Here is your chance to get a photoshoot of you and your horse at a reduced rate, or even for FREE! All you have to do is get two or more fellow riders to commit to a photoshoot. Each participant will get 40 photographs on a disc. The normal price is R650/pp (See the normal rates here)

Organiser + 2 other people = R550/pp (3 people in total)

Organiser + 3 other people = R500/pp (4 people in total)

Organiser (FREE) + 4 other people = R450/pp (5 people in total)

Be sure to read the terms and conditions below.

Terms & Conditions:

• This promotion is for the Gauteng area only. A travel fee will apply to areas outside of Gauteng.
• This promotion is valid for a limited time only. Be sure to make your bookings ASAP to avoid disappointment.
• Use the contact form below to make your booking. Feel free to contact me should you have any queries.
• All participating clients will be photographed on the same day at the same venue.
• In order to secure a booking the organiser will have to collect the monies from the other participants.
• Bookings will be handled on a first come first served basis.
• Each client will be sent a link to a private gallery where they select their photos. The photographs will then be processed and will be ready for high quality printing and online sharing.
• Each client will receive their images on a disc, and can be collected from the organiser. A postage/courier fee will be charged should you require your disc to be sent to a different location.

I would like to share some photographs from a recent shoot of Caty and her horse, Blue.

It was a typical winter sunset in Johannesburg. The sun was warm and plenty of dust in the air as we eagerly await the rainy season to start. This does however help to create soft warm light.

I really enjoy working with people that love their animals. So many claim to love them but one can quickly tell the pretenders from the true horsemen. Caty is gentle and quiet around her horse. This helps to create pictures that tell a story.

Skin mottling is usually seen around the muzzle, eyes, anus, and genitalia. Striped hooves are a common trait, quite noticeable on Appaloosas, but not unique to the breed. The sclera is the part of the eye surrounding the iris. Although all horses show white around the eye if the eye is rolled back, to have a readily visible white sclera with the eye in a normal position is a distinctive characteristic seen more often in Appaloosas than in other breeds.

The coat color of an Appaloosa is a combination of a base color with an overlaid spotting pattern. The base colors recognized by the Appaloosa Horse Club include bay, black, chestnut, palomino, buckskin, cremello or perlino, roan, gray, dun and grulla.

Appaloosa markings have several pattern variations. It is this unique group of spotting patterns, collectively called the “leopard complex”, that most people associate with the Appaloosa horse. Spots overlay darker skin, and are often surrounded by a “halo”, where the skin next to the spot is also dark but the overlying hair coat is white.

It is not always easy to predict a grown Appaloosa’s color at birth. Foals of any breed tend to be born with coats that darken when they shed their baby hair. In addition, Appaloosa foals do not always show classic leopard complex characteristics. Patterns sometimes change over the course of the horse’s life although some, such as the blanket and lepoard patterns, tend to be stable. Horses with the varnish roan and snowflake patterns are especially prone to show very little color pattern at birth, developing more visible spotting as they get older.

Domesticated horses with leopard complex spotting patterns have been depicted in art dating as far back as Ancient Greece.

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