I am so in love with just about every millimeter of this image! Other than a tiny sliver off the right side, it’s the full frame of what came out of the camera (*why* actual photo frames are made for sizes that require large slivers to be sliced off images as they come out of cameras, I will NEVER understand). After years (literally, her entire life) of being photographed, Winona is not the most cooperative of photographic subjects in Spring Creek Basin (I understand, I do, as I’m the one most often pointing a long tube in her direction!). This day, after a fresh blanket of snow that ranged from an inch in lower Disappointment Valley to a whopping 12 inches (or more) several miles up-valley, I longed to get a pic of her with that golden galleta from this past autumn with the blue-whites of the far ridges in one frame, so I was almost “shooting from the hip,” trying to keep her in focus as she walked across the little rise to join her family … and this was one of the results.
Since she was a little bitty buckskin baby (I did say that grey is our dominant color …?), when I foalsat (!) her as she napped in fields of light-lit grass on summer afternoons and evenings, mama Kestrel and daddy Comanche grazing nearby, I have loved, loved, loved, LOVED her. 🙂 And out of the thousands (?!) of photos I’ve taken of her, this one probably is my very most favorite ever.
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 
She is a beauty! Thanks for your love of the horses.
They are the loves of my life. 🙂
She seems to love posing for Her photo shots! Very beautiful indeed!
Ha – she really does NOT love to pose! 🙂 But she’s beautiful all the same, and I manage to “catch” her despite her efforts to avoid the limelight.
I’m with you, TJ. Even though I haven’t known her as long as you, I love, love love her too! From way back when she belonged to our long-departed, beloved Chrome. She is such a perfect buckskin girl!
Indeed. 🙂 We do miss Chrome. … I couldn’t believe it when I realized she was turning grey. Another one! 😉
What a beautiful shot of a such a beautiful girl!!! No wonder I am fond of her. I love/loved her parents.
Spring Creek Basin royalty. 🙂
She’s dreamy, TJ !
Yes, she is! 🙂
She’s so beautiful. ❤️
Yes, she most certainly is. 🙂
The sweetest face. Thanks TJ for all of the wonderful photos of the beautiful mares…
The stallions usually get all the oohs and ahhs … but I love the wise mares who are the real leaders of their families. 🙂
Yes for comment about the real leaders, so true in most of life