"The Light"
Photographers and Artists are drawn to the light; the way the light affects the subject or the scene, and the mood it creates. This image was taken at Return to Freedom's San Luis Obispo Sanctuary on May 13, 2025, during a private photo safari tour. We got great light that day.
There's a whole other story about how we drove down off the hill and back to our cars that night, where I realized I didn't have my phone. It was dark and I couldn't go back and look for it in the dark, so I went back the next day. Between when I realized it was gone and when I went back, I just kept asking the horses to lead me to my phone or show me where it was. Driving back up the hill, I looked all along the road and drove back to the last area where I knew I had it, and as I came around the hill, there were all the horses; just standing around like they were waiting for a meeting. And there was my phone, on the ground, dusty but unharmed. Once I picked it up and thanked them from the bottom of my heart, they swished their tails and sauntered off in another direction.
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