Biography

"There are friends and faces that may be forgotten, but there are horses that never will be."
- Andy Adams

My name is Jill Sahner and I have been in love with horses for more than half my life.  I began riding at the age of nine after being captivated by the DreamWorks animated film, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.  Cheesy, I know, but if not for that movie I have absolutely no idea where I would be in life now.  Horses changed me as a person.  They taught me compassion, responsibility.  They taught me that courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to face it.  Most of all, I believe they taught me patience.

I began taking photos of horses around the time I turned eleven.  Despite the fact that my camera was a pathetic 2 mega pixel point-and-shoot, I fell in love with the concept of photography and began learning the ways of the photographic world.  When I was twelve, I not only received my first digital SLR, but also my first horse, Gus.  The two made for an excellent combination, and although today I no longer possess either (Gus is retired, living out his life on an endless supply of grass, and my first camera was stolen out of my bag at an airport) both had incredible impacts on my life.

Although I currently do not own any horses (my third and last horse turned out to be more of a medical expense than show prospect so we recently sold him in April of 2010) my love and passion for both photography and horses lives on.  I train at Red Oak Farm LLC (http://redoakfarmllc.com - I designed the website) and continue to attempt to capture the raw beauty and power of the horse through my photography.

My strongest belief is that in life, everything happens for a reason.

 

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Jill Sahner Photography
Email Me at  jksahner@aol.com
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