Perth Royal Show 2014: Horsepower
One of the most fun parts of the Perth Royal show is the fireworks and the show they have before the fireworks, Horsepower.
So here we are waiting for the show. John knows his wife turns into a 5 year old at this stage.
I don’t care. I just get even more giddy and excited.
This year, though, before the Horsepower presentation, we got to have a photo shoot of all the riders before the show. The reason for that was because of this photo John took last year HERE. One of the riders saw it, liked it, and wanted to buy prints. We delivered the prints, got to know all the nice people in the group, and they invited us to take a group photo.
It was rather a special moment and some of the most still group of people I’ve ever had the pleasure of photographing.
It was hard to get them all in one shot in a line up of with their horses, so we relied on the stitching process later.
Back to the show. Horsepower puts on a great presentation relating how important the horse has been in Western Australia.
Horsepower is an exhilarating display of horsemanship.
It’s amazing to see before the lights go down and fireworks, attached to the horses, burst into a blaze of glorious technicolor.
The end of the evening was made extra sweet when the announcer asked everyone in the area to turn their cell photos to flash light (or should I say torch) mode as a tribute to the group. Um, I didn’t know how to do that. Two weeks later, I now do. (Thanks, James).
