Equine Photography and Tales – Welcome to The Equestrian Vagabond Merri Melde

The Equestrian Vagabond

Equine Photography & Tales from around the World
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, theatre techie, world traveler, racetrack groom, and a rabid, obsessed endurance rider - and Tevis Cup finisher! - (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, or perhaps Idaho, 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, in the United States and around the planet. Her photos and stories have appeared in newspapers, websites, books, and magazines around the world.

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
• Equestrian
• Apples N' Oats
• Arabian Horse World
• New Zealand Bulletin
• New Zealand Horse Trader
• Endurance Magazine (South Africa)
• Endurance Insight (Germany)
•• 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
• New Zealand Bulletin
• New Zealand Horse Trader
• Endurance Magazine (South Africa)
•• the book Straight From the Heart II
•• the book Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover's Soul II

Photography Collection:
Judeen's Art Studio & Gallery - Paducah, Kentucky
Wild West Cafe & Espresso - Eagle, Idaho

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://theequestrianvagabond.blogspot.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 is carried by Judeen's Art Studio and Gallery in Paducah, Kentucky, and by the Wild West Cafe and Espresso in Eagle, Idaho, and she has an extensive compilation of eclectic stock equine photographs. She is available for select assignments.

Current exhibitions of The Equestrian Vagabond's photography:

Judeen's Art Studio & Gallery - Paducah, Kentucky
Wild West Bakery & Espresso - Eagle, Idaho

For rates, prices, fan mail for Stormy, or further information, contact:

The Equestrian Vagabond

Merri Melde

mer @ TheEquestrianVagabond.com