Birthday Girl!

The weather was cool and comfortable and it was a perfect day for a photo shoot. Lucky me, my friend Rob brought his camera and fancy lenses to take Birthday shots of me and Jess as a memory and celebration of the day. Jess had a pampering bath the day before, and I used that blackening shampoo that tones any red in the hair to dark brown and whitened her sock, and she was very good at following my instruction not to mess her hair up too much in time for her close-ups! The shoot was really about getting portraits of the pony as a gift to me, although I snuck in on a couple of frrames (hence the not-much-attention-paid-to-my-styling) and yes, hence, I am riding in a skirt! But I think the results were terrific and some worthy of blowing up really big and framing forever. (I've always known Jess was an equine supermodel --and with her impatient temperament too!) And Owl Creek was a lovely place for a shoot -- right in the horses paddock is about as picturesque as any scene in all of Colorado. It was hard fighting off the other horses -- some of her friends and foes seemed to be jealous of the attention she was getting -- I tried to tell them it was a 'closed set' but they tried to get in on the action anyway! Here are some of the highlights.