Featured Image for January 2025 "Come As You Are" This is Midnight In case you partied a bit too late last night, I wanted to give you an image to welcome in the New Year that says COME AS YOU ARE. You are welcome here. Midnight is one of the Lead Mares of a mustang […]
Featured Image for November 2024 "Blue" This is Blue. He's the leader of a band of horses in the valley at Flag Ranch. Blue came to Flag Ranch through a young woman who adopted him from a man who had rounded up mustangs on or near his property and was breeding them; Blue was born […]
Featured Image for November 2024 "Walking In Thanksgiving" This month's featured image is a mustang who was adopted and has a beautiful home where she can now roam freely in a natural herd environment. I watched this horse and several others eating and casually walking amongst the herd, and then watched this one walk south toward […]
Featured Image for October 2024 "Curves" This month's featured image is just a simple homage to the shapes and textures in a horse. Sometimes an image just speaks to me and it doesn't need a story. This image was taken at the San Luis Obispo Return to Freedom Wild Horse Sanctuary on April 26, 2024 […]
Featured Image for September 2024 "Curious Aria" She kept walking toward me with this look of curiosity. She'd take a few steps, watch me, take a few more steps, watch, more steps and watch. She was so curious. She was probably wondering "What is that thing she is holding that keeps clicking?" I love Aria's […]
Featured Image for August 2024 "Being Seen" Her expression says to me "What are you waiting for? Bring it. I'm here. I'm ready. I see you." While there's acceptance of "what is" there's also a readiness for whatever is to come and she stands here with the ability to see it all and to respond appropriately."Horses […]
Featured Image for July 2024 "Lunch Guest" Between bites of our peanut butter sandwiches, we looked at each other. "Was that...?" and pretty soon, yes, we heard horse nickers as they moved from the brush toward the river AND WE WERE RIGHT IN THEIR PATH! The wild horses of the Salt River! I crammed the […]
Featured Image for June 2024 "Dahlia and Cassidy" Dahlia (on the left) affectionately touches her son, Cassidy, who looks over his shoulder in my direction. Dahlia was rounded up along with her 3 month old foal Rose, who was taken from her after the round up. Cassidy was born in the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) […]
Featured Image for May 2024 "Gratitude for the Day" Trainer Gary Hartle has a moment with "Stella Bella" just after the sun set at the "Making Pegasus" ranch in Lockwood, California. This image was created during our Pegasus Equine Photography Workshop in April. I asked Gary to walk with one of the mares, back and forth […]
Featured Image for April 2024 "Swish" I was standing on a cat walk in a barn; the horse trotted by below me and the goal was to just get an interesting shot from a different perspective. This image was taken at Return to Freedom Wild Horse Sanctuary in Lompoc, California in May, 2019. The image has been […]
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