About Jennifer
Since early memory Jennifer has been in love with the Arabian Horse, this passion dictated her life path and opened many doors. As a result, she has become a world-renowned breeder of the Arabian horse, photographer, videographer, writer and graphic artist offering her services in not only photography and videography but also web and logo design, along with marketing, promotion and consultant work.
Being an accomplished breeder of The Arabian horse, she has spent her entire life living with and caring for horses, she understands them and is a horse listener with strong advocacy for better horsemanship, believing that they can be the key to understanding ourselves and in turn much more about the world around us. The combination of her passion, education and skills along with the understanding of the horse's form - function and the horse's mind has given her the unique ability to tell a story in writing, and also capture images that portray the horse's spirit, emotion and true beauty.
Jennifer graduated from the Sydney School of Arts in 1975 and worked for Newslimited as a Graphic artist heading the Editorial Art Department until the mid-'80s. With the growth of her and her husband Paul's breeding program (Eagleridge Arabian Farm) she then went on to study Equine form to function and has a degree in Equine Business Management and Equine Nutrition from Hawkesbury Agriculture College (now the University of Western Sydney). Jennifer has a strong passion for the care of the horses' physical health and mind, and as a result offers an equine consultant service specializing in Equine Nutrition, Horse Psychology, Barn Management, Breeding Selections and much more...
Her photos have graced the covers of Studs and Stallions, Tutto Arabi, Desert Heritage, Arabian Horse World Magazine, Arabian Horse Magazine, The Arabian Horse Magazine (UK), and many other publications around the world just to mention a few.
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Horse Psychology & Photoshoots...
Beyond having a natural bond, horses can pick up on and understand human emotions. Studies have demonstrated that horses can recognize a human’s mood by facial expressions and differentiate between anger and happiness. Without training the horses, the study showed 28 horses several pictures of unfamiliar faces, either angry or smiling. Then, they had the people from the images meet the horses, wearing neutral expressions.
In each case, the horses responded negatively to the people presented as angry and positively to those shown as happy. The findings show that not only do horses recognize and react to emotions, but they have a memory for them. They can remember how people presented themselves emotionally and respond accordingly.
Horses are socially intelligent. They are the first non-human mammal known to have the ability to recognize, analyze, respond to and remember human emotions. Not only can horses understand the various moods and facial expressions of humans, but they can also communicate with their own emotions. They often talk with their ears and eyes and show feelings through snorts and whinnies.
Jennifer has found that all horses react to the energy and atmosphere around them, therefor for a successful shoot, the team needs to be relaxed and happy. Stress can make for a very unsuccessful session. Therefore Jennifer always does her best to ensure that the team and the horses are relaxed and happy on any shoot she works on. There is no room for impatience, anger and stress.