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Ali Ghoorchian (Iran)
The Central Alborz mountains; the perfect place to train horses to be a war horse! With the Persian Horseback Archery Center.
Rider and horse: Anna Minkkinen from Finland on Gustaw, pure Arabian stallion
OLYMPUS Tough, 4x WIDE OPTICAL ZOOM 4.5-18mm
Anders O Jönsson (Sweden)
Frida at the Swedish National Knights Tournament at Hovdala May 2016, riding Imnir. Imnir is an Icelandic horse of our own breeding, Frida's "own" horse.
Rider and horse: Frida Möllerberg on Imnir
Nikon D5100, Nikkor 70-300mm, 1/800s, f7.1, ISO:400
Anders O Jönsson (Sweden)
Kalle at the 2016 Grand Prix stage at Andrea Seidel's place in Mohorn, Germany
Rider: Kalle Möllerberg
Nikon D5100, Nikkor 70-300mm, 1/800s, f5.6, ISO:400
Steven Cassidy (Ireland)
Concentrate - Its freezing, early april and Barbara is riding down her lane on Rocky, a 14h2, 29 year old, half arab.
Rider and horse: Barbara Guthrie on Rocky
Canon 1ds mkIII, Canon 70-200mm 2.8, 140mm, 1/800s, f2.8, ISO:400
Anders O Jönsson (Sweden)
Photo taken of the arrow stand at the competition at Poznan (Poland), Sep 2016. With Radek in the background.
Nikon D5100, Nikkor 70-300mm, 1/400s, f5, ISO:200
Ali Ghoorchian (Iran)
Late afternoon training at the Persian Horseback Archery Center.
Rider and horse: Marjut Siro from Finland on Giv, pure Arabian stallion
OLYMPUS Tough, 4x WIDE OPTICAL ZOOM 4.5-18mm
Vicky Kramer (USA)
Samurai Spirit - Wild Wild West International Competition, Arizona
Rider and horse: Hiroo Matsuda on Rowdy
Canon Rebel T5i - Lens 18-35mm, 1/1250s, f5, ISO:160
Cécile Bredeaux (France)
Sagitta Ultima - We took the picture on a bright and sunny day, the only problem was the mosquitos !
Rider and horse: Sophie Dubreil and Ultramar
Canon 6D, 24-105 mm lens, 1/1000s, f/7.1, ISO:3200
Anders O Jönsson (Sweden)
Hilary competing in Germany
Rider: Hilary Merrill, USA
Nikon D5100, Nikkor 70-300mm, 1/640s, f6.3, ISO:400
Ylwa Woxmark (Sweden)
Focus - The picture is from the Swedish Nationals in horseback archery 2016 and for once Mats is allowed to ride his wife's horse! This is the horse he also has his best scores on.
Technical information about the image: Canon EOS 5D/Canon EF100mm/1:2500/11/ISO 3200
Rider and horse: Mats Woxmark and Arabian horse "Jeenial ox"
Canon EOS 5D, Canon EF 100mm, 1/2500s, f11, ISO:3200
Marc Dumora (France)
I'm a photograher. I took this photo at la Fête du cheval held at the Racecourse in Bouscat, Gironde in France.
Rider: John Batta
A99 Sony, 50mm, 1/1000s, f4.5, IS0:800
Anders O Jönsson (Sweden)
Kalle at the 2016 Grand Prix stage at Andrea Seidel's place in Mohorn, Germany
Rider: Kalle Möllerberg
Nikon D5100, Nikkor 70-300mm, 1/1000s, f8, ISO:400
Dominique Calton (UK)
Sunset shooting - This was taken a week or so after myself, Ros and the ponies had first started horseback archery. We were still only at the point of walking to inline with the target & then halting to shoot, but fortunately Monkey took to it really well. I had to take advantage of the wonderful winter sunset in this shot! :)
Rider & Horse; Ros Jones & Kirtle Monkey Puzzle
FujiFilm FinePix S9900W Bridge, 1/800s, F3.2, IS0 1600
Cécile Bredeaux (France)
Back to Hunt - Quewy is quite a nice but lazy pony : he does his best especially when a camera is around !
Rider and horse: Sophie Dubreil on Quewy
Canon 6D, 24-105 mm lens, 1/640s, f/4, ISO:200