Dean Remington did his twenty in the Marines and turned to photography.

Pony photography.

The concept was simple; take photos of children on a pony and sell the shots to the parents. “People all laughed at me like ‘Yeah, that’s really going to work’.”

Getting the notion up and going took a bit of doing.

He built up to his current ’63 Ford Falcon and spotless white Express van. Pony photography’s not a turnkey proposition.

“Buddy is housebroken and can visit indoors year round,” the glossy brochure says. The text is under a cute palomino pony that’s implied to be Buddy.

It wasn’t always so.

“He peed in the first day care center,” Dean laughs. That was 15,000 pony rides ago. Now the little fellow’s trusted in elevators. “When he needs to go he just twitches his tail and we pull him off the set.”

Now Buddy the pony’s hit the big time.

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