A3 (c. 16"x12") print on:
Permajet Gold Silk (£26)
Innova Soft-textured matt (£24)
A2 (c. 23"x16") print on:
Permajet Gold Silk (£40)
Innova Soft-textured matt (£36)
Permajet Gold Silk (£40)
Innova Soft-textured matt (£36)
framing suggestion:
Since we moved to Suffolk from London in 2010, I hadn't known the English Sheep Dog Trials to
take place in East Anglia, though that may have been because I just wasn't looking. So it was a
great pleasure to attend Haughley Park in the summer of 2017 and see the dogs competing
against the clock and the sheep. There were plenty of side shows as well, like this demonstration
of affixing 'flights' to a Suffolk Punch. Often said to have “the face of an angel and the backside of
a farmer’s daughter”, these gorgeous heavy horses - the backbone of the countryside until
mechanisation took over - look fabulous in their finery, especially when pulling a farm cart. Sadly,
they can only be seen in harness now at venues like Easton Farm Park, near Wickham Market,
and at the Suffolk Punch Trust near Shingle Street, Hollesley Bay. It is now extremely rare to see
a Punch on the roads, where they were once pre-dominant as dray horses and the like. For this
shot, I naturally wanted both ends in focus without losing shutter speed to a small aperture. But it
was an easy composite image to make, as the horse was rock steady (I've actually softened the
hands slightly to make the photograph look more real).
Since we moved to Suffolk from London in 2010, I hadn't known the English Sheep Dog Trials to take
place in East Anglia, though that may have been because I just wasn't looking. So it was a great
pleasure to attend Haughley Park in the summer of 2017 and see the dogs competing against the
clock and the sheep. There were plenty of side shows as well, like this demonstration of affixing 'flights'
to a Suffolk Punch. Often said to have “the face of an angel and the backside of a farmer’s daughter”,
these gorgeous heavy horses - the backbone of the countryside until mechanisation took over - look
fabulous in their finery, especially when pulling a farm cart. Sadly, they can only be seen in harness now
at venues like Easton Farm Park, near Wickham Market, and at the Suffolk Punch Trust near Shingle
Street, Hollesley Bay. It is now extremely rare to see a Punch on the roads, where they were once
pre-dominant as dray horses and the like. For this shot, I naturally wanted both ends in focus without
losing shutter speed to a small aperture. But it was an easy composite image to make, as the horse
was rock steady (I've actually softened the hands slightly to make the photograph look more real).
Suffolk Punch in flight
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A3 (c. 16"x12") print on:
Permajet Gold Silk (£26)
Innova Soft-textured matt (£24)
A2 (c. 23"x16") print on:
Permajet Gold Silk (£40)
Innova Soft-textured matt (£36)
Permajet Gold Silk (£40)
Innova Soft-textured matt (£36)