Photography 101 To Flash or Not (NOT!!!!)

I've no photos to attach to this post, but I think it's a very important message to relay regardless.

I look forward to Spring and Hunter/and new adventures: Jumper and Dressage competitions because they're outside. For my "Up and Coming Photographer" friends (Janie and Tia and Tayloe...you ride so you know) and for family and friends of riders who use a flash when attending indoor shows or events, and I've seen you do it, do us all a great favor: Please don't. Maybe your daughter or son's mount has become acclimated to the flash, other horses and ponies have not. You never know how a participant's best friend will react.

As much as I would love to flash indoors (and this is part of being a professional equestrian photographer and how I make a living), if I don't do it...you shouldn't either...it's not worth the potential consequences. Get it? Got it? Good!

All the best,

Susan and Aladdin (who was spooked when my cell phone light went on and he's still acting "iffy" a week later)