We at Ross Dhu Equestrian would like to invite you to take a stroll through our life here with our wonderful teachers, the horses.
All photographs are courtesy of Nikki de Kerf a fabulous photographer with an eye for the moment.
As we all travel along life’s journey, we are given the opportunities to learn from very special individuals, not all of them are human and many we will not realise have taught us important lessons until they have passed on through.
It is important to be at one with your environment and at peace with yourself, especially when eating! Brogan is demonstrating that he does in fact have ribs you can see without the aid of an X-Ray machine!
When you are relaxed it takes the weight off your feet. The resident herd and Ross Dhu Equestrian take this quite literally and find every opportunity to chill out on the soft standing.
We find that even those horses that had been retired still need to feel wanted and to have a job. Toby is greatly loved by his mum and all here and even though he had been retired for a year he made it quite clear that his working days were not over, so with a little help from his friend David, Toby is now being brought back into very light work. He eagerly awaits his turn at the long lining and is enjoying every moment.
Showing a flair for work is something, but often it is the most quiet moments that we miss with horses, the times when they are truly themselves and lost in their own thoughts. One such moment was captured early one misty morning as a yearling wanders across the field watched by an audience of swallows.
It is when horses are being horses that we get a special glimpse into their world. What a privalage it is for us here to be able to observe and share such moments daily with our horses. The trust shown by our residents humbles us as they willingly and openly let us into their world. What a great job we have here!
We try as often as we can to take time to reflect on the tiniest details and discover the beauty that we often miss in our hectic lives.
Sometimes all we need to do is look at the world in a slightly different way and it is amazing what we can truly see!
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It is important to be at one with your environment and at peace with yourself, especially when eating! Brogan is demonstrating that he does in fact have ribs you can see without the aid of an X-Ray machine!
We try as often as we can to take time to reflect on the tiniest details and discover the beauty that we often miss in our hectic lives.
Nikki’s pictures are (as usual) stunning and of real great quality, taken with the eye for the moment, like you put it. You can tell that she really loves horses and not only that, she knows how to picture them at the right moment, with the right movements, portraying them magnificently (…hope I didn’t make too many mistakes in typing, since I’m dutch) The pictures on her own website also demonstrate her true qualities as a photographer.
A lovely young lady who I met briefly and what a wonderful eye for photography. Her photoshop skills leave me green with envy too.