Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

All right, folks, put on your voting caps – it’s time for the second calendar contest for Spring Creek Basin’s mustangs. Please help me decide photos for next year’s calendar, which will feature photos of our gorgeous horses! For your help and support of our wild horses, your vote (at least once) will enter you in a drawing to win a calendar.

It has been another wild year … not without controversy or tragedy (both related and not to the roundup). But the roundup itself was a small part of the year, which included unparalleled joys. I didn’t take any photos during the roundup, so none will be included in this calendar. However, please realize that some (many) photos will be of horses that were removed during the roundup. I think (I know) this might be (will be) emotionally difficult. It already has been difficult for me, looking back through the pix …

I know I’m late (again), and it’s a busy time of year, so let’s get down to business. I also thought I’d have time to look at a different style of calendar, but I just didn’t (crazy year!), so I’ll do the same type that I did last year.

In fact, it worked so well last year that I’m going to do it just like that this year.

Except … let’s have an earlier date to end voting and pick a winner. Tomorrow (Saturday, Nov. 26), I’ll post choices from January through October, and will have November and December up as soon as I can. Voting will end Dec. 9.

I’m just not sure about a cover this year. I have a coupla/few in mind, and I’ll note them in each month. Some months are going to be tough …

I’ll say *most* of the calendar pix will have been taken in the month they represent – of this last year (2011) – except December; I think I’m going to have to pull from last year to get something suitable.

Also like last year …

Purchase info: If you’d like to buy a calendar, I’ve settled on $15, which includes my cost of the calendar and printing the photos and a $5 donation to NMA/CO – and I will send all the calendars with our most recent newsletter (which I also have to buckle down and create!) and the brochure we did with BLM. I know photos and descriptions can be misleading, so I want to make sure you all know this is NOT a commercially-produced, large-format, glossy calendar. It IS small – the calendar itself is about 5 3/4 inches by 7 3/4inches and opens to 5 3/4 by 11 1/4 inches long. The photos ARE custom – all Spring Creek Basin mustangs, all taken by yours truly in 2011 (or 2010), (mostly) in the months they represent. The photos are 4×6 inches. I’ll probably have the photos printed commercially this year. They’re then attached to the calendar with pre-set adhesive strips. (The calendars are printed on recycled paper, and the company is based in Colorado Springs. Learn more about them at Photographer’s Edge.)

You can see last year’s calendar and all the photos by clicking on “December 2010” under “Archives” at upper right on this blog.

I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who read about these amazing horses for your support. Your support is felt. THANK YOU!