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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Post for 12/2/2011 - 7/28/2012

Dec 2, '11 9:33 PM
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#1


#2 Little Joe as a foal



#3 My horse Jake in round pen

#4 Jake and the early morning sun


                                                    #5 Diamond and the setting sun
                                                  #6 April late in the evening


                                                #7 the boys and the setting sun


                                             #8 Heather on Chuck at training barn


                                         #9 Heather and Little Joe at training barn



                                           #10 Diamond and the early morning fog


                                     #11 Heather on a client's horse at the training barn


                          #12 Amie on the mule she bought and the low setting sun


                             #13 Little Joe and the rising sun at Pole Canyon Ranch


                                       #14 Rising sun and Pole Canyon Ranch


                                          #15 Rising sun and Pole Canyon Ranch


                                           #16 Rising sun and Pole Canyon Ranch


                                       #17 Rising sun and Pole Canyon Ranch


                                        #18 rising sun and Pole Canyon Ranch


                                           #19 rising sun and Pole Canyon Ranch


          #20 Large statue inside the AQHA Hall of Fame and Museum (Amarillo, TX)



Better stop before I put too many photos into this blog.  Silhouette is one of my favorite ways to photograph the horses (and other things).

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Nov 25, '11 6:28 PM
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Not sure I am doing this right, didn't really intend for these photos to be blurred but they are.  Very busy Thanksgiving long weekend, so will post these photos anyway.














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Nov 2, '11 2:28 PM
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One of my favorite photos as an entry for the header competition. Photo:  2009 in the Carson National Forest at Clayton Corrals looking towards the Big Vidal. 
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Oct 28, '11 7:54 PM
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Three photos taken over three years while we were trail riding on the Pole Canyon Ranch.  Pancho has sure matured and grown. 

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Oct 21, '11 3:26 PM
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Time is so short this week so going with this photo.  I've had several folks tell me that the top part of Diamond's blaze looks like a heart, so for this week, her markings have a heart plus she is a real sweetheart of a filly.  Not shown is the Rockin' Heart brand but that is not natural.

Photo was recently taken.  Enlarged slightly and Cropped in Photoshop Elements 9.  To join the fun or just view the photos:

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Oct 7, '11 7:54 PM
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Photo: Taken last week, Diamond in the front yard with he Nikon D7000
Programs:  Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 and Picnik.com

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Sep 30, '11 7:18 AM
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I give you two of my favorite things:




Diamond, Diamond quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With sunflowers so pretty out on the Prairie,
Quite an extra ordinary show.


Photo:  9/28/2011  Nikon D 7000

4 year old Diamond and the sunflowers at the end of our flower beds next to the drive way in front of the house.  Transition spot between pasture and yard.  I was trying to copy a photo I took of Diamond in this spot when she was a yearling about this same time of the year.  I used that photo in a PP for Nursery Rhyme and it made top ten honorable mention:
Lynda's Rockin' Heart Ranch: Picture Perfect Competition # 2 ~ Nursery Rhymes

And here is the photo of Diamond as a weanling. 


Flowers: Maximillion Sunflower (Perennial)

Programs:   Enlarged & Cropped & Edited on Adobe Photoshop Elements 9, then a frame and title on Picnik.



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Sep 23, '11 10:06 PM
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What Letter is It?
M's ~*~ W's ~*~ V's
It's Your Choice.



Photo:  Taken today, 9/23/2011 with Nikon D7000

Program: Adobe Photoshop Elements to adjust color, enlarge and crop.  Picnic.com for the frame. 

What:  A hand braided rawhide bosal, part of the hackamore.  Jake, my horse is the model.

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Sep 22, '11 8:49 AM
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Photo:  Photo was taken this past week for use in the Little Joe Blogs on Multiply.  The last blog: I Didn't Know I Had a Fan Club!

Program:  Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 combined with Picnik.com

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Sep 21, '11 11:21 AM
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Photo: Ground Driving Dillon around the trail course as part of his training to prepare him for riding.  7/2/2010 on our place.  I am walking behind Dillon at a safe distance, have the driving lines and telling where to go as if he was hitched to a wagon.  I am also taking photos as this training is taking place. 

Picnik.com for frame and text. 

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Sep 20, '11 7:11 AM
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Peaceful Evening on the
Parched Plains of the Texas Panhandle
With the Palomino Diamond & April
In their Pasture with a Panoramic View
Perfect for a Picture Perfect Photo



Photo: Nikon D-7000 August 6, 2011 on our place. 
Program:  Slight adjustments with Adobe Photoshop Elements

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Sep 19, '11 8:15 AM
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Photo taken 4/10/10 at a local High School Rodeo with Nikon D-50. 
Adobe Photoshop Elements and Picnik.com for editing

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Sep 18, '11 9:08 AM
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A week of photos representing a different letter each day.



Photos taken the middle of August 2011 on our place.  Subject:  April, the 6 year old crippled mare.  Small in size but all heart and true grit.  She does not have full use of her left rear.  Tore and stretched ligaments as a three year old. 

Camera: Nikon D 7000  Programs: Adobe Photoshop Elements and Picnik.com 

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Sep 17, '11 7:02 AM
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Week long of fun, each day a different letter.

Brothers & the Umbrella





The photo of Doc was taken when he was 16 months old and the photo of his full brother Dillon was taken when Dillon was 26 months old.  Two of a kind but so different. 

This is our obstacle course for the horses to learn how to handle different situations that might occur.  We have a large box of items that we keep in the  barn that can be arranged different each time plus the items that stay on the course (in other words, the wind doesn't blow them away).

Collage was done in www.picnik.com  but I don't remember when, quite some time back. 

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Sep 16, '11 4:59 PM
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A Curious Colt
Carefully pulls
His Cart with the
Red Crate & his Computer
from Cat-Man-Du Computer Store
So the Curious Colt named Little Joe
Can Complete his blog about
Meeting his fan Club.




Photo:  Taken this afternoon 9/16/2011 with Nikon D7000 on automatic setting

Program: Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.  Cloned out some rope and a manure rack, and some small items in the background. 

Reason for photo:  To be used in a fun blog written by Little Joe (the horse in the photo). Here's the link to the story: I Didn't Know I Had a Fan Club!

I hope my entry brought a smile to your face, it sure was fun getting this photo.  Little Joe is such a trooper and a fun little fellow.  To see more C's:
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Sep 9, '11 8:01 AM
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Hirsute -- another word not in my country Texas language so thanks for the explanation, didn't have to go to the dictionary....Covered with coarse, stiff hairs -- in this case frozen stiff hairs.
  

Iced Colt




Colt's iced hair made for a rather Hirsute hair day. 
Date: January 14, 2007
Camera: Nikon D-50
Horse: Colt

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I do hope my entry brought a smile to your face because Colt sure doesn't look very happy about the situation.
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Sep 2, '11 4:36 PM
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Alliteration is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.
                   ~*~*~*~The Unsaddled Dappled back
with a muscled Chubby Smutty butt
adorned with Brighter Spider dapples
on the Prima Donna Wanna be
is the Diamond Excitement
Viva Diva of the Rockin' Heart Ranch


Rockin Heart Diamond aka Diamond
Our 4 year old American Quarter Horse filly
Full sister to Little Joe the buckskin gelding

Photo Info: 
 Date taken: September 2, 2011
 Camera: Nikon D7000 automatic setting
 Where: Rockin' Heart Ranch front yard
 Photo programs: Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 & picnik.com

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And if you don't believe Diamond is a Prima Donna & Diva, just read what she had to say:
The Rockin' Heart Horse Spa
~*~*~*
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Aug 26, '11 6:56 PM
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High Five in Celebration


Two Teens high five while surrounded by family and friends after a successful run in the youth reining class during an American Quarter Horse Association horse show in Amarillo, Texas.

Casady, the girl in the hat is my cousin's grand-daughter.  So Russ and I were celebrating in the stands after watching her winning run.  Lots of photos were taken for Casady and family members that couldn't be at the competition to watch in person.  

Camera: Nikon D7000  18-200 zoom lens
Programs: Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 and http://www.picnik.com
Date: July 24, 2011 at the Bill Cody Arena on the Tri-State Fair Grounds

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Aug 19, '11 12:36 PM
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                         -- Sight, Sound, Touch, Taste and Smell


Sight:  If it looks like a spook, it sure might be a spook
Sound:  If it makes noise in the wind, it sure might be a spook
Smell:  I can smell the spook without touching the spook!
Touch:  If you ask me to touch it, I might change my mind about it being a spook
Taste:  That sack taste like my horse treats from http://www.coolhorse.com/

We have a training obstacle course in a small area of our place.  Various things that a horse needs to become familiar with and accept.  Little Joe is our youngest horse.  In this photo taken August 8, 2011 he has not been ridden.  I had added a few things to the course and rearranged a few.  At this "spook" there is a rope tied between two trees.  The pool noodles are hanging from the rope and moving in the wind.  Basically no sound but the paper sack from the feed store does move in the wind and does make racket!  It is the new "spook" at this spot.  The noodles was a piece of cake for Little Joe as we have had them for a long time.  But the sack - a new spook.  And yes, he did want to eat the sack after he realized it smelled really good.  Some times friends come over to take their horses through our obstacle course.  It's a great training aid.  Here are more photos taken this same day with the Nikon D-7000.    Russ leading Little Joe though the "spook" course. Little Joe on the Trail Course Today and this is me riding my horse Jake first on the course and then pony Doc from Jake through the course:  
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Jul 28, '11 9:22 PM
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Thursday 7/28/2011

We have been very hot and very dry.  Records have been broken on the number of days above 100 degrees.  Fire danger is high but hopefully the tropical storm will push some moisture our way. 
The past few mornings have started with a big red sun rising and a few clouds in the sky.  Still a bit hazy on the horizon. 
 
I took a few photos this morning. Still playing with the new camera. Nikon D7000 with 18-200 lens.   About mid morning I went outside for some reason, don't remember why and thought I saw an eagle so I hurried back inside for camera and binoculars.  Lost track of the bird as it flew low hunting in the pastures.  Doc came back to the corral for another drink.  The horses have sure been drinking a lot of water in this heat.  Visited with him and took photos of him drinking, water dripping from his mouth, etc.  Here's one.  If you look close the fish are visible.  Doc has his own style of drinking in the way he stretches his neck, learned from his mom.  She drinks the same way and so does Doc's brother Dillon. 

It is getting hot and wind is getting up so back in the house. Regular house chores and started lunch. Green chili fajitas made in the cast iron wok. Also sliced some cookie dough I had made and put in the fridge. One pan of  raisin oatmeal for Russ and one pan of chocolate chip oatmeal for me.  Mid afternoon I took camera out for some trial and error type shots.  Played with different setting for taking flower photos.  Here the new water lily.  First bloom for this plant in a little pond just south of the house. Color is not exactly right with the setting I chose.  The plant if more apricot in real life.
 
Later in the afternoon I got brave and decided to take a walk in the heat, so off to the pasture to catch Jake and Doc.  They drank lots of water when I brought them to the corral, then groomed and saddled Doc.  Trying to decide which saddle fits him (and me) the best.  Rode Doc and ponied Jake.  But mostly I was keeping an eye on smoke to our south west.  This photo was taken while I was riding with a Canon A1200 that I carry in my shirt pocket.  One of the few small point and shoots that actually has a view finder. 
 
Only took a short slow ride but Doc was sweaty under the blanket so he got a good rinsing, a treat then turned loose. Jake got a treat, a rinse and turned loose. Came in to rest, get a bit to eat and then back out for a short walk and see if the clouds were coming our way. This photo is our non working windmill (electric pump). The bird is a curved billed thrasher. His song is nice.

I adjusted the "critter cam" camera in the corral to see if we can capture on SD card what made the tracks in the corral last night. That camera has been interesting. Found out we have had lots of "visitors" during the night. Skunks, Racoons, cats, kangaroo rats, plus the many birds during the day.
Not much excitement today but this picture perfect has sure been fun.
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