I'm flattered :~D Once in a while I get a great shot. None of these are 'great' today, but they're 'good'. ;~D I did have some photography classes in high school and on my own... In college I was the photo editor and only photographer for our college newspaper. That was back in the days when we shot film, in black and white, and had to do all the dark room developing. Cropping was with a knife and we had to paste it on real paper! Nowadays I bet they're all digital too. By practice or by fate, I found my talent was in pictures of people or animals. I can shoot a candid of an event or a game in action, but I can't shoot an interesting landscape if it is on fire. But prop someone up in front of it, and I know how to shoot it ;~D. I've taken great portraits of friends.
It's interesting, because ecurbh is quite a talented artistic landscape photographer, but I think I take better portraits. As a team, you'd think we could hire ourselves out.
With horses, it's half luck. Fractions of a second make the difference between a good shot and a great one, where they are just at the right place in their stride. The key is to take lots of pictures. I toss out 80% of what I shoot.
I've never published any of the horse shots I've taken. I've thought about submitting a couple of them for a calendar contest or something, but I don't know how to do that.
I think that you guys should go out together as a team in photography. But of course, that is just my humble opinion. My aunt and uncle did it for a number of years and they were sucessful at it. They even had their own dark room. (I believe)