Broken Horse

This was turning out to be the usual horse shoot. I'd decided to go with the horse insn't co-operating theme and couldn't line up a decent one of those. There were three horses and they were doing their best to ignore me and screw up the pix. They knew I was there. I was thinking of another pic called Horses Ass, as all three lined up a good distance apart and headed away but they made that look bad. I found another position, kept shooting, hoping, but getting nothing. Finally this one decided she had to check me out, turned and moved quickly to me. Luck was turning. I got a few decent images of her coming and she nosed my lens before I pulled my camera away. I scratched her head and talked her up, wishing I had a carrot. She waited while I changed lenses, I then shot this. She has no idea how psyched I was!

Horse's Ass

This was going to be a totally different shot when I stopped the car. I think the horses saw me and said, "OK, let's do something totally different when he comes up to the fence". So as I approached, they both turned around 180 degrees. I didn't want them to move, figured they would, and when it happened it still aggravated me. First I thought, "they don't get it". I didn't say it out loud, but I'm glad they turned around. Maybe the horses got it before I did? Nice pose.

Winter Horse

I think this image works. It's part of my winter series. Winter is a season of bad weather. I have to remind myself that just like a rainy drizzly day presents opportunity for photographers, rotten winter does. I could have shot the horse many different ways. I feel, without the edge of the tree (for the beginning of depth), without the branch laying in the snow (breaks up all the foreground white), the fence (more depth and color!), the horse, wind blown snow, and background would be just another image. My eyes move all around in this image. Do you think the horse is enjoying winter?