understanding of horses, and how those elements continue to influence her photographic vision today. Listeners will hear what it’s like to merge a passion for animals with artistic expression, lessons on building a sustainable photography career, and insights into staying connected to the things you love most. Whether you’re an aspiring equine photographer or a long-time creative professional, Lori’s experiences offer both inspiration and practical takeaways for your own journey.

 

KEY TAKE AWAYS:

• How Lori’s early life around photography shaped her artistic voice

• The role equestrian experiences played in her career focus

• Lessons on building skill through real-world involvement

• Why balancing passion and professionalism matters

• What endurance riding taught her about perseverance and creativity

About Our Guest: Lori McIntosh

Lori McIntosh is an equine photographer based in Auburn, California, whose passion for photography grew up inside her family’s studio and alongside her love of horses. Her work combines technical skill with an unmistakable understanding of the horse–human connection.

Connect with Lori:

• Website: lorimcintoshphotography.com

• Facebook: facebook.com/LoriMcIntoshPhotography

• Pinterest: pinterest.com/lorimc26

• Email: Lori@Lorimcphoto.com

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Judy Bosco has been an equine photographer for a long time, however she has stayed part-time balancing a full-time job, family, husband and recently other life challenges to continue to pursue her love for photography and horses. Listen and hear about her story on The Equine Photographers Podcast.

SHOW NOTES

Judy’s website: http://www.judybosco.smugmug.com

Judy’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PhotographybyJudithMBosco

When did she start to love horses?

Her parents knew that she was horse crazy so they gave her horseback riding lessons when she was 9 years old for a summer. After that a friend of hers who had horses stabled at the same barn and she helped clean stalls, and they rode a lot together. She did lease a horse for one summer, but has never owned her own horse.

Where did the photography come in?

She met her future husband at a new local camera store that had opened in the area. She bought a Yashica film 35mm camera and some lenses and started to take black and white pictures. She would study the horse magazines to determine if her images were any good and how she could improve them.

Practice, practice, practice is how Judy learned back then. She shot in black and white and the “guy at the camera store helped her to process her first bunch of rolls of film.” She focused on hunter/jumper and english riding. He taught her to process her own black and white images.

She also acquired a Bronco 645 which uses 120 and 220 roll film. From there she did lots of small shows on spec, but today shooting on spec does not work to well.

She still does several hunter pace events and still enjoys those the most. In the film days, she would send her daughter to have film processed and bring them back to sell at the events.

She used to do a lot of horse shows then, but things have changed quite a bit now. There are a lot fewer shows these days, but today everything is digital and there are lots of “photographers” shooting all the shows. At the same time she sometimes gets complaints that there was not a photographer at a show. However if the participants are unwilling to support the photographers when they do come, what would they expect to happen? After shooting a couple of shows with few sales photographers give up and move on to other types of events.

Now, she does everything online using Smugmug. She still have several hunter pace events that she does. She puts up a booth with samples and business cards and there are information cards in the rider packets.

Sign-up here and win an 8×10 from today’s event

She gives away an 8×10 at each event or show she does. This is a way to gather up lots of email addresses where she can notify them when the event gallery is available for viewing and purchase. At the hunter pace events is that there are people who don’t do other types of shows and they may not have any pictures of themselves with their horses yet. This means lots of new sales at these events that can also lead to other business.

Now she is trying to figure out how to sell digital files effectively and profitably. Many just want the digital files today. Sometimes she sells a bunch of files on a thumb drive for people who want a lot of files.

Conformation pictures to sell or promote a horse

Discussion of the cell phone pictures that people are using today to promote the sale of their horses. They wonder why there are no buyers or why they have to lower their price so much to sell their horse, however the horse does not look good with a large head a very tiny bottom and does not look good.

EPnet workshops

I’ve been to workshops in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, all the way through 2013 she explained. She loved what she learned from Betty Cooper’s workshop one year learning a lot about posing horses with their people. Hands on learning seems so much more effective to learn things about posing and getting horses to look great rather than just various online general photography learning opportunities.

Learning how to turn the horse’s head or pose the person with the horse can be learned so much better when you are actually seeing it done before your eyes. Judy recommends going to equine photography workshops whenever possible. As you can see, she has attended a few.

Family and health issues have slowed things down a bit lately

She cared for her mom until she passed in 2014. Then she had a kidney stone and an infection. Then her heart was feeling odd. At a big show her blood pressure and pulse tanked and were very low. She ended up getting a pacemaker and feels great now. Now she has more energy and is looking to do more shooting in coming months. Taking care of yourself is important.

Trying out Team Penning & cutting shows recently

My D800 has been great for this indoor event of a different nature. It’s action like hunter pace and hunter/jumper, but it is something I have not done before with new challenges. It was lots of fun and she had some good sales. Trying something completely new and challenging can be a great way to learn and grow.

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Lynne is a California-based equine sport, ranch, portrait, pets and livestock photographer for both personal and commercial clients.

Lynne is pictured third from the left in the above image.

SHOW NOTES

Website: http://www.photo.lynnesite.com

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lynne-Glazer-Imagery/42216687604

I’ve known Lynne for many years. She is a talented and very technically particular photographer. What I mean is that she never fudges getting the images right in the camera and on post processing to create the best possible image for her clients.

Because of this she has done all sorts of both personal and commercial photography, but for today’s interview we spend a lot of time discussing her endurance ride photography including covering the internationally known Tevis endurance ride which is a point to point 100 mile trail event which occurs every year in California.

Lynne has been horse crazy as long as she can remember, but she got her first horse at 31 years old. He was an older horse, but she was able to enjoy him for quite a few years.

In 2003 started shooting endurance rides. She also had a desktop technology support business for media companies as a freelancer, so she knew how to run a business before getting into the business of photography. She also had a lot of knowledge about using technology proficiently for her photography business although later in the interview she explains that she hates to blog which she knows would increase her visibility as a photography business.

Now she works with an aerospace engineering company in areas of technology that you and I would not have a clue about. She can work remotely and on the schedule she chooses which is usually at night. It’s just what she likes to do. That also leaves her time during the day for photography and enjoying her horse.

How does Lynne describe her business today?

She does events, farm and ranch photography along with her endurance ride photography and a smattering of other things. She says she does family photography with “critters”. She used to do a lot of editorial photography, but does a lot less now. She still shoots for Arabian Horse World. She also did stock photography profitably for many years, but doesn’t do much with that any more.

How long did it take her to move into professional photography?

She was able to bring herself to professional status almost instantly because of her understanding of running a business and her technology background. Knowing Lynne, she is one that I would never have to say, “read your camera manual”, since she does technical writing and also probably has it completely memorized.

She has done a lot of things over the years like horse shows, kids rodeos, also 2nd camera for Cristy Cumbersworth for her contracted events. Second shooting can be nice because you just hand over the images and the lead photographer takes it from there.

Lynne did a lot of work for Cavalia, the horse stage show performances for 10 years. This was a very difficult challenge due to low light. We discussed some of the challenges she faced. They would fly her to their show locations for shoots they needed.

Back to endurance riding and endurance ride photography

She is currently bringing along a 6-year-old horse for her own endurance riding. She is bowing out of endurance ride photography somewhat so she can ride endurance. She wants good images of herself riding endurance. She wants to encourage other photographers to come up and photograph these events and learn to do it well so she can buy images as keepsakes for rides where she is a participant.

The challenge is trying to capture images that will both look great and at the same time identify the ride that they are participating in. This is what makes the images eminently buyable. Making the images interesting and memorable can be challenging in California high desert, so finding the right place with the right light is important. It’s not just taking pictures of everyone.

We discuss some how to photograph trail events like this. Finding a place where the 25 mile and the 50 mile riders will both pass by is important, then moving to another point later in the event in order to get an additional opportunity to shoot all the riders.

How does the business of endurance ride photography work out for her?

The rides she photographs out in California are usually 100+ riders. The average orders for prints is $45.00 which is 3 4×6 prints at $15.00 each. With an 8×10 or larger she includes a digital file for Facebook sharing. Rather than run off and have the images made quickly, she post processes, crops, color corrects the images for very good keepsake image quality.

Even though it seems that you can make more selling on site at the event, she likes being able to shoot longer and not having to run off to cull and quickly print out images for sale. People know they will have high quality prints from her business model.

She uses Facebook endurance groups and pages to promote the availability of event albums to purchase from.

Western States Trail Foundation (WSTF) is the sponsoring organization for the TEVIS endurance ride and she provides a lot of photography for them from this event.

We again have a discussion of the TEVIS endurance ride. Vet checks protect the horses throughout the ride. At the end if the horse is not fit to continue, then the horse is pulled and does not complete. This protects horses from being overextended. It is about knowing and training your horse not just pushing performance.

She travels around the USA shooting various equine clients, not just endurance.

We have a discussion of using Facebook. Lynne uses her cell phone to create slice of life images and people seem to enjoy this. She has a much stronger following of her personal profile page vs. her business page.

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Richard Horst is a nature and equine photographer who manages a ranch where ranches are described in hundreds of acres and he has consciously chosen to bring his family and live where the pace of life is different and the love of horses and nature can be expressed in his heart and through photography which he can share with everyone.

SHOW NOTES

Website: http://www.richardhorstphotography.com

Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/RichardHorstPhotography

Pinterest Board: https://www.pinterest.com/richardhorst794/

Email Address: richardhorstphotography@gmail.com

How did Richard get involved with horses?

Grew up back East around Arabian horses. His grandfather had horses, and at his home with his sisters she had two horses, but Richard was not happy about having horses because he had to take care of them for his sister every morning.

Not until Wyoming did he start to enjoy horses again. He appreciated that horses could take him to places nobody else could see. Then he and his wife and family moved to manage another ranch in Montana. He manages the largest herd of Rocky Mountain horses in the world. He learned to depend on horses when out in the wild. Working together and trusting each other was important.

Where did his interest in photography start?

Richard got into photography in high school. He took pictures and processed in the unused bathroom in the basement of his parents house. Peter explains that this is just how he started as well.

While leading various horse packing trail adventures for the people coming to the Wyoming guest ranch Richard took lots of point and shoot images throughout the rides. Richard’s wife pushed him to do something with photography rekindling his passion for photography that was dormant for some time. After moving to Montana, he had a little more time and invested in better equipment.

He would like to have harder criticism on Horse Photo Critique group on Facebook. People are too nice. I want to improve more.

Has a nature photographers “look” to his work.

Richard has won some international photo competition with a picture of this daughter in the middle of nowhere with 3-4 horses and expansive rolling hills in the background.

We discussed and debated about being a 1/3 time photographer or full-time.

Jumping in with both feet

Richard announces that he is the OP “official photographer” for the Colorado Horse Expo. A discussion of on site sales and his need for second shooters. He also needs people to organize viewing and handle sales while he shoots all day long. Without on site sales it is likely that sales will be lacking. Needs price sheets, order forms, and promotion to get riders to come and see the images.

We will email him with some event photographers to consult with.

Which way will Richard go in his photography business as it comes together?

What do I do next? Gigi explains that it is interesting to be talking to someone on the cusp of building into a business. You must take the right steps at the right time according to some people who Richard has spoken with in the area of nature photography.

Will Richard migrate toward horse events or toward nature photography?

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Terri Cage is a portrait and equine photographer specializing in senior portraits, show promotion photography, and farm family portraits with animals. Please join us to listen as she explains her business and her life with horses.

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Website: http://www.terricage-photography.com

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TerriCagePhotography/

Horse crazy kid at 10 years old for my first horse.

Her dad got her a camera and he was a photographer actually.

She did some barrel racing as she got a little older. As she had children, then now are showing.

Started photography business in 2009.

Uses studio sometimes for some portraits, dogs, to promote and for selection sessions.

Main clientele is horse people. She does weddings from time to time. Shows 5% (networking through the shows with a booth showing portrait work) Majority of work is seniors and promotion for shows, some studio, some lifestyle, but a lot of images for client horse or rider western show promotion. Equine Chronicle and others.

The magazines are mailed free to all carded judges and they are free at the shows.

Gigi looks at her website and comments about how beautiful it is. Temp was 105 degrees at time of interview and is planning some mini session in studio. The studio is only 8 months old. Plans to stick it out for a year or two to see how it turns out. She sees the studio as promotional also. She also has a retail storefront with framed art work, canvases, boxes and cups etc.

Marketing – Advertising – Networking

Marketing – What else do you do besides Facebook Page. She mails out some postcards several times per year. Sends to farms and sends to seniors in the area. They are small mailings of 200 to 400 at a time. Spends about a day a week on Facebook and schedules posts, but with Instagram you have to actual do it when you want it to post. Instasize App for sizing photos for Instagram.

Shoots some dressage shows which have many different breeds represented. Took a workshop with Scott Trees for Arabians, to learn the breed better. Makes sure that whatever she sends out is appropriate for the breeds represented. Does some marketing through Instagram and this is where the kids are. You have to be there. With Instagram, you will be seen. It’s not that way any more on Facebook. Hashtags not like “senior portraits” because teens will not be looking for that.

When I go to someone’s ranch, usually will be there for several hours to provide a variety of images for promotion. Pricing is discussed depending on if she is visiting a stable with 3-4 riders at one session time. Sells Facebook images, high res files for the promotional ads, and various other prints. Grand parents still want wallets. Age 14-18 competitive riders. Spring amateurs, fall stallion promotions. Sometimes travels long distances and stays in guest house or client pays hotel fees.

Works with trainers in the ad development. “We have 4 people to do”. For these I have to please the trainer more than I have to please the client.

The difficulty of draught and increased costs affects the small horse people. For a while, we were paying 3X for hay.

Focus on Niche’ is important

Keep a focus on equine to reach these clients. Most of her work is niche’ equine and sometimes she gets other work, but many of those jobs come through people who know her through her equine work. My senior work started with horses. Now I have all kinds of seniors… motorcycles, not just horses now. Big family portraits in fall for Christmas… that’s the only time I shoot families in general.

General Shooting schedule for year

Spring – shoot for summer World shows

Amateurs – shoot in summer – age 19 and above – Fall shows

Families – fall shooting

Workshops is also something she does for her business. Two days for around $500.

Show promotion photography

Western lifestyle photography

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Scott is one of those fortunate people who has done something they love their entire working career and that is be a photographer. Horses have been the primary subject of his efforts, and he has been able to travel the world capturing their beauty and essence. His style embodies an artists understanding of light and a tactile emotional portrayal of his subjects.

While horses have been the primary subject, his work is not limited to just that area. He also does commercial work including architectural, fashion, portraiture and travel journals. His locations have been worldwide ranging from ghettos to palaces and everything in between!

His services include promotional photography, videography, editorial, lectures and seminars.

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Website: http://www.treesmedia.com

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Scott-Trees-Photography-245113558834563/

Scott Trees is based in Texas

The horse came first, quarter horses and Arabians growing up.

Started with a Minolta SRT 101. Developed black and white in the bathroom.

Started a party picture business for fraternities and Sororities and it paid for his college education.

First foray into equine photography was an “A” Arabian show in Pueblo Colorado. Shooting black and white and processing in a rented trailer with a friend.

Started doing some 16mm film work for a company working with horses.

1983 Did some work for a disbursement sale for a very large Arabian breeding farm. Did some of the first “at liberty” shooting.

Then everything started coming to him as fast as he could handle it. There were only 3-4 photographers doing all the work. Shooting medium format cameras. For every job he accepted there were 3 he had to refuse.

Today is very different. Went through the digital change over. At 65 he is in the last phase of his career. It used to be that he had the best gear at any shoot, but today, there will be several people with equipment better than him. Now people think good-enough is acceptable. Very competitive in a dwindling market as breed registries are seeing fewer and fewer horses.

Does a lot of video now. It’s an area that new photographers need to become competent in.

VHS  then DVDs  then Online Streaming. He has done all of these.

Current project working with Arabian breed with video to tell different stories about this versatile and interesting breed. Telling the good story about Arabians. With video you have to consider how the story is being told.

Scott has gone back and forth between video and still as each goes up and down in demand. There is a different art involved in motion.

Snapshot of his business now

1/3 photography, 1/3 video, 1/3 teaching

80% Horse photography / When he was working in Dubai, it was only 40% horses.

As a new photographer you had better be able to adjust to change over and over. Marketing is constantly changing as well. You must be able to perform on-demand and produce a quality product for your customers if you expect to be paid.

Horses have been the engine that pulled the train of his photography business. Niche’ is very important. You have to KNOW the area that you photograph. Specialty brought me to other work. Example with a story from Dubai.

Goes to horse shows to network. Does not do shows. Be careful that you don’t take on work that you are not prepared to perform well for. Taking on a national “A” horse show as your first project could ruin your entire career in the horse world if you don’t deliver. This includes meeting the expectations of the particular kind of event that you are photographing.

Photography today can be a TIME monster. We used to send off our film and it would come back. Now we spend hours and hours on the computer being the lab for ourselves.

Package online education in photography available at certain times of the year. Also does on-location teaching. Heads up the Sombrero Ranch Equine Photography workshops. Now he is trying out some classroom only teaching events. Two days: Fundamentals of still equine photography and Fundamentals of video for equine photography. Classroom can be as many as want to come. On-location workshops need to be limited in number to be more effective.

Gigi: Workshops are very valuable for her. Hands-on is how she finds the most effective learning.

Scott: THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING TO LEARN IN PHOTOGRAPHY.

Last question: Tell us about how you are lighting horses these days.

Most people are shooting horses are outdoors. Learn the color and direction of the light. Shoot morning or evening. Lighting and shadow give the picture depth and the look of 3 D look. Open shadow also has direction. Sometimes uses reflectors. Doesn’t use on camera fill flash which creates a flat image. Setting up lighting around horses is difficult because horse MOVE.

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I ran across Anette in the Facebook Group called “Horse Photo Critique”

The group is for people wanting to improve their equine images, not a place to share the latest snapshot of your horse. Some people get it, but sometimes people put up images of their horse snapped on a cell phone and become upset when someone explains how the images could be improved. They will say, “why, it’s my horse and I love him and I think it is a great image.”  But, it’s not. The exposure is wrong, the horse has his head in the grass, there are broken fences and garbage piles in the background and so on.

There are of course those who understand the purpose of the group and who follow the rules. They post their image with all the details about the image and ask, “How can I improve this image?”  If you want to improve your equine photography, find this Facebook Group and be teachable as Anette has been with outstanding and fast results.

One day Anette Augestad posted an image. It was wonderful. A young lady with her horse. The light was just right and there was little that could be done to improve the image. Since then Anette has been doing more and IMPROVING FAST, so I invited her to come on the Equine Photographers Podcast to share about what she was doing and where she was heading with her work.

Even now Interest in her images is expanding across the globe.

 

SHOW NOTES

Website: http://www.hestefotograf.com

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Hestefotograf?fref=photo

Equine photography is a hobby or side business, but she has a full-time career in another field.

Anette explains that she determines the location of the shoot. Some she shoots with models and borrowed horses.

Started with horses when she was 8 and everything in her life. Took riding lessons, dressage and show jumping.

2008 Landscape and nature photography

2012 started to build a portfolio of horses

2013 Started to build her portfolio of equine photography

Her full-time job gives her the flexibility to do what she wants

Hand picks the horses, hand picks the horses, without having the worry about the money.

Learning photography was trial and error. Tried and failed and tried again. Understands all the concepts and learned most of it before starting with horses.

Most of her activities come through her Facebook Page.

2013 first large article was published in a magazine called EquiLife. Also published late in Dressage a website in Norway.

You have a really specific hobby, her friends tell her.

Easier to create intimacy in the images with fewer subjects, the connection.

Details about her typical sessions.

Delivers about 15-20 images in low resolution. If they want prints, then they have to order through her. Most of this is through emails.

Stories of some of her sessions.

Loves to photograph the large and powerful breeds.

Setting up model sessions with horses she chooses.

A discussion of capturing the connection between the horse and rider. Discussion about her rates.

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Tracey Elliot-Reep has a truly unique and amazing business model that proves you can create a business that fits your spirit and personality in the equine world. How would you like to live on the edge of a reserve with wild ponies that everyone adores, then take equine trail treks across mountain trails for hundreds of miles in Spain or the Netherlands? How about riding horseback from Mexico to Canada? Then, when you get back share your adventures through books and motivational speaking opportunities throughout the world.

Her story is truly inspirational and amazing. You will LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, listening to Tracy.

SHOW NOTES

Show notes are sentences and phrases and words that indicate what is being discussed in the interview along with any websites and links for your further exploration.

How did you get involved with horses and photography?

Lives at Dartmoor in England. Rode the ponies as a child. Tried to get into school for art, but did not qualify.

Joined the traveling circus taking care of the horses. Somewhere along the line I picked up a camera and found that

2011 – across Greece and Italy over the Alps across norther Spain. 5 month trips.

Began her business in photography photographing for several magazines. One went bust so she started selling postcards of Dartmoor ponies. Living off 5 pounds a week for a period of time. That was 23 years ago. Now my business of calendars, greeting cards, books funds my adventures then when I come back I give talks about LIVING YOUR DREAMS. I talk about overcoming obstacles.

People are inspired to live their own dreams after hearing the struggles and overcoming which I talk about.

In the spring she had 20 talks. Working on a children’s book about Rainbow, her pony. Sells greeting cards, novelettes, calendars, children’s books, horseback travel adventure books.

Started one adventure with $100. Faith into action. Took on jobs to fund the adventure. Purchased the horses. Crossing the southern Alps. Flash floods. New Zealand. Raised money for disabled riding programs.

Ride from Mexico to Canada. Drug smugglers, snakes, mountain lions, mountains.

Her European adventure included tunnels, refugees, mountains, mountain goats, dangers of many kinds.

http://www.traceyelliotreep.com

Riding by Faith Across Southern Europe

A gripping journey with two Greek ponies from the arid heat of Greece, across the Alps of southern Europe, to the ancient pilgrim trail of northwest Spain.

Riding by Faith Across America

A stunning photographic account of a dream becoming reality, as Tracey rode all the way from Mexico to Canada following the Rocky Mountains. An inspirational, informative and humorous taste of life in the American West, past and present.

Riding by Faith Through New Zealand

Tracey’s first big adventure started with faith, a friend and only a few pounds in her pocket. They travelled the length of the North and South Islands of New Zealand, across mountains and battled through cyclones, floods and droughts.

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Phyllis has been part owner and manager of Burchett Training Center for over 30 years so it was only natural for her to turn to equine photography. Her knowledge of horses helps her to fulfill her creative vision for the Equine Form as art.  Her passion for beautiful light and candid moments inspires and fuels her to make images that make the viewer want to come along on her journey. Join us now as we talk to Phyllis about her life and journey as an equine photographer and artist.

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Website: http://phyllisburchettphoto.net

Workshops: http://phyllisburchettphoto.net/workshops/

Iceland photography tour: http://phyllisburchettphoto.net/iceland-tour-2016/

Winter horse photography tour: http://phyllisburchettphoto.net/winter-horse-photography-tour/

She has a blog which you can sign-up for email subscribe on her website.

Show notes are just rough notes, phrases and sentences to give you some clues about what was discussed during the interview.

She has been in the horse business since her teens.

Late 1990s had 14 stations and did lots of stud service. 45 Acre farm. Had as many as ten people working for them. 2003 started getting burned out on horse breeding business. Went to a workshop and caught the bug. Bought a film camera. Back country Yellowstone tours. Was “possessed with photography”.

Known for wildlife and bird photography. Polar bears in Canada. Now, it’s horses, bears, and birds. Sold the farm, but works at the farm part-time as part of the purchase agreement. Breeding crashed 2008 and has diminished a lot.

Today in your photography business. She is in two galleries. She does instruction. Portrait work is word of mouth. 50% or more of her portraits are horse and rider or owner and pet portraits. Connects a lot with people through Facebook. Workshops and tours are mainly equine related.

Workshops are one day from dawn to dusk.

Poems Art and World Art represent about 15% of her income.

Enjoys much of what she does. #1 Horses, #2 Nature, If I could do workshops every day, it’s what I love to do.

Doing an Icelandic horse tour and workshop in Iceland.

For new photographers, it’s good to be well rounded. She does architectural photography. Leading to a photographic riding tour with horse pictures. Has a waiting list.

One day workshop around $179.00.

Iceland tour is around $3500.00 excluding airfare.

Riding and photography tour – beta test was too low. This year will be more. Gigi chimes in, “I could be your cook. I used to be a chef.” Gigi says, “Phyllis is a great teacher.”

PPA, ASMP, NAMPA, LOCAL Affiliate Chapters, Equine photographers Network.

Equipment: Nikon from fish eye to 600mm (birds). D4, D810, D7200,  70-200 is favorite lens for horse and a lot of portrait work.

Small studio, not a store front studio, just a room at the farm. Will set up at the Gallery for holiday portraits to promote the gallery also. Sees herself as an artist. Encourage new photographers to get involved locally.

50% Equine photography – Includes horse and rider, tours, teaching, fine art equine sales, farm

15% Portraits including pet photography

15% Fine art nature photography

20% Teaching through the gallery and one-on-one mentor tutoring.

Portrait clients will see 15-25 images completely post processed. Small town. Spends more time in post processing than in the actual session. Prices with other full-time professionals in the area.

Do competitions. PPA judging. To learn.

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