Temple is always up for unique images. 🙂
Her band was grazing their way up a hill after crossing a little arroyo, and another band was behind them on the lower ground.
We don’t have any rain in our forecast, but we did get some stormy-looking clouds to the east last evening to balance the golden evening glow.
Like mother, like daughter; Alegre and Maia. Beauty-full grey girls!
Are they the cutest or what?!
Answer: They’re the cutest. 🙂
Buckeye and Rowan.
And so we are.
You cannot possibly wonder why I adore backlighting. 🙂 That’s Mariah, rimmed in light, as she follows her band and another to the arroyo that is Spring Creek to drink from the cool, pooled and trickling water left from the last flood.
It’s here – autumn – as the hues of the Earth and light start to soften and turn gold – even earlier and later than golden hours.
I love autumn and its beautiful light that embraces the mustangs during the last warm days of summer.
Sweet Chipeta, loved by light and all humans fortunate enough to gaze upon her.
The moment when Temple noticed Corazon’s band in the distance.
This moment lasted about 2.7 seconds … and then she returned to her peaceful grazing.
I was waiting to get her, the background horizon, the stormy sky in a *moment* … and that’s all I needed.
While hanging out with another band several evenings ago, I saw Corazon’s band a fair distance away. They were, in fact, up the hill to the left as you’re looking at the above photo. It was a cool perspective, but the horses were just enough over a little hill that they weren’t super recognizable with their heads down, grazing.
I kept an eye on them while enjoying my closer band, and eventually, they came into better view – which you see above. And eventually after THAT, they ended up very close to me and the band I was with. 🙂
A whole photo essay could be dedicated to the artistry of the mustang tail swish. This one, catching that luscious light, would come in near the top of the gallery.
(Photo-nerdy background info: I regularly delete pix that show a horse with a “normal” or straight-hanging tail as opposed to pix that show a lovely swish. I regularly let my camera indulge in its fast burst rate to take multiple images of a moment in order to hopefully get that *pretty* swish (let alone other loveliness).)
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 