A Trip to the Beach

Luckily I was able to escape the snow for a week and my family decided to head down south to a cool oceanside town. And for me, trip to the beach pretty much requires me to bring my camera. Luckily, with my new camera case, I'm able to keep a few of my little plastic ponies inside of it. For this trip, I brought my new Safari, who doesn't have a name as of the moment, (and as I said before, I'll get around to a blog post), and one of my old Stablemate foals. I'm beginning to efficiently manipulate shutter speed and aperture to get the lighting of the pictures that I want. These were taken around sunset.

Model Materials

So, I've been looking for some time to try and find sufficient footing for my photos, but I usually cannot find anything. We'll I went to my local craft store, and apparently they have a miniatures section. I was able to pick up a vinyl grass mat, and in my opinion, it looks a lot like the real thing! I will do a post with the model in these first pictures, I forgot I had gotten him

A Christmas Pony: Part Three

And here is the final model I got (in this case, bought myself) for christmas...

Harley D. Zip!

For some time I have wanted him, because I loved Latigo when he came out. And for $28 at Tractor Supply, who could say no? His position looks like he is dancing on his toes, which is sort of funny, it doesn't look the most natural, but i like it. He has itty bitty horseshoes, and he was the first model I had that had them. His coloring is really nice also, and as far as I can tell, he is LSQ

A Christmas Pony: Part Two

My second traditional I got for Christmas! Zenyatta!

She looks really like the real horse! Her mold is really pretty, along with her awesome color. But her coat can't decide what color it is. She looks almost black when she sits up on my shelf. But, as you will see in these pictures, she reflects colors a lot. And she is dappled, I think.  Its really hard to tell, it might just be the model, or Zenyatta in real life has subtle dappling. She looks dark in some, and lighter in others...
And really green XD
My favorite part of her has to be her back legs, and that she is a mare :)

A Christmas Pony: Part One

Here is the first horse off of my Christmas Breyer haul. *Drumroll please*
Its the Irish Draught!
And he is *FABULOUS*! I named him Hickory Lane, after a line from the chorus of Guster's song, Ramona
He is a beautiful shade of Flaxen Liver Chestnut. I feel like Breyer is progressively getting better with the details in their coloring of the horses, my favorite has to be the pupil and brown eye. And is cute little sock. He's big, and heavy, so I'm hoping no shelf-dominoes will occur because of him. He may just be my favorite of all the new ones I got, and color-wise, but Jesse is still my favorite overall because of the mold.

Here are some model shots, he seems to do great in photo shoots. My Zenyatta? Not so much XD