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Surefire report from photographer Lindsay Berreth

You know when you are walking (or riding) around an event and you notice the photographers standing there all day with those huge cameras?  Well, as part of our ongoing interest in showcasing the many fascinating roles in the eventing community, it is my pleasure to bring you the perspective of a photographer from Surefire horse trials this weekend.  Thanks Lindsay for writing this and thank you for reading.  Link: Surefire results
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From Lindsay:

For those who don't know me, I event in Area II and attend most events as a rider. But I also work for GRC Photo, who shoots many events in Virginia and Maryland. I love photographing eventing, even if it's just beginner novice, because it can be so educational to see how each horse and rider handles a question. And as a rider, I know how I feel when I see that "perfect shot"; the one that captures a great cross country round or that first clear training level stadium course on a horse you've brought along yourself.

So, this weekend, I was free lancing at Surefire. And it was hot! Upper 90's with high humidity. But I guess that's what you get for eventing in June in Virginia. I was stationed at the water jump for the first level to go on Saturday, which was Intermediate. I heard through the grapevine that the course was a bit soft, but that's probably a good thing since we haven't had a good rain for awhile and the ground was a bit hard.  But the Surefire crew did a great job getting it ready aerating it and adding stone dust and gravel when needed The water jump had a nice bright blue color, something I haven't seen much of at events in Virginia and Maryland, so that might have contributed to some issues, but overall, the intermediates rode the water nicely. From my vantage point, I could also see the bank, which had a huge drop to a skinny. 

Novice was next for the afternoon, and I had to move from my comfortable, shady spot by the water to the middle of Surefire's beautiful rolling hills to shoot the beginning of the course. The views were breathtaking, but I was baking out there! Lucky for me I had my handy lawn chair with a roof on it that provided some relief. I got some great shots over fence three in particular, a nice coop/ramp jump which came after a nice gallop from fence two. It rode well and everyone was nice and forward over it.

By the time novice was about half-way through, the jumping phases were running over an hour late, so I heard (via announcer Brian O'Connor) that the beginner novice stadium was shortened and that a division of BN would run cross country first to make up the time. Somehow, the event only ended up running a half hour late, so kudos to everyone for making it happen!

Sunday morning, I started out shooting prelim. They had a roll-top to a drop in, to a cabin out. It rode very well and I got some pretty great photos in the morning light. Brian O'Connor announced that horses were finishing well despite the rapidly rising temperatures, and there was a cooling station on hand at the end of the course, which I'm sure was appreciated.

Luckily, I stayed at the water jump all day and had some shade. The training was interesting. They had a roll-top, down a slight hill to a bank into water, then out over a log. About 60% of the riders actually cantered through the water first, then presented to the combination, and most were successful. I'm not sure if it was the blue water or the bank, but there was a quite a bit of trouble.

Overall, I saw a lot of really good riding. We all survived the heat, and the Surefire crew was great, even offering me some food, drink and a ride on the Gator. That was much appreciated considering I wasn't an official volunteer. Eventers are such friendly people, looking out for each other even on the hottest of days.

Now I'm looking forward to taking my OTTB to school there this week. Then on to the Maryland Horse Trials to sweat some more!

Thanks,

Lindsay Berreth

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Can you please post the link to Lindsay's site when proofs are ready? I rode at Surefire and would like to see what she got pics of.

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I watched a lot of the Prelim riders go through the water, and I thought it rode terribly. Lots of stops, lots of horses very apprehensive about the water. The footing at the in wasn't helping, either.

It seemed like the horses that did it well were launching into the water, unseating a lot of riders. I definitely look forward to seeing the photos...especially of the girl whose air vest (a competing brand to Point Two) did not deploy when she took a bath!

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I didn't see too many falls in the water at prelim. There were at least three falls and many eliminations at training. Compared to the training, I thought the prelim line was better and because it had the log on top of the bank, I thought it gave the horses something to look at and jump up and over.

Many of the training youngsters who launched off the bank ended up losing their footing, so I saw a lot of close calls and got lots of splash photos! But those who stepped off the bank landed in a better balance and didn't seem to trip or stumble on landing.

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I was working for Red Horse. The website is www.redhorseimages.com. I got photos of everyone at the water for int/prelim/training. I was at the white logs for BN and for novice I got fences 2, 3, 5 and 6. The other photogs got stadium and the bank for int/prelim. Not sure where they were exactly for BN/N.

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Yes, there was just one fall that I saw at the Prelim water, but many, many riders who almost did (what I meant by unseated). There were some good recoveries and one-stirruped jumps over the last element.

The log for Prelim helped the bold horses but tripped up the timid ones. When they scramble and hang legs, that is not fun.

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Yeah, I agree. I guess I was just comparing it to the training. The jump judge and I were crossing our fingers for each training rider that came through! It was an entertaining afternoon.


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1. adhere to watch CCTV-1 news network.
order to grasp the economic lifeline, must be concerned about political, News Network illustrated, colorful, indeed, the best barometer for Chinese businessmen; you can not see the financial report, you can not see the Focus, if you do not do oil and foreign exchange , and even you can never mind a similar situation in the Middle East and September 11.
2. Do not believe the contract or contracts
even let your lawyer read the contract, the Notary Public of all Do not believe that even When your client has the money to import the account you specify after you have to confirm that the money you can not come up to, can not move beyond the contract involves a conflict of interest and interpretation of any verbal promises when you have to be He is a fart, or both fragrant smell, the other promises in the past are not to wallow in them, but no matter who the other side, even if that is what you pay for a decade and your friends or even a woman on the bed must be so
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3. you must be trustworthy, a promise extremely heavy, but who are not trustworthy exception!!
you are sure you will be able to do things you can promise, but not exaggerated; you if you want to have to be a businessman, you must establish your own credibility! Although you can not care about the outside of your dispute or you can create controversy, but you can not lose credibility, or you are not a businessman but a liar; credibility if you specifically include and others about the 2:00 meeting, then you must not appear after 2:01 or 1:50 before, in case of traffic jams or accidents, you must promptly notify the other party, unless you had an accident does not encounter the crash coma wake up or have died, or you no reason to miss it too early or late morning till late, and your conservation is reflected in the treatment when they do not keep the attitude of broken promises and tolerance, etc.; and once you confirm the other party is interests in order to deceive you again, you make all acts of the other party is not over, even you can count on the meter, turn to him to draw a pie!
4. you can win but you can not afford to lose from do not do business the best!
before doing any business, you have to think clearly, if you lose, then you are able to lose, rather than to consider what would happen if you win what do you afford to lose better not to do! but when you consider the range of input should not only consider the money aspect, as half of the business, some things you will never afford to lose, including the woman you love, your family, even your status to your reputation; so you have to do any business in full consideration before a clear loser you really afford to lose, if the loser, then OK, you go threw it DO IT!
5. Do not put too much in advance, to
cards yourself enough not to their own hands all the cards all the light out, because Board at any stop in the middle, while the other is at any time a new card, not the last critical moment, it is best not to show your hand the most weighty of cards, the ultimate winner is the real winner!
6. the world is not nothing, but traders also have to do certain things
good rather than not to, not to small evil to succeed, Also in China, contrary to the law of things you can do, but contrary to the moral thing to do is determined not 7.
careful selection of partners, whether team or individual, we are eager to have a lot of time with us together to conquer the world gold partner, but is a close ally must be careful selection of the very prudent, cautious is not only for each other in terms of unilateral, and a close ally must meet the following prerequisites before they can become your closest ally; First, He and you will need to fight together in a trench had at least one year; Second, you do not have a negative premise of his his every word you say he can be responsible; Third, he must be an honest and Officer who can be free from anxiety; Fourth, he was considered more of a common interest between you (either short or long term), and this common interest above personal interests; the five critical moment he did not escape We also did not sell you or cooperate in his interests to get bigger than the greater good of the premise, five points are indispensable, otherwise the cooperation between each other will not last long.
8. not in your team the shadow of your family members have
whether your wife or your parents, not in one of the core to your business as there are too many teams to intervene, because to you, as one of the core team to accept you, instead of your family members, all members of your team to accept the initiative and invite your family members to become your team a past, no matter who your family members, how much skill, or you can bring much to your team forward to help, you can not be your family members into the team a reason; and when you team (three or more) members of the opposite sex once in on the bed with you, then you must consider the other side immediately leave the team, or her (him) to find another job, or her (him) to be your full-time lover or wife (husband), in short, she (he) can no longer remain in the team, so the team will not just go to bed or emotional considerations and the opposite sex.
9. Do not you have a conflict of interest with a woman who go to bed
account regardless of who's cheap, or you can parallel between the two kinds of relationships, should not be with go to bed, but no matter how sexy this woman, more sensational; such women include: Do you have business dealings with a woman, a woman working in your hands or your hands with colleagues, families, and even manage your government agencies, functions in the female civil servants, for two reasons: First, such a woman can make you die do not know how to die, and the second half though you are a businessman, not the other half of the prostitutes sell their bodies. 10. Do not give your woman the details about your business
whether this woman is that you pack up the prostitutes, mistresses, lover or do you among a large number of more or your wife have been married for many years, you are and they should not talk about the details of your business: First, you talk about the possibility that they do not know; second, you talk about the details of which will make your business the contents of imprisonment; third, it involves trade secrets; No matter how much you trust your woman, and you should not talk too much about the commercial content; there is a need not separate the business rules is, never in a karaoke nightclub and other sex establishments should be recruited to the lady fat girl card, be sure to write live!
11. you can do but do not stain bribe witnesses to court to prove
matter how accepting you are shameless bribery of officials, how meaning is not enough, you can only do the stain can not bribe a witness to the court evidence ; unless you want to do after not even half a businessman; and if you take the initiative to bribery, acceptance of each other but also for you to do the things that you also should not come as a result able to seize the evidence to blackmail the other side the other pigtail continue to give the green light for you against the wind, and whether other public officials or law enforcement officers or bank officials and even the staff of; basic, sauna and even dinners to eat a large tour to Macau, do not these feelings are put into separate accounts in mind black, The handle on the financial book certainly either trace.
12. Do not tax evasion, tax avoidance, but to learn the bulk of the small end of a reasonable best distinguished from the invoice, sales tax and additional education funds to pay how much to pay you the amount of value-added Do not tax you more to move the brain (remember to find a home on the stamps can be a normal deduction), in addition to weigh their duty to weigh the weight of you, to treat specific conditions, all to avoid corporate income tax is not out a penny pay, but the best face to the point of land tax, less the intersection do not pay a penny, to pay more pay less you own choice, and personal income tax it, depending on the local government to the taxpayers how much do we pay taxes whether the practical When people really think the taxpayers who made the specific circumstances of the payroll it.
13. You can use the news reporters but do not believe you can give Correspondent Correspondent
some money or gifts, but you can not tell you a lot of reporters bottom line can not believe that reporters will give you a more conservative trade secrets, and even you can not and reporters are too close and must learn to face the reporters and fortification, no matter whether you are faced with the flair of a beautiful female reporter was able to send internal reference of the biggest names in the reporters so.
14. Do not put large, even if you really are the boss
remember there is day, do not put any big occasion, even if you are really big, and when the other is a big place, and shallow people, if you want to exterminate him, then just find the best pieces of brick hit him a somersault, and then you go your way! But remember, this is definitely not your own brick brick, brick, and the best and nothing to you.
15 remain neutral, not involved in any political faction factional strife strife
front should remain neutral, especially in the face of political factional strife, proved the commercial interests of a factional dispute in the hopes that any one may are dangerous and unwise, in the factional strife between, you have to cool neutral.
16. Do not worry so much about money and the interest income on the pros and cons
remember there has been lost, but there is some loss from the old saying, no money can be earned, the natural world is something you earn money and endless business opportunities, so why not in front of generosity in money and interest to do so? Moreover, greater business opportunities are waiting for you go to grasp it? basically you should not care about short-time gains and losses fishes, even if you have plenty of time to enjoy tea color.
17. Do not gloss over too much money though their
face is very important for you But compared to your own personal charm, there are no cars, villas with swimming pool, golf, and your clothes, hairstyle and even these will seem insignificant; course, you can wear your favorite pair of 'inline l shoes, and even fly in a time when a foreign country to see your favorite team's home or away games, but even a lot of people in front of you pumping your own favorite low-quality smoked cigarettes!
18. Capital decided to speak but you should not easily let people know how much you care about what you say
the capital belongs to you and you can control the capital is correct, you should even care about, including you bad debt and cash earnings and cash flow, but these should not let too many people know; and when you get outside of a tremendous wealth, you should learn the news Do not tell others, including trouble for a long time already, and you wife, or she may request a divorce and this is not a small split your assets! Remember, the money men and women should always belong to the same age a secret, which Payouyitian even have a woman's age is not a secret, when your money should still secret; unless you are dying all the time about to donate your family's wealth, you must not tell anyone!
19. draw on the success or failure, but the case abroad, you can ignore the Do not envy other people's success, not failure of contempt of others, you first should do is learn to analyze and summarize the essence behind the phenomenon, the success or failure of others to find out all the reasons, whichever is longer, make it short, make your own to do things; and abroad such as those similar to the Microsoft story, too far away from you, you could never mind him, so a certain sense, the current MBA to do business in China and you do not have much practical significance in terms of ! 20. Do not use black and white road rules to solve commercial conflicts
business is always business, but business is business rules of the game itself, so even if you really are underworld characters, can not just use the rules to the underworld resolve commercial conflicts, the same, will you have a good background and white and resources, you can not easily use these resources to solve the conflict in your business! having chosen merchant, you must comply with all rules of the game in business, is willing to bet you have to admit defeat!
21. can grasp the overall situation in the premise, do not pursue their own hands
not to engage in no time with friends, but do not let a woman he did not have time to bubble and the INTERNET, the most important thing is not no time to relax and allow yourself to think, so you should learn to let go and others dot the business, dealing with business, though, the core of the business you must have a firm grasp; Similarly, the risk of things you do to others to think clearly and be able to prevent, so you do things over to someone else after you became a busy fire-fighting team, remember the fire and the fire is different, the fire's slogan is Lord Give yourself a part of your own posterior, posterior, including hide a piggy bank, although there is only a few dollars, but your future is to rely on it a few dollars to make a comeback; posterior also includes a legal sense, not in the house under your name (you can have a healing place, to recover), but also includes a travel but not often and you are generous attempts to help him a lot of friends (who can shelter you at a critical time, to accompany your drink, and such a friend you can face a lifetime has also been very lucky); if there is no way out, then you must have to sleep on the streets begging on the streets of mental preparation, but then you can only destination strangers hand, but never to help you in the past had also owes a lot of debt or favor, but you do not know your equipment.

sheep of the rich the poor wolf (businessman reading)


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