CONTINUED >>
This time Loren and I went to 6 competitions in the course of 3 weekends:
320 Ranch, MT; Midway, UT; Pinedale, WY; Bellevue, ID; Leadville, CO; Saratoga, WY.
I just wanted to see as much as I possibly could in a rather short time. It was quite a marathon! But I am very happy to have done it! If you find likeminded people, you can move mountains.
Taking Skijoring pictures is very tricky – everything is very long: the track, the rope, the side to side and up and down movements of the skier – which makes it imperative to be clear what you want to keep in the frame and what can be sacrificed.
At Soldier Hollow, if you happen to lose your skier, you might as well capture the rings yourself on horseback!
John Hyde of Boulder, Wyoming and his close friend and family member, Skippy. Skippy retired from skijoring last year at the age of 20 and is now a proud flag bearer and parade horse.
that I would love to come over and take pictures of the competition, only being a city dweller I did not drive a car. Loren organized all my logistics on my very first trip to the American West. Following that great experience, I had
another good thing coming - SKI Magazine used 6 of my pictures for their February 2017 article ‘Dangerous’. That was a great encouragement for me to photograph more skijoring events, and this I did in February-March 2017!