My Journal
Life is full of stories and everyone has one they are waiting to tell…
Every single one of my personal equine shoots is full of individuality, full of interest and emotion. Stories that make them different from the next person and yet they each have one common theme – a love for their horse. You can find some of my fabulous ‘Client Stories’ here.
Within ‘Tog Blog’ you’ll discover more about me, the person behind the camera. You’ll find out what makes my world go round and what goes round my head too. Some of these journal blogs are, hopefully, an insight into the equine photography world and will provide answers to some of the many questions you may have regarding equine photography too. Some of my posts may be of a more light-hearted view.
So grab yourself a comfy chair and delve in!
Rachel x
Back in the Saddle… Part 7 Forwards & Backwards
All has been going well with Tiny and I at home. He's not put a foot wrong and we are slowly building our relationship together both on the ground and in the saddle. However things [...]
Back in the Saddle… Part 6 Sit Up!!!
My main competitive years growing up was in the Show Jumping arena. During my teenage years I was really lucky to be in a position to ride and own some pretty speedy accurate and jumping [...]
Back in the Saddle… Part 5 Fresh Do’s & Shoe Issues!
We've reached the month point since I've been back in the saddle with a new horse of my own, Tiny, and it's starting to feel like second nature with the daily and weekly routines. One [...]
Tamsin & Zeke
There's a phrase I heard some time ago that someone was quoting to me about their personal situation. After meeting Tamsin, and her 18hh chestnut gelding Zeke, on our recent shoot that quote came back [...]
Caroline & Beatrice
I meet Caroline after I ran a competition, however it turns out that we have quite a few mutual friends. Which for someone that hasn't been in the South West all that long was quite [...]
Back in the Saddle… Part 4 Cross Country schooling the orange one.
At the entrance to a cross country schooling facility I was giggling like an idiot. I’m not sure why really as deep down I was somewhat terrified at the prospect. Bar 2 jumps out hunting [...]
Back in the Saddle… Part 3
Having made the decision to buy little Tiny I set about making a list of things I needed for him. Obviously the bridle was already on the list from Tony but given his height much [...]
Back in the Saddle… Part 2
Anyone remember from the first part of this mini series (you can catch up with Part 1 here) that in our search for a new horse for me we had a list of things we [...]
Back in the Saddle… Part 1
I’m not really sure how to start this. There’s probably lots of brilliant, clever and hilarious ways to start something like this but for the life of me I can’t think of any, bar the [...]
Dan & Gypsy
I first met Daniel when his girlfriend, Becky, had a shoot with me earlier in the year. Daniel was such a brilliant help on that shoot in so many ways and it was a particularly [...]
Style, Skills & Silver Workshop with Hiho Silver – The Result
If you read my recent Blog SSS - Why Me? you'll know I was incredibly nervous about being part of the team due to present at the Style, Skills & Silver Insta style workshop. The event was [...]
Style, Skills & Silver with Hiho Silver Workshop – Why Me?!
In the run up to the Style, Skills & Silver Insta-style workshop that I'm taking part in, hosted by Hiho Silver, I sat down the other day and looked long and hard at myself to [...]
Kate, Curran & Boris
I think I met Kate back in the spring of 2017 not long after I moved into Somerset, however I didn't really get to know her until the following Autumn and our friendship has blossomed [...]
Katie & Breeze
I first met Katie about 10 months ago when she had a mini shoot with me, so I was really happy to revisit her and her Welsh Cob mare Breeze again in the beautiful Dorset [...]
Fun at a Black Background Yard Session
I recently headed into the South Hams area in Devon for a yard booking of Black Background sessions. These yard sessions are so much fun and give me chance to scratch and sniff a lot [...]
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