Peter DeMott Photography

Snow day pictures in Dayton, Ohio: horses, snow and people, how fun!

My wife, Patty is a teacher at Miamisburg city schools. There is nothing more fun than a snow day and today would certainly have been one, except for the fact that they already had the day off for presidents day.

Riding horses in snow is great fun and with the snow coming down throughout the day Patty could not wait for the snow to stop to get out and ride. Patty does endurance rides and competitive trail rides in the summer and this was a great opportunity to exercise her horses. The snow was so deep that it was like riding through deep sand. However before she could ride, she thought it was wise to lunge the horses. They were very excited about all the snow coming down as you will see in the pictures.

horse being lunged in snow

As you can see the snow was quite deep. The next image shows Merlot putting his nose down in the snow as he continued around Patty.

Lunging horse in snow

Patty laughs as Merlot’s nose is covered with snow.

Lunging horse in snow

Below is Cocoa being lunged before his ride. I was too exhausted from clearing the snow from the driveway to trudge out to the pasture to take pictures of them riding, plus the snow was coming down so hard that my camera would have been soaked in no time. Now it is official. Another SNOW DAY with school canceled for tomorrow. More fun in the snow, more riding horses in the snow, how fun is that? Our neighbor was nice enough to run his tractor mounted snow blower up our drive earlier, but I was the one who had to dig a path to where we dump our manure so that the horses could have nice fresh new bedding after their ride in the deep snow of the 2010 winter here in Dayton, Ohio. The snow has not quit and it is now dark.

Lunging horse in snow before a fun ride in the snow

Cocoa is such a good boy. He gets a pat on the head before headed out for a ride with Patty.

Horse gets rewarded for doing well when being lunged in snow

With all the snow, now our third major snow fall in the last couple of weeks, I’ve listed several posts about taking better pictures in snow. You can find them linked to my home page on this web site: http://www.photosbypdemott.com This post will appear on my notes page on my facebook personal page. It will also appear on my wall on my photography business fan page on facebook and it will be tweeted on my twitter account. Please feel free to follow me in any of these locations.

Related posts:

  1. SNOW, SNOW, SNOW…taking better pictures in snow
  2. Senior Portraits in Snow, Horse and Rider Portraits in Snow & Family and Kids in Snow
  3. Taking better Snow pictures
  4. Muddy Horses in Ohio and Senior portraits and equine portraits in Spring
  5. Taking better winter & snow portraits (follow up)

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