The Equestrian Vagabond
Equine Photography and Tales by Merri Melde
About
Merri Melde is a horse photographer, writer, artist, green endurance horse conditioner, spotted owl hooter, wildlife technician, trail builder, carriage driver, sound engineer, world traveler, former racetrack groom, and a rabid, obsessed endurance rider (not all at the same time)...in short, a Professional Vagabond. She hails from the Pacific Northwest and calls herself a Native Seattleite, or sometimes from California, and always the great West in general, and she just happens to own the Most Beautiful Horse on the Planet, Stormy, who just happens to approve of these photographs, many of which he is the subject.
Merri has been behind the lens shooting horses since 1986, from Kentucky to California, Texas to Washington; from Northern Ireland to Germany, Bangkok to Cairo.
Her photos have appeared in:
• The Texas Thoroughbred
• Equus
• The Washington Thoroughbred
• The Horse
• The Blood-Horse
• The California Thoroughbred
• Endurance News
• Trail Blazer
• The Chronicle of the Horse
•• the book Searching for the Perfect Horse by Carolyn Kazmierczak
•• the Danish book Distanceridning en grundbog by Anne Phaff Ussing
Her writing has appeared in
• The Texas Thoroughbred
• Equus
• The Blood-Horse
• Endurance News
• Trail Blazer
• The Chronicle of the Horse
• Modern Arabian Horse
•• the book Straight From the Heart II
•• the book Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover's Soul II
She travels around the world as a photojournalist for www.endurance.net, and she's at work on a photography book about her horse adventures around the world – follow some of her horse travels at http://blog.TheEquestrianVagabond.com .
Merri’s photos have won awards at the Washington Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association art shows, and the Western States Horse Expo, and her writing has won multiple American Horse Publications awards. A collection of her photographs are carried by Judeen's Art Studio and Gallery in Paducah, Kentucky, and she has an extensive compilation of eclectic stock equine photographs. She is available for select assignments.
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