We Shoot Horses, Don’t We?

Here is the situation. I am inside a paddock with a stallion, two grooms and the farm manager. This is not something I recommend you try. Stallions are fully operational horses if you get my drift. Plus, it is still breeding season so all the stallions are flooded with testosterone. This makes them, like any male in a similar condition, unpredictable and just a wee bit wild
Horses

This last week I have been down in the Lexington, Kentucky area photographing at Pin Oak Stud, the thoroughbred horse farm that I photograph for their advertisement needs every few years. This is the first posting of several I will share telling what it is like to photograph on assignment, under pressure to produce