Hello again everyone!

This time I'll be publishing a couple of pictures from the past, and not so distant past.

In the first one Leo rides for the first time when a father of his kindergarten friend invited Leo to join a horse safari for kids. I tagged along and shot some photos...

Utter fun!

Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: EF-S18-55mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 III
Focal length: 18 mm
Aperture: ƒ/4.5
Exposure:  1/400 s
ISO: 200

Some years later, in last Spring, Vera sent him to a horse riding camp, where he learned to take care of horses and ride by himself. There were also a lot of farm animals like a pig, sheep and goats, bunch of hen and two or three roosters, domesticated doves and of course a lot of ponies and horses. It was pretty much everything a kid could wish for.

He loved it!

...although you can't really see it in the picture. ;)

Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: Sigma ART 50 mm ƒ/1.4
Aperture: ƒ/4
Exposure:  1/200 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+200

But he was really energized and happy after the camp.

I was personally quite interested at how they treated Leo. He seemed to get the most out of the whole camp. It was like they were directing him personally with all the important stuff, and all the other "students" (who all happened to be girls) seemed to get the remains.

But I do get it, in a way. In a way it makes sense that a sport or hobby that is mostly female, would feel the need for some boys to join too. It's natural to hope the other sex would get interested in what you do. (But I know some feminists would gladly invent a slew of other reasons. "Oppression", "patriarchy" and so on...)

All that doesn't matter though. Leo liked horse riding, and that's what does matter.

I'm thinking, he might want to attend one of these camps again some day.

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