Wow, it seems like I haven’t had time to photograph the Onaqui herd of wild horses for months! Finally had a chance to get out and hopefully photograph them in a snowstorm. This trip was by far the most difficult trip I have ever had finding the herd. I traveled further than I have ever traveled only to find this small family band. I love this group of wild horses. The white colt is absolutely SPECTACULAR. He is destined to be a herd stallion in the coming years. Unfortunately the BLM is scheduling a roundup of this herd this summer and the band and this colt (with one blue eye and one brown eye) will likely be rounded up and sent to a holding pen with over 50,000 other wild horses to live out its life in holding pens…
This beautiful colts father is the palamino stallion shown in these photographs. He has two blue eyes. The mother is still with this small band as you can see from the photographs. I was hoping to have a stronger snowstorm. I had pre-visualized these photographs with more snow obscuring the horses and allowing longer shutter speeds to blur the snow. Grateful for what I did get, I hope to get out again soon to see if I can find the rest of the herd before the BLM rounds them up.
