It's Been a Hard Day's Night!

[Marina Scarr]

Photographed this stallion at the end of what appeared to be a LONG day. It must take a lot of energy to look after four mares and a couple of foals. I liked this capture b/c of the light, how drained yet how powerful he looks, and b/c of the environment where these horses thrive is included.

Canon 5D, Canon 70-200 & 1.4 @ 280mm
F8, 1/1000sec, ISO 400, manual mode
Handheld

C & C always welcomed and much appreciated.

Marina

[peter delaney]

Marina ,nice image

only suggestion I would make is to slightly crop top to loose the small blue patches of sky...
I would have probaly waited a another second or two before I pressed the shutter just for the feet to be visible

[david cramer]

I know this fellow! Agree with Peter about crop and feet. He does look bedraggled, doesn't he? Beautiful light and nice setting, as well as displaying his long mane and tail.

[Alfred Forns]

Great suggestion by Peter !!! Love the tired look and feel ... did capture the moment !!!! Excellent !!!

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Agree with Peter's suggestion. Lovely animal. I think I had seen this fellow in one of David's image in a gorgeous setting, but am not sure. By the way, how do you know individual animals? By their mane and tail apart from the body size?

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Marina Scarr]

This wild stallion was found thanks to our guide David Cramer, and I am confident you have seen this horse before in his images. Most all horses look different but, in particular, stallions can be easy to decipher. I think David could offer more information on why.

I have cropped the sky off of the picture, and I must admit that I like it better. Unfortunately, I don't have an imagine of the horse with all feet showing b/c he was moving quickly uphill, but I am okay with two feet showing and the bush.

[Mike Tracy]

One point that could be made for keeping the sky is that it adds depth. With a sliver of sky your eye follows the hill upward and you get more of a sense of the lay of the land.

Nicely seen and executed.

The one little circular "thingy" directly below his mouth could stand removal.

He does look tuckered out.