Life as an event photographer isn’t always easy – but then neither is taking part. It was a very wet and very wild day today at the Linlithgow & Stirlingshire Pony Club One Day Event at Dalmeny.
I was just covering the showjumping – and yes at one point it was so bad that everyone ran for cover in the nearest horsebox.
And yet we also had some beautiful weather – a proper Scottish summers day.
Fife Hunt Pony Club ODE at Scone
I was photographing the showjumping at the Fife Hunt Pony Club ODE at Scone today. They had a lot of competitors which made for a long day, but it all seemed to go off very well.
Fife Hunt Pony Club ODE at Scone
Another Linlithgow & Stirlingshire Pony Club event at the Scottish National Equestrian Centre (SNEC) at Oatridge College.
It was a pretty full-on day – show jumping classes started at 8.30am, and we were still takings photographs for the last one at 9pm, with the snow falling deep and thick and even outside.
But it was a great event – lots of teams in every class, all having a lot of fun. The course-builders were very helpful in giving us good positions to get the best showjumping photos possible.
It was a long hard day but we came out with almost 1500 quality photos to go on the website, and orders are now pouring in so it was well worth it.
Nicole from the Linlithgow & Stirlingshire Pony Club asked me to come down and take some event photos at their annual fun show at the Scottish National Equestrian Centre (SNEC) at Oatridge in West Lothian.
As well as the usual show jumping classes there were lots of fun competitions, including fancy dress, parent & pony, horse & hound and Chase Me Charlie. Conditions for photography were not the best due to the poor lighting in the warm-up arena where most of the jumping was held, but fortunately we have the latest Nikon equipment which performs superbly in low light, so were still able to get very printable shots even at the end of the day.
