Pictured right: Huckleberry Bey.This was my first shoot with Sheila and a very important session for my then early career. I was a bit intimidated. Sheila was gracious and welcoming, however, and looking for new images of Huckleberry Bey.This shoot ended up with one of the classic all-time action shots of Huck and the one that was used to make his Breyer® statue.
From photographer and friend, Scott Trees
Sheila’s great broodmares … and a difficult shot in terms of getting them all to look with their ears up at the same moment. In a final desperate effort, I had a tractor with a bucket raised high with a large tarp flapping come flying around the corner of the barn.This briefly startled the mares, they all looked up, I got my shot, and right after I took it, they broke position, but I had what I wanted. Sheila gave me some important career enhancing opportunities to photograph some exceptional horses and was instrumental in helping my career move forward and grow. I was always forever grateful to her for those opportunities, and more importantly, for her friendship. She was a talented horsewoman, one of the true exceptional breeders in the Arabian horse industry, and she will be greatly missed by many. ~ S cott Trees
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