FriesianSeason.com
Title
Friesian Season -- The Best Friesians for Sale
Description
As a photo-journalist in the exciting realm of Show-horses, Annika Bruggeworth was employed by The National Horseman show horse magazine from 1995 until 2001. In that role she traveled the eastern region of the country extensively. During her tenure she had the unique opportunity to follow her dreams while drawing a paycheck. She was able to observe and document inner workings of the show horse world. At the time, as one of the most widely recognized representatives, Annika had the opportunity to glean ideas and information for several years regarding what the “ideal” horse operation might entail. Growing up on a farm that specialized in the breeding, sales and showing of fine show horses provided a rare insight for Annika on the benefits as well as the possible pitfalls that could befall a horse endeavor. Those informative years inspired her to launch a career as an insightful photo-journalist and she is still loosely affiliated as a correspondent and photographer with the magazines.
While employed with the aforementioned show horse magazines, Annika honed her skill at photography and her services became sought after by equestrians competing at levels that required advertising and promotion. She was also able to supplement her income with fees from the portraitures and subsequently found her images published in several magazines, simultaneously. In addition to photography, Annika drew on her artistic training derived while a student at The Ray Vogue School of Design in Chicago, Illinois. For a time Annika began a brisk side-business in artistic portraiture of her advertising clients. In her current pursuit of coordinating Friesian Season, she has the unique opportunity to implement her combined knowledge of horses, art, photography and business.
During Annika’s tenure as a journalist she found herself drawn to a certain breed of horse aside from the Saddlebreds she had been focused on while working for the magazines. Annika found herself noticing that several influential women in the industry had branched out and acquired charismatic Friesian horses and added them to their show stock. Annika had also taken notice of the breed prior to that and it was not long before she too was the proud owner of her first Friesian, Patrick. She was very successful with this horse and thus the journey began.
