August | 2013 | Tricia Booker Photography

USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship

August 28, 2013 by Tricia Booker Photography

One of my favorite assignments of the year is the United States Hunter Jumper Association International Hunter Derby Championships, held each August at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. This year I had the pleasure of watching close friends take the victory. Liza Towell Boyd and Brunello, a 15-year-old Hanoverian gelding, performed beautifully over two challenging Derby courses to win the most prestigious hunter competition of the year. I met Liza and her family back in 1991, when she won […]

Categories: Horse Shows, Horses, Photography, Sports • Tags: artistic, Brunello, horse, horse show, Hunter Derby Championship, Kentucky, Lexington, Liza Boyd, Nikon D800E, photography, USHJA

Special Delivery

August 27, 2013 by Tricia Booker Photography

I had a surprise delivery of flowers this morning, and the card brought tears to my eyes: “Words cannot express how thankful we are for you finding Slider. He is doing very well at home. Love, The Alvarez Family.” Last Thursday I let Peppermint out one final time before bed and returned to the front door to find two dogs waiting on the porch. I quickly realized the little brown-and-white terrier didn’t have a collar and seemed scared, so I scooped […]

Categories: Birds, Nature, Photography • Tags: bird, black swallowtail, butterfly, flower, Nikon D800E, photography, ruby throated hummingbird, Virginia

A Lesson Learned: Nikon D800 For Sports

August 25, 2013 by Tricia Booker Photography

After spending the summer shooting more than 12,000 images for work and play, I realized that for 90 percent of those photographs I reached for the Nikon D800 (I have the E version) over my tried and true D3s. I purchased the D800 earlier in the year to primarily be my landscape and nature camera. Like many people, I’d read countless reviews about the camera before buying it, how its 36 megapixel sensor would need the best glass and the […]

Categories: Soccer, Sports • Tags: Clarke County Crew, FASA Elite Hotspurs, Fredericksburg, Nikon D800E, photography, soccer, sports, Virginia

Cathedral Falls

August 13, 2013 by Tricia Booker Photography

Another trip on the Midland Trail National Scenic Highway today through West Virginia, and, unfortunately, once again I traveled across this scenic route mostly in the rain. It’s still my preferred route from Virginia to Kentucky, and although I didn’t have as many photo ops, I enjoyed taking the scenic drive and not the monotonous I-64. I happened to be in between storms when I passed through Gauley Bridge, so I stopped by my favorite waterfall, Cathedral Falls, which was […]

Categories: Photography, Travel • Tags: Cathedral Falls, Midland Trail, photography, Sony RX100, waterfall, West Virginia

A Whirlwind Summer

August 10, 2013 by Tricia Booker Photography

It’s hard to believe we’re in the last days of summer. If I think back to all of the adventures, activities, travels, work and fun we had, it seems like so much packed into just a few short months. But, then, when I pull up my blog I realize how little translated to my digital world. The truth of the matter is there’s only so much time in the day. Time to spend with family and friends. Time for work. […]

Categories: Birds • Tags: artistic, bird, green, hummingbird, nature, Nikon D800E, photography, summer

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