Behind the scenes of a challenge...

You might have seen that my friend Clème (@agrasstory) and me have spent a few days together and as soon as I launched the idea of the one picture a day challenge, we hoped on our first idea...

Sunday, on a military shooting range, we took a trio of western riders.

As Clème just had bough us a lot of two resins (one for her, one for me), we got new "horses" to introduce, so we ended picturing them as well.

It was the day I arrived, so we didn't do much, but it was off a great start!

Monday, we went riding. Clème have a black mule, her name is Brune and you probably have seen her a few time on this blog.

But that was not about me riding, the real goal was to do pictures, so we went out of the barn looking for ideas.

 

Showing mule skills...

And searching in the woods for something to jump!

Of course, I had to try this as well.

Then it was time to plot again for a modelhorse picture, we decided that for our mental sanity we needed to find easier things for some days and created a still-life scenery of horses in a pasture in the evening.

Tuesday after a movie at the theater we went at a place called devil rock, with native figure and props wildhorses... I loved this place and we did quite an unusual setting.

Behind the scene of the mess it make to do modelhorse pictures...

Wednesday, after a great carriage ride we did pictures at the barn...

 
Do you want to hear the sound of this?

While one was playing, the other was grazing the mule!

Thursday, we had planned a picture with a castle. We went at Fontainebleau, started doing pictures then... we were told we weren't allowed to do pictures that needed an "installation" on the castle garden/ground. It's the first time ever it happend to me, I've done picture in several well known place and it never had been a problem. I've read the castle picture reglementation and didn't found it wasn't allowed, nowhere nor on the entrance, nor on their website. We were pretty mad, because that's a total nonsense, but decided to head back to the castle were Clème is living.

There we got a little helper!

Was it really help?

 

We ended at the barn and I did a few "liberty" pictures of Brune. Because when I'm not picturing miniatures modelhorses, I'm playing with real equines.

 
Saddly my camera is truly showing age signs, I need to upgrade it...

Friday was the last day, we wanted something unusual and staged each side of the fence.

Then, it was already time to say goodbye...

At the end of this week, we were a bit exhausted by so many pictures, but at least really glad to have done it! And I've got a lot of extra pictures to show🥰