I know, I know, my last two posts have been livestock photos. But it’s fair season; I can’t really help it. I’m going to post the non-animal photos from the fair in the next couple of days (:
Anyway.
I probably would have photographed this event even if I weren’t covering the fair for the paper. Draft horses are some of the most awesome creatures on earth, as far as I’m concerned. I think this is because I have an idea in my head of what a horse should be—what its proportions are, how big it is, etc, etc—and every time I see a draft horse in person it just blows this concept right out of the water. Every time! You’d think I would have altered the preconception to include draft horses, but I guess things don’t work like that.
On that note, here are some images from the draft horse pull yesterday afternoon. I left when the teams’ load got up to 8800 pounds (EIGHTY EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS! Unreal).
