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Choosing the right bit and bridle is a vital part of creating a partnership with your horse. This book explains everything you need to know about a complicated subject in easy-to-understand text and with specially taken photographs. It looks at: different types of bit and how to fit them correctly; mouthpiece and cheekpiece designs and how they work; traditional and modern material and how to choose the right combination for your horse; which type of noseband to use; and how to fit a bridle correctly. The book contains advice on a huge range of subjects, from solving problems to bitting young horses, and emphasises that choosing tack must always go hand in hand with correct management handling and schooling.
Brief, concise, and filled with helpful photos, this introductory guide provides essential information on horse harnessing.
The Shiatsu treatments illustrated in this book will enable any dog owner to give their animal a complete body treatment that will relax, improve circulation, and relieve strains and stiffness. Shiatsu builds mutual confidence and communication and is of particular benefit to the older dog.
The tenth edition of The Manual of Photography is an indispensable textbook for anyone who is serious about photography. It is ideal if you want to gain insight into the underlying scientific principles of photography and digital imaging, whether you are a professional photographer, lab technician, researcher or student in the field, or simply an enthusiastic amateur. This comprehensive guide takes you from capture to output in both digital and film media, with sections on lens use, darkroom techniques, digital cameras and scanners, image editing techniques and processes, workflow, digital file formats and image archiving. This iconic text was first published in 1890 and has aided many thousands of photographers in developing their own techniques and understanding of the medium. Now in full colour, The Manual of Photography still retains its clear, reader-friendly style and is filled with images and illustrations demonstrating the key principles. Not only giving you the skills and know-how to take stunning photographs, but will also allowing you to fully understand the science behind the creation of great images.
An ideal manual for the beginner. It contains handy hints for the novice as well as the more experienced side-saddle rider on topics such as different types of saddles, fitting saddles, mounting and dismounting, the correct seat, and habit and turnout.
This is a guide to photographing flowers. It approaches the subject according to the areas of interest to amateurs: flower species and their habitats, camera equipment (including a section on point and shoot cameras), lighting, exposure and composition. It address such specific flower-photography topics as: filling the frame with colour, closeups with flash, gardening the background, depth of field and focusing and separating the subject from the background.
In-hand showing has never been as popular as it is today. In this book, the author takes an in-depth look at what goes into the training and presentation of the successful in-hand animal.
This fully comprehensive guide to bits and bitting covers all types of bits, their correct fitting and actions with sections on internal and external aids, assessing the structure of your horses head, and how to measure bits.