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SJ Originals

Visionary • Metis • Photographer • Western Lifestyle • Storyteller

As a self taught photographer I love to share my creativity and visions with others ~ Every time I pick up my camera I strive to capture things as I see them. With my original ideas I hope to produce quality images with a creative twist ~ that stand alone in their uniqueness.

09/02/2026

Part I - Horse Medicine & Heart Opening.

Every healer eventually reaches a threshold where even her strength asks to be held.

Susanne arrived with a soft intention, to open her heart in a way she had not yet dared.

A powerful healer in her own right, she came seeking a deeper layer, a place where those who guide others are finally guided themselves… where even the strongest women are supported, witnessed, and invited to rise into new heights.

She asked me if it was possible to work with the horses and I invited her to meet my entire herd.

She stepped into their pen; gently, openly, letting the horses choose what medicine they wished to offer.

We allowed them to volunteer their wisdom.

And Badger… he was the one who first answered her call.

There was no grand gesture, no dramatic moment, just a steady presence, a soft knowing, big soft eyes and the kind of energy that meets you exactly where you are.

Horses have the kind of discernment that meets you exactly where your truth lives.

I let them walk out of the barn together, giving them space to feel each other’s rhythm, to let their souls recognize one another.

When their connection settled, I asked them to move to a new space.

And something beautiful happened.

Something sacred.

Susanne leaned back into him, not out of need, but out of knowing.

Out of trust.

In that gentle lean, her heart found a place to be held in a different way.

A woman allowing herself to receive support and not knowing exactly how it would arrive.

In that quiet lean, her heart found a place to rest… and then to open.

Badger held her with the kind of strength that doesn’t overpower, it steadies.

It reminds.
It reawakens.

This is the kind of medicine horses offer when we let them choose.

This is the kind of magic that happens when a woman says yes to herself.

This is the work I’ve devoted my life to, held by the land that raised me, shaped me, and continues to whisper its ancient wisdom through every horse who chooses to step forward.

A place where souls don’t just reconnect… they remember.

Where hearts don’t just soften… they open.

Where people don’t just change… they return to who they were always meant to be.

This is horse medicine.

Wild, honest, and impossibly precise.

08/24/2026

The softest parts of us often carry the strongest dreams.

There’s a kind of magic in becoming the next version of you.

The quiet mornings where you doubt yourself.

The loud dreams that refuse to let you quit.

The soft parts of you that still believe… and the fierce parts that finally know you can.

Graduating.

From school, from seasons of life, from versions of ourselves, isn’t just a milestone.

It’s a moment where you realize you’ve been walking toward your future long before you ever reached any finish line.

And if you’re lucky, you learn to move through it all with a horse at your side.

Because horses teach us the balance we forget:

That you can be gentle and still unshakably strong.
That you can be soft-hearted and still wildly determined.
That you can chase big dreams without losing the little girl inside who once believed anything was possible.

They remind us to lift our chin.
To breathe deeper.
To step forward even when the path feels uncertain.
To trust our legs, our courage, our direction.

And maybe that’s the real graduation.

Not the ceremony, not the certificate.

But the moment you realize you’re allowed to be both fierce and tender as you build the life you want.

So here’s to the ones who are growing, glowing, and going after it.

Here’s to the ones who still believe in the magic of movement.

Here’s to the horses who carry our dreams a little farther than we could carry them alone.

And here’s to you, becoming everything you once hoped you’d be.

08/20/2026

Part III - The Woman Rising From Water and Light

She sits astride her horse in the water, ripples glowing gold around them as the sun sinks low.

Her pink boots are soaked, her skirt clings to her legs, and she laughs.

The kind of laugh that feels like freedom.

Her horse is unsure yet stands steady beneath her, a quiet guardian of her courage.

And as she lifts her face toward the last light of the day, she feels something shift.

A realization that she is allowed to be both the girl who dreamed wildly and the woman who makes those dreams real.

Growing up isn’t losing magic.

It’s choosing it again, even after life has shown you its storms.

It’s remembering the worlds you once imagined.

And daring to build them.

This is her story.

a girl becoming a woman,
wrapped in tulle and grit,
riding toward a future she gets to create.

A reminder to everyone watching:

Dream big.

Honor the child you once were.

And never stop imagining the life you’re capable of.

Because somewhere inside you, that little dreamer is still waiting
to be believed in again.

08/19/2026

Part II - Where Wild Hearts Keep Growing

She walks down a quiet road with her horse beside her, boots scuffing gravel, tulle dancing around her legs like a soft rebellion.

There’s a whimsical grace to her.

Airy, sunlit, almost otherworldly.

But beneath it lives a wild, determined heart.

The kind of heart raised by open skies, honest animals and strong women.

The kind of heart that knows how to be both fierce and soft.

The kind of heart that carries entire worlds.

Every step forward is a vow:

to honor the girl she used to be,
to protect the dreams she once carried in both hands,
to keep choosing wonder even when the world forgets how to offer it.

She is becoming.

Not by abandoning her childhood magic.

But by letting it lead her.

08/18/2026

Part I- The girl who dreams.

She pauses half in shadow, half in possibility.

This is where she dreams big.

Where she imagines whole worlds before she ever steps into them.

Where she believes she can run wild with the wind and grow into someone brave enough to chase the light instead of waiting for it.

A young girl on the edge of womanhood.

Her eyes lift toward the brightness outside, and for a moment she feels the same spark she had at eight years old, when she believed the world was hers to shape.

The bridle in her hands is more than leather and silver.

It’s a symbol of every hope she’s held onto, every dream she refused to let the world take from her.

And as the sunlight warms her face, she realizes she’s still reaching for the same light she chased as a young child…

Only now, she’s ready.

In this moment, she isn’t just lost in her imagination creating her dreams.

She’s stepping straight into them.

08/16/2026

When life looks different and you don't know what you want.

Go back to where it started.

When life gets you down.

Go back to where it started.

When life doesn't feel light.

Go back to where it started.

When the path ahead doesn't seem clear.

Go back to where it started.

I can see now how life can wear you down. Life experiences can take the wind out of your sails. Where life doesn't feel as sharp or as bright as it once was. When life just doesn't flow like it used to.

Here's a secret, its not you, its the programming.

In this experience on earth, we always have a choice.

We have free will.

And we are more powerful than what we have ever been told.

So when you look at your life, the world, this human experience and wonder where your magic went, where the flow went, where the manifestations are.

Go back to where it started.

Where you first felt aligned.

It may not feel the same as it once did, yet I promise you its still there.

We have transmuted more than we will ever know already.

We are here in this earthly experience when so much is meant to change.

This phase is meant to feel differently.

It's meant to sharpen our senses when we feel lost.

It's meant for us to become greater than we ever thought possible.

It's why its felt hard.

Yet if you hold on to only one thing today.

May it be this: go back to where it started.

Go back to where you felt the most alive.

And hold onto it like it will heal the world.

Because it will.

08/05/2026

You're allowed to choose a life that feels like you.

The way the wind moves without permission.

How the light falls where it wants across the landscape.

You can be that free.

So find the moment.

Find the feeling.

Remember that you are more than what you carry.

Step forward.

And find your freedom.

07/25/2026

Some horses don’t just walk through time.

They carry it.

This horse, marked with a brand more than a century old, is one of them.

A living piece of history, a chapter that never closed, a story still being written in dust and sunlight.

For years, he was the partner of a man whose life felt like a rope mid‑swing.

Full of momentum, full of purpose, full of determintation, full of things still left to do.

A man whose touch taught the horse the rhythm of work.

The quiet language of trust.

The art of moving forward even when the road gets rough.

And now, in a way that feels almost like fate.

His daughter rides him.

A woman shaped by the same dust, the same wind, the same fire.

She settles into the saddle where his dreams once sat.

She gathers the reins he once held.

She swings a rope with the same steady confidence he carried.

It’s not a story of endings.

It’s a story of continuation.

A legacy that didn’t stop; it simply shifted.

A life that wasn’t unfinished at all, just waiting for the next hand to pick up the thread.

There’s a softness in the way they listen to one another.

A familiarity in the way she moves with him.

As if both of them know they’re part of something bigger than themselves.

A brand over 100 years old.
A horse who remembers.
A daughter who carries forward what her father began.

Some stories aren’t meant to end.

They’re meant to be lived again.

And again.

In new hearts, new hands.

Because some legacies aren’t carved in stone.

They’re carried on in the saddle.

07/21/2026

There’s a certain magic in moments like this.

When you're standing at the edge of what was, looking out toward what could be.

A chapter closes, not with loss, but with a deep breath and the quiet knowing that you’ve earned every step that brought you here.

And now the world opens.

Blank pages.

Bright horizons.

A future that’s yours to shape with courage.

Curiosity.

And the fire that’s been growing inside you all along.

Moving on isn’t leaving something behind.

It’s rising into the next version of yourself.

Its time for the next chapter.

The best one yet.

And its yours to create.

05/18/2026

There’s a brand‑new cowgirl in this world.

Small in size, but already carrying the kind of strength only the West can teach.

Cowgirls aren’t just raised.

They’re shaped by love, grit, hard work and the gentle wisdom of horses.

And this little one will grow up knowing the warmth of a muzzle against her cheek, the trust of a good horse, and the quiet courage to take on the this world.

May she grow bold, kind, and unafraid of the trail ahead.

May she always find freedom in the saddle.

Wisdom in the wind.

And comfort in the western way of life.

Here’s to the tiniest cowgirl.

Already strong.
Already loved.
Already part of a story bigger than herself.

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Go Hard Ranch
Wildwood, AB
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http://www.sjoriginals.com/

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