August 30, 2013
On Wednesday, I flew to western Michigan to photograph the carriages in this lovely carriage house (on the left); two sweet Morgan mares and a cute pony live in the barn on the right …
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As soon as I’ve downloaded and edited them all, some of the photos I took will appear in an upcoming issue of The Carriage Journal. Others will probably appear here on the blog, so stay tuned.
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To see a few off-topic-for-this-blog photos from my quick trip, head on over to my other blog: Sunlight on Stuff.
July 31, 2013
Today and tomorrow, we’re going back to the CIAT Cuts (held in Cuts, France, back in May). The second morning of the competition featured the “country drive” phase …
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To read more about the entire Cuts competition, see our (A.J.’s and my) article in the August issue of The Carriage Journal. And to see Jacinto Planas Ros (above) and his pair of Spanish horses negotiating one of the exciting driver’s tests during the cross-country drive, check back here tomorrow!
July 18, 2013
A.J. and I wrote an article about the Cuts CIAT (which, as you may recall, we visited in May) for the August issue of The Carriage Journal. To illustrate it, I went through the several hundred photos that we’d taken over the two days of competition … and selected about twenty “finalists.”
These few, for one reason or another, didn’t make the final cut and so won’t be in the pages of the magazine, but I wanted to go ahead and share them with you here. I do still plan to post more photos from Cuts; needless to say, those won’t be the same ones featured in the magazine. I’m hoping to do this next week, now that the August issue is FINISHED. I hope you enjoy these, and stay tuned for more … both here and in the magazine!
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With the chateau in the background, Dominique Posselle (France), driving a mixed pair to an original-condition dog-cart built in 1899, is heading out on Sunday morning’s cross-country drive …
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Antonio Gutierrez (Spain) brought a traditional Andalusian turnout to the Cuts event. The carriage is a roof-seat break, built by Brewster in 1870. Here, he’s driving up to the third and final judge’s stop in the presentation phase …
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John Brown (Great Britain), shown here on the cross-country-drive phase, drove a pair of Gelderlanders to a demi-mail phaeton built in 1844 …
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This was the first year at Cuts for the Percheron stallions of the local state stud farm at Haras …
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Hugo Livens (Belgium) and his pair of New Forest Ponies, put to a 1905 derby cart, are shown here on the cones course. This turnout won the cross-country and cones phases, and the overall award, in the pair-pony division …
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July 13, 2013
I was in the office earlier (Saturday afternoon), working on the August issue of The Carriage Journal, and I meant to post this photo. And then I forgot.
So here I am, with only about half an hour left on Saturday.
I took this photo on Friday, just outside the side door of our CAA office at the Kentucky Horse Park. It was a picture-perfect day…
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Given the time, I think this post will have to count for both Saturday and Sunday, if you don’t mind.
June 19, 2013
While driving back yesterday from a short visit to Baltimore, A.J. and I stopped for lunch in lovely little Cumberland, Maryland. It was here, beginning in 1818, that travelers heading westward were able to set out on the then-brand-new National Road.
We even found this marker commemorating the road to Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), which is considered the first national highway. (The 1811 on the marker is when construction of the road began.) …
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And here are a few other photos of Cumberland’s old downtown …
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… and, just for fun, a photo of the front window at the shop selling Curtis’s famous Coney-Island hot dogs … since 1918!
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The Slower Road 