the ekka

gus

Its that time of year again when i face the crowds & head off to the ekka with my daughter. I dont like crowds...but she hates going on photographic trips so its payback time.

Its the 129th year that the ekka has been running.

Produce...we grow a lot of bananas around here






I only like looking at the cattle/horses but its time to pay the piper...into the valley rode the 600...........









I got out & back to the horses.



shoeing



They have to make the shoe from an iron bar for the competition.




All ISO 800 @ f/5.6 -2 on my 400 prime...it was very dark in there.







wanted to try & see how i would go doing some fasion shots but got booted out...hey ive been booted out of better places that that !





So i went back to shooting horses

Higgmeister

Nice set, especially the horse shoeing pictures:D. I too don't like crowds and had issues with that last weekend in San Francisco. I'm actually looking forward to our small state fair next week. I'm going to try some evening ride pictures that I can stack. It's pretty small, but I also like the photo section of the fair. I'm entering in 10 shots for my first print competition and expect that I'll have about 10% of the entries. Not good, but a start. Fairs are also great people photo ops which I'm trying to become comfortable with. I see that you pretty much avoided the people shots except for the beauties at the end of your post.

Thanks for sharing,
Chris

Dani

ooooo... got anymore horse pictures!!!!!

Owen

Dani wrote:

ooooo... got anymore horse pictures!!!!!

Are you a rider, Dani?

Andy

Dani wrote:

ooooo... got anymore horse pictures!!!!!

oooo000oooo got any more babe pictures?



great set, 'gus!

gus

Dani wrote:

ooooo... got anymore horse pictures!!!!!

Not many dani...it was just too bright & most washed out.

gus

andy wrote:

oooo000oooo got any more babe pictures?



great set, 'gus!

Yeah but it was as they booted me. I assume i cant show them.

gus

Higgmeister wrote:

Nice set, especially the horse shoeing pictures:D. I too don't like crowds and had issues with that last weekend in San Francisco. I'm actually looking forward to our small state fair next week. I'm going to try some evening ride pictures that I can stack. It's pretty small, but I also like the photo section of the fair. I'm entering in 10 shots for my first print competition and expect that I'll have about 10% of the entries. Not good, but a start. Fairs are also great people photo ops which I'm trying to become comfortable with. I see that you pretty much avoided the people shots except for the beauties at the end of your post.

Thanks for sharing,
Chris

Tks chris...hard to get crowd shots as i wont take photos of kids at all other than my own. I think of it as strangers taking shots of my own & i wouldnt like it.

I would have loved to try & get some shots of the rides though.

Khaos

I really like the flames and hot coals shot. Fire is hard to capture without blowouts. Very nice.

gus

Tks khaos..it was dark in there. Inside a type of big tent with no lighting at all. This would have been great if only i had caught the hammer in it.