Are you one of those hobbiests that remember the 'good old days' where Photo Showing consisted of sticking your horse in your back yard and snapping it's picture then sending it on its merry way, with no thoughts to knee high grass, blurred images, dark images, or wrong genders/breeds?

Or maybe you're a new hobbiest that has no idea what people are talking about when they say things like that. Or maybe you're a younger person who has no idea what it's like to have to take pictures without a preview and actually have to pay to have film developed without seeing if your pictures came out first.

Today, photo shows are competitive, with digital cameras, photo editing software, printers to print off pictures at home after you've cleaned them up. A lot of people are showing a lot of near perfect photos, though no one can agree on whether realistic is better than clear and undistracting, everyone agrees your photos need to be clear and crisp, horse in plain sight, everything in scale...

But the old days of showing weren't ALL bad..those were the days of the anything goes classes, the cheap tack/creative setups made out of out of scale objects, horses with big hair and big attitudes. Pictures that went to extremes to make horses look 'real', including sticking the outside with the neck high grass and monster dandelions. The days where color genetics weren't well known, breed types weren't that well researched, and the imagination was your only limit.

So take a look at Photo Showing's history, wander though the galleries, and have a great time looking. If you would like to submit vintage photos (or even newer attempts by an amateur photographer), please email me with the subject line "Photo Show Museum entry" and attach your photos. Please do not send pictures larger than 350 pixels in either direction. Please also indicate which gallery you think they should be in, but don't get mad if I feel like they fit somewhere else and put them in a different one. Please remember by submitting pictures you are giving me the right to display them on this website. You may put a non-distracting watermark on the photo, and all photos will be credited to their owner. You can also give a brief summary of what you did with the picture (if you won with it/showed with it), or details on the setting/model, or whatever you'd like to say about it. Also a date if you can remember when it was taken.

You can also send photos through snail mail to: Samantha Kroese, 15005 Blackfoot Road, Apple Valley, CA 92307 I will scan them for you and put them in the galleries, but please include a SASE if you want them returned.

For now this museum is just starting, and the galleries are rather sparse, but I hope that people will contribute and make this a part of Model Horse history.

Last Updated October 23, 2006

The Galleries at the Model Horse Photo Showing Museum:

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