Anna, her horse, and hedge apples

While photographing an all-day event, we "killed two birds with one stone" and photographed Anna's high school senior Autumn portraits.  Anna loves animals and they love her as you can see by her favorites images shown below.  Anna mentioned that she would like a photo with her horse and include their pond but said it was too ugly for a setting.  Yes, the pond looked ugly but it doesn't take much to make a ugly setting into a beautiful one as you will see on her pond image. Anna also wanted a portrait with hedge apples so the last image she is posing in her hedge tree.

I will always remember this session and the love that I got to "capture" during this special day in the lives of Anna's family!

We're free!

"We're free!"  That's how our two horses and four donkeys looked like when we let them out into the pasture after they had been confined to a few acres for a few months while my husband moved the fence closer to our entry road (see first photo below),  The photos below are my favorites that were taken while riding the tractor and following them around the pasture.  To see a slideshow of all of the photos, click here.  Enjoy!

Nine Fuzzy Babies

Nine fuzzy baby steers recently joined The Smith Ranch.  The average weight for the nine angus steers was 327 pounds.  This is our third year for getting cattle and these are the smallest ones we have gotten so far. It's so neat to watch how our horses and donkeys reacted to their new family members. I thought you would enjoy seeing them interact so I have included some of my favorites from their photo session!  :D