Debbie Lund - Western artist - Originals For Sale

"The Eventer"
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$1,000.00

The Eventer

My passion is to some day to be able to have the time to get back into 3-Day Eventing. It is the most amazing, challenging, and heart thumping experience I’ve ever known. To have the controlled power of a horse beneath you, going as fast as you can through a vast cross-country course is quite exhilarating to say the least.

I had the opportunity to shadow a professional equestrian photographer and after I reassured him I was not his competition, we had a wonderful day together. He taught me so many things on style, composition, tips on what makes a great photo shot from an average one, lighting and total overall art of horse photography. He was such an inspiration for me; he even let me use his BIG digital camera…WOW! Honestly, it really doesn’t take much to make me happy! I was defiantly in my element that day, what an opportunity he gave me, and we had so much fun.

So after many hours of watching and learning, I decided to take all my newfound information I learned and put a bit of an artistic twist to it. Helpful hint… stay out of harms way and put yourself into a safe spot with the smallest amount of risk of bodily injury, need I say more? That artistic passion seems to come at a dangerous cost at times. But a few hundred effective photos were taken and one of them was created to be this beautiful horse art portrait “The Eventer”.

I am proud to say that this equestrian horse art portrait was juried and accepted into the ‘Hyper-Real’ show in Vancouver, British Columbia this April, 2006 through the Federation of Canadian Artists and was displayed in their gallery for 2 weeks. So it was worth the occasional ‘mad dash’ and ‘close calls’ to capture ‘that one moment’.