“You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it. … ” –Denzel Washington This colt. tribute | ˈtribyo͞ot | noun […]
Behavior / Landscape / Older Horse Images
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Dartboard
For years now, I have been archiving the lives of this collection of free range horses. I cannot, with certainty, articulate why I choose the images I do […]
Foal / Landscape / Weanling and Yearling
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Dainty is Over-Rated
Several months into her life and this filly is brimming with independence. She seems serious but curious–sincere even–if a horse can be sincere. The comparison between her two-day-old […]
Foal / Landscape / Mare and Foal Images
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Do Horses Experience Beauty?
This colt is on high alert when I am nearby, as is his mother, but he pauses in this moment to get a good look at me. It […]
Behavior / Foal / Mare and Foal Images
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Belly Games
In her first hours of life this filly seemed to delight in wobbling around and under her mother repeatedly. This was not the usual foal action of instinctually […]
Behavior / Foal / Landscape / Mare and Foal Images
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Growing Into a Name
I can imagine these images may be rather pedestrian to some viewers, but these little moments of horse life interest me. The simple act of walking through a […]
Behavior / Foal / Herd Life Images / Landscape / Mare and Foal Images / Mares
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Attempted Maternal Coup
Early on a March morning I was fortunate to be in the right place at the right time. Two mares had given birth a couple hours previous to […]
Foal / Herd Life Images / Landscape / Mare and Foal Images
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Four Thousand Three Hundred Twenty Little Hours
With a little time, grass, mother’s milk and energizing sunshine this colt has bloomed into a uniquely handsome ready-to-wean lean machine. Notice how cute and determined he […]
Behavior / Herd Life Images / Landscape / Mare and Foal Images
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Whiskers on Kittens
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, These are a few of my favorite […]
Behavior / Landscape / Mares
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We Are the Champions
A graceful champion does not put on airs, she does not demand special treatment or crave supremacy. He comports herself with the utmost dignity, has benevolence, and sophistication. […]
Herd Life Images / Landscape
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Opposite Day
In stark contrast to current late-summer-blast-furnace conditions, this lush springtime scene is a refreshing reminder that greener days will come again. Young horses of varied ages frolic in […]
Behavior / Herd Life Images / Mares
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Prickly Pear
” … I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow, I am the gentle showers of rain, I am the fields of […]
Behavior / Mare and Foal Images
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The Warning
Being a prey animal, a horse’s natural defense response is flight. However, there are occasions when standing their ground is a choice. Mares with more dominant natures will […]
Foal / Mare and Foal Images
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Far From Ordinary
Ordinary is not a label that fits this colt. He was born with an extra velvety hair coat, a distinctive long face, pale eyes, and a tiny white […]
Behavior / Foal / Landscape / Mare and Foal Images
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If Days Had Halos
In direct contrast to today’s wildfire and extreme-heat ravaged California, this memory is connected to a glorious California morning in mid April. Mild in temperature and robed in […]
Foal
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Meeting Her World Head On
It looks like she’s holding something in her mouth but I guess that’s her concentration-face. The world comes at you from every direction, all day long when you’re […]
Foal
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Around the Mountain
In an amusing trick of nature, this colt’s white face marking drips down his face seemingly detoured by the large (noble) bump on his face. When you can’t […]
Foal / Landscape
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Oats and Oaks
A magical setting for a mystery foal. She’s a cutie, and her arrival was a surprise so I guess finding her in a mystical setting was appropriate.
Behavior / Landscape / Stallion
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Other Nations
“We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the […]
Behavior / Foal / Landscape / Mare and Foal Images
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Born For Adventure
I had my work cut out for me on the morning this foal was born. Mother followed the herd on a round trip of a couple of miles, […]