Tag Archives: Horse

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Are You Ready to Rumble? Wild Horse Spat on the Tidal Flats

I was out photographing the wild horses yesterday evening. There were a few little spats that broke out while I was there. These short little bouts are about territory and domination and usually last only […]

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Portrait of A Wild Horse

When photographing the local wild horses I always try a few unexpected, heavily cropped compositions of these interesting animals. Occasionally I’ll get a result that I like, though honestly, not always. I suspect we’ve all […]

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New Wild Foal on the Reserve

Sunday evening I made a visit to the Rachel Carson Estuarine Reserve. I’d heard there was a new foal and this was my second visit to try to find and photograph it. While I failed […]

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Wild Horses on the Tidal Flats

I launched my kayak one morning last week and it was a perfect morning for photographing the wild horses of the Rachel Carson Estuarine Reserve from a kayak. These majestic animals were out feeding on […]

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Shackleford Banks Wild Mustang

The other evening I came across a memory card that I’d neglected to download. It was the last card I had loaded into my camera during June’s Wild Horses of the Crystal Coast workshop. While […]

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Afternoon Session: Wild Horses of the Crystal Coast Workshop

For the afternoon session of last weekend’s photography workshop we visited Shackleford Banks, a part of the Cape Lookout National Seashore. The horses on “Shack” have been traced via DNA testing to the original Iberian […]

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A Few Images From This Weekends Wild Horse Workshop: Saturday Morning Session

The weather was perfect for photographing wild horses along North Carolina’s Crystal coast last weekend. We started the workshop with a visit to the Rachel Carson Estuarine Reserve, Beaufort, North Carolina. The majority of the […]

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Reflection

Time the tides right and catch the wild horses out on the tidal flats at the Rachel Carson Estuarine Reserve and you have the perfect opportunity to include some reflections in your composition. This location […]

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Wild Horses in Late Morning Light

Like most photographers I prefer to make wildlife images in the good light of the early morning or an hour or two before sunset. However, things don’t always work out that way. I’d used my […]

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Wild Horses from the April 14/15 Workshop

The emphasis of the Wild Horses of the Crystal Coast workshop was obviously on the horses living along Shackleford Banks and with the Rachel Carson Estuarine Reserve. While it’s not unusual to snap a few […]

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