My great idea of taking pictures of horses in the valley has turned out to be more difficult than I thought it would be. If I have a camera with me, the horses are in the back forty or beyond. If I forget my camera, the horses are up close and personal! Why is that?
Then there’s the problem of the horses not doing anything interesting. I can get a lot of pictures of horses chewing on the grass. They are so intent on eating dry nubbins of grass that they don’t even look up when I call. Or worse, right when I think I’m going to get a good picture, they start to do something that I don’t think is very photographic.
There’s no problem in finding the back end of the horse...
but getting a good head shot seems to be more illusive. One of these two was at least looking in my direction, but the other fellow was browsing (which seems to be a favorite past-time).
This fellow was in the back of the field. I used a super zoom lens to snap him up. He was standing still, looking in my direction and not eating! A minor victory for me. While I was not successful in finding horses running with the wind or frolicking in the field, I did see some pretty animals.
