A Maine visit

The horses and dogs of my family in Maine!



Mom took me out driving with one of her horses (which I had never done); here's Janna distracting the horse will we climb in the cart. I enjoy the super serious look.


The super serious look did not last long at all.


The view from my seat


I felt a bit sick from the driving, which mom attributed to spending most of my time looking through a camera lens instead of watching the road. Perhaps she has a point.






Lens flare is fun!




Bonus points if you can identify this


Hello beautiful light!






Nap time with the pooch.

California Trip

After my Hawai'i trip, my parents and I flew to San Francisco together to extend our vacation.

We stayed with my parents' friends in San Anselmo, and I adored their sweet dog


I had never been to the redwood forests, so I threw mom in the photo for some scale on this giant tree stump








some lovely seaweed


we visited a few horse ranches






a rather foggy day in San Francisco


the seals!


sfmoma (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)




this amused me

Mom and the horses

Horsey photo shoot!









The mini horses liked to come out and play while mom was riding Máni

Fenway

My good friend Skye brought her adorable dog, Fenway, to visit for the afternoon.

She kept crawling toward the camera with excitement








She was fascinated by mom's horses!


She wanted so badly to be friends with everybody!

Pretty Horses

A week in Maine is never complete without a few horse photos.

Maine animals

I had another great trip to Maine last weekend, and as usual most of the photographs I shot at mom and dad's house were of the animals :)

One of the many chickens roaming the front yard


I love the light in this one!




This one makes me laugh.


A couple non-breathing subjects: these old blue bottles have been on the kitchen window sill for a while and the lighting shining through it was fantastic.


The mascots on dad's dashboard


Zoe sits still so well for portraits.






Rozzie's eyes are so precious!


Stormy: surveying his kingdom






Marggie showing off one of her agility tricks (per my request)


I couldn't have set this shot up any better myself - the dogs all happened to sit down in a perfect line.