Why thank you everyone!
Yes we had a fun day out.
Spoiler
to cut down the clutter.
Jinxxy, yes he's Belle's horse and seems to be a Costco exclusive mold. When I brought him home from the thrift store he was really freaked out (you could see it in his eyes) and it took a few days of snuggling to calm him down. One day I left him under the blankets when I went to work and he was freaked out for two days afterwards. It's amazing how a hard plastic horse can express emotions! He's one of my most favoritest ponies.
On this photo shoot it was a bit adventurous. At one house where I was shooting from the sidewalk some pre-teen girls came out and wanted him and when I said no, they demanded to know why I was taking pictures. I ran away; they were scary! On the wall where I was experimenting with shooting with the sun behind him, a guy walking by wondered if I had brought him there or if I had just happened across him on the wall. Oddly, no one even looked at the bank...I guess people must take pictures of their ponies there every day or something. No one looked twice on the train either...go figure. I got a lot more looks in Yosemite Valley last summer posing Sorbet and Fire Chief. Here's a link to Yosemite pics: http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,379774.msg1551448.html#msg1551448
These represent less than half the pics I took with Philippe that day. On the wall in particular I tried all sorts of different sun angles and I enjoyed the way the sun directly behind him makes his hair glow. It's fun to play with different light angles and of course the mixed black light experiment in the last frame was a particularly challenging.