Museums
There are Museums dedicated to the Equine culture all over the world. We offer an exhaustive list of Western Museums, Rodeo Museums and Carriage Driving Museums throughout the United States and Internationally from Europe to Asia. Explore this fascinating world! Read more...
Paintings
Artists all over the United States and around the world specialize in a wide variety of styles and genres, portraying the Horse and the people who have them in their lives. There's also the highly unusual approach of giving the Horse a paint brush and letting him create their own art on canvas. Unbelievable but true. Many charities, rehoming and retirement organizations raise significant funds from Paintings devoted to horses.Read more...
Photography
There are people who specialize in different types of Equine photography from Portraiture to Rodeo, capturing live events. We offer an extensive resource of Photographers located all across the United States and around the world. The locations are only as a reference and photographers often travel extensively to perform their craft. Please contact the photographer directly regarding your specific location needs. Read more...
Sculpture
The ancient art of Sculpture is alive and thriving today. We offer a selection of Sculptors from the United States and Internationally. There are artists who use the expected mediums of bronze or marble, but there is also a fascinating trend to use drift wood and other natural mediums to capture the three dimensional form of the horse. Read more...
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by Nick Compton. Photos Courtesy Galerie Perrotin.
How do you get four horses most of the way up the Eiffel Tower? In the lift, two at a time, of course. We know this for certain because the Italian artist Paola Pivi has done it. And to otherworldly effect.
Read more: Horsing around: Paola Pivi reaches new heights at the Eiffel Tower
By Candace Chaney, Contributing Culture Writer
Robert Vavra is one of the most famous horse photographers in the world, but he doesn't see himself that way.
"I view myself more as an artist and storyteller," says Vavra, 76, who runs two miles a day and has the voice of a man decades younger.
The artistry has made his work an international success, with decades of endurance. Romantic, mythical and boldly evocative, Vavra's photographic compositions of horses seem like something from a magical storybook come to life.
"My aim is to capture the true romance and beauty of the horse," says Vavra, something he has done as an author and photographer of nearly 40 books whose subjects span continents and six decades.
On Saturday, the International Museum of the Horse at the Kentucky Horse Park will open Vavra's Vision: The Equine Images of Robert Vavra, the first major retrospective of Vavra's 60-year career as an equine photographer. It continues through May 30.
Read more: First Retrospective by Robert Vavra, horse photographer nonpareil
By Ann S. Gordon, CPP
Read the original article on Professional Photographer here...
When I was 8 years old, I was photographing horses with my Brownie Flash Six-20. The camera had two settings: 5 to 10 feet and “Beyond 10 feet,” which I probably didn’t use reliably. The horses in those images had bulbous noses, large heads, and very long back legs.
Today, more than 50 years later and having photographed hundreds of equines in my animal portraiture business, I know how to make the animals look their best and reflect the breed or equestrian sport their owners enjoy.
Even if you don't specialize in animal photography, you may be asked by clients to include a horse in a portrait, as was a friend of mine recently. If so, you’ll find the following tips helpful in capturing wonderful images of the large, easily distorted, incredibly beautiful animal that is the horse.
1. Use a long lens. Try a 200mm or 300mm lens, and stand back as far as 1 foot per millimeter. In other words, when using a 200mm lens, shoot from 150 to 200 feet. This helps minimize the distortion that can happen when photographing such a large animal.
2. Use a fast shutter speed. A minimum of 1/250 to 1/500 second is best. You can use shutter priority to make sure things don’t blur if you’re working in an arena where the light is constantly changing, but I like to use my manual setting for most things. Even with a standing horse, those ears move, as does the tail.
3. Have an assistant. You’ll need one to make noises, move horse feet, rattle buckets, and hold onto a fractious horse so the owner can look relaxed. In order to keep the animal calm, the assistant needs to be very comfortable with horses.
4. Get down. Your lens should be at the mid-shoulder of the horse. Any higher than that, and the animal’s legs will look short. If you’re too low, the legs will appear long—really long. I wear gel kneepads so I can move quickly without hurting myself.
Read more: Horse Sense: 12 Tricks for Better Equine Photography
By John Hall, 15 January 2014
Read the original article on Daily Mail UK
These majestic horses galloping through the sea may look real but are in fact made from thousands of pieces of driftwood salvaged from the shore.
The life-size sculptures are the work of Birmingham-based master craftsman James Doran-Webb, 46, who spent a painstaking six months assembling them as part of celebrations to mark Chinese New Year in Singapore.
Each of the three sculptures stands at around 6ft tall - or 16 hands as horse lovers might say - and is made from roughly 400 pieces of driftwood of varying sizes built around a stainless steel skeleton.
Each horse weighs around half a ton and can take the weight of five people.
Read more: Hobby horses: Artist's life-size beach sculptures made from driftwood
