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"Deputed Duke" The real stallion. ~~~Some of my reference pics of the real Deputed Duke~~~ Due to Copyright restrictions, I cannot display some of the better photos of Duke out there. Please visit his web site: http://www.spirit-horse.us And a tremendous thanks to Carol and Duke for being so accomodating in such foul weather to give me the reference photos and videos to work from! THANK YOU!!!
	These photos were taken with a camera I do not get along with at all... I was lucky to be able to salvage them through Photoshop. I love this picture and his wiggly lip. It must be a Thoroughbred thing.. I have a son from this stallion and he does the same thing, thinks with his lips. :)
	Now THIS is a STALLION!!! Actually, I love this photo too. Not the best dressage representation, but it certainly is a real, honest to goodness horse being a horse. I wish I hadn't cropped off his ears. He wasn't pinning them, just chewing the bit and trying very hard.
	Such wonderful concentration... there goes that lip again! ;)
	For once I haven't cropped off the ears. They were always back and forth, looking forward and thinking about what the rider was asking.
	I don't know what I was doing wrong with the camera here. It wasn't anything close to dusk.. Thank goodness Carol gave me real photos to use too...!
	Again, listening, listening, listening. Its hard to believe there are clouds of gnats around this horse's head, isn't it!
	Leg yielding at the walk.
	I always seem to click the shutter at the wrong moment.. here he's just been asked for a downward transition I believe.
	With video, at least I can freeze and capture the photos I really need. Of course I did have some issues there as well; bumbling along, I managed to turn the camera OFF every time she asked for some half pass steps. Honestly, she should've just thrown me off of her property then and there. This is from the beginning of the medium trot into half pass that they worked on.
	Oh hey, yes, there is a horse way far away there... More video stills here. The two half pass attempts that I managed to capture close up were both not his best from this day by far... (one is shown in the animation I've used on this site) but as you can see, I'd only gotten the better ones from farther away. One of these (upper left) is another lengthing before starting the half pass. And I believe a couple of the lower ones are leg yields at the walk. I didn't freeze and print every half pass front leg cross over he did. Rather, I would just watch the video, pausing and frame advancing during early work on the sculpture. Ultimately, only his professionally taken photos (and millions of other reference photos) could be used for getting his character and refinement into this sculpture. The videos were too dark and unclear. Hey, so is anyone looking to hire me to do photo shoots of their horses now! lol! Tx again Carol. Love ya Duke! :)

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