Equine Photography: Field Farm – “Bring Your Horse on Holiday!”
Field Farm – “Bring Your Horse on Holiday”, Alford, Lincolnshire
Field Farm – “Bring Your Horse on Holiday”
Let’s just put it out there, Field Farm is awesome! The facilities for your equine friends are superb. There’s an indoor arena (not that we used it while I was there), show jumping arena, and a fab 1.2 mile cross country course on site. The beach is less than a mile away!
Funny horse faces as they wait to be tacked up – by Kettering Equine Photographer Karl Drage
Having a bit of fuss before going to the beach! By Northants Horse Photographer Karl Drage
There’s a range of cottages, caravans and some brand new glamping pods, the latter being situated alongside the very pretty fishing lake, which guests are allowed to use.
The weather forecast for my daytrip became pretty rubbish overnight. With an actual wedding to shoot on the Friday (!), it was now or never for me, however. The crystal-clear blue skies at Peterborough had given way by the time I got to Boston, and it was grey-grey-grey from there on in.
Beach Ride – Wolla Bank Beach
The rain started mid-morning, and it was pretty grim by the time we met back up with the ponies and riders at Wolla Bank Beach.
For the vast majority of the riders, this was their first ever beach ride. For many of the ponies it was the first time they’d ever seen anything quite like the North Sea! Some were rather unimpressed by the water, in truth, but all loved a good hack along the beach!
Ponies and riders looking slightly bemused by all this water! – by Northamptonshire Equestrian Photographer Karl Drage
Slowly does it, Cassie and Dude gradually become more confident with the water – by Northants Equine Photographer Karl Drage
Even those who didn’t like the water enjoyed a hack in the sand – by Northants Horse Photographer Karl Drage
They were a few areas of standing water on the beach itself, which most of the ponies were more tolerant of. We got some pretty awesome pictures of some of them hurtling towards me. It was just a shame the weather wasn’t a bit kinder….
There were so many amazing shots of this pair! By Northamptonshire Equestrian Photographer Karl Drage
Splishy splash! Tandem riding through a puddle on Wolla Bank Beach – by Northamptonshire Horse Photographer Karl Drage
We had some lunch and a wander around Skegness, and the weather was looking quite a bit better. The girls wanted some pictures in the show jumping arena and on the cross-country course.
Field Farm – Show Jumping Arena
The light was starting to get rather lovely, though a few of the ponies looked rather heavier-legged than they’d been at the start of the day! We still captured some nice pictures of those who could barely raise a leg walking around the arena!
Field Farm – Cross-Country Course
It’s a BIG course, and we were never going to do all of it that evening. We just picked a few obstacles, and those who fancied it went for it!
Despite only having one eye, Trixie always gives her all! – By Northamptonshire Equine Photographer Karl Drage
Dude and his rider are just totally at one with one another – by Kettering Horse Photographer Karl Drage
This is one of those images that works beautifully in both black and white and colour. I just prefer the former – by Northants Equestrian Photographer Karl Drage
The water provided some amazing photo opportunities in the loveliest light imaginable!
Proof that a water shot doesn’t have to be all-action to hit the mark! By Kettering Equestrian Photographer Karl Drage
But water everywhere, great rider reaction shots work brilliantly too! By Northamptonshire Equine Photographer Karl Drage
There was just time to pose in front of the landmarks before it was time to get the horses turned out for the night and me on the road home.
Field Farm even has two great places to have group pictures taken.
As it says in Field Farm’s tagline, “Bring Your Horse on Holiday”! The site has everything you could ever wish for, and everyone loved it. We’re already booked to return in 2022 and can’t wait!
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