Geometry! Not my favorite subject in school but this week Patti has given us the Lens-Artists Challenge of Geometry. When I thought about it I realized that the discipline of Dressage has a lot of geometry in it. The dressage arena is a rectangle : 20 meters by 60 meters. At the lower test levels…
Tag: Changing of the Horse Guards
In Memoriam:Photo a week Challenge.
Nancy Merril Photograhy has given us the challenge of posting a photo that features a memorial. At 10:40 am, on July 20, 1982 as Horse Guards were walking along South Carriage Drive in Hyde Park, on their way to the changing of the Horse Guards, a nail bomb, composed of 25 lbs of gelignite and…
Magic in the Old. Magic in the New.
The trick is to successfully combine the two.
Framing the Shot.
This weeks the Lens-Artists photo challenge is “Framing the Shot” Thanks to Amy for this really interesting challenge. Here are my responses. Sometimes I do not want to show the whole horse but just something that has caught my eye. In this case it is the Canadian flag on the fly bonnet of Jill Irving’s…
A Royal Road.
Weighing 3 tonnes it takes 6 horses to pull it.
All Lined Up!
When things are all lined up there is a feeling of satisfaction in seeing them looking so neat and so ready for some kind of action. Judy Dykstra-Brown at Life Lessons Blog is running a photo challenge from May 27 to June 6 on the topic of ‘all lined up’. Here is my response… Now…
Heritage and History
But then my Aunt pointed out my Uncle Tim riding, in full regalia, behind the Queen!
A Matched Pair
They have stood on guard at the Horse Guards since 1660.
The Horse Guards and the Palace.
The sound of the horses hooves on the pavement.
July 20,1982 Terrorism strikes the Cavalry Blacks
a picture…..and above it a single word: “Bastards”.
The Day I Met a Cavalry Black
I didn’t know him but I knew a lot about him.
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