Photo via Jade Cooling
Raise your hand if you want a new EN series. Annie, put your hand down. Last week I mistakenly posted a photo taken and owned by the wonderful eventing photographer Amy Dragoo. EN readers will remember that we wrote about Amy and her business as part of the True Prospect Farm recovery for donating a portion of her proceeds to the recovery. Our policy on Eventing Nation is to never use photos by eventing photographers without their permission, and I simply screwed up. This is especially dumb since we have thousands of fantastic rider photos from Samantha and tens of thousands of terrible photos from me in the EN archives. Photographers own their work and it’s not enough for us to correct mistakes and apologize once they are made, so we are revising our policy to be more proactive.
We love eventing photographers here on Eventing Nation. We stand out in the scorching sun and sleeting rain together covering events and I’m glad to consider many of the east coast and national photographers friends. Making a living as an eventing photographer is incredibly hard, and we have enjoyed promoting the websites and businesses of numerous photographers over the years. As part of some cross-occupational love, we’d like to open that process to all professional and semi-professional eventing photographers in a way that will be fun and educational for all of us. For once we’ll try to use the reach of Eventing Nation to do something more than make fun of Coren. So, here’s the new series, and it is open to all professional and semi-professional photographers:
Fill out the short form below and please send it along with any other special requests with the subject line “Eventing Photographer Series” to [email protected].
1) Include the following in the email–
a) Your name:
b) The name of your business:
c) The geographical area where you generally photograph:
d) Years of experience as a photographer:
e) Why you decided to become a photographer:
f) A short funny/interesting/ridiculous story about an experience you have had while photographing at an event:
g) One piece of advice, whether technical or general for a developing photographer:
h) Links to your website, blog, Facebook, etc.:
2) Send either a .jpeg or a link to several of your photos that you would like to be featured and include a description of the photos. To make sure that the photos are protected, they can be watermarked as much as you like and we will only publish them once and only in the post promoting your business.
The better the stories and photos, the more likely it is that we will publish your profile.
Also, we get emails from time to time about readers wondering what photographers are at which events. So, if you are selling photographs from an event and want us to include your website along with our score links, please just shoot us an email to [email protected] when the photos are posted.
Go eventing.
