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Favorite Fall Photo’s of Onaqui Herd

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We have photographed the Onaqui wild horses several times this fall, but I haven’t posted images to my website. Too many other projects to finish up before winter.

Unfortunately, another wild horse was needlessly shot and killed last week. This is the third wild horse shot and killed this year. Rewards for information leading to the arrest of those responsible are now up over $30,000. It is hard to imagine why a human being would decide to shoot a beautiful, defenseless animal that trusts humans enough to be within 50 feet! I’ve spent the last two days driving throughout the range the South herd uses looking for additional dead horses. There were a few horses still missing from the South herd. Thankfully I didn’t find any evidence of additional deaths, and it looks like all horses might now be accounted for.

Enjoy my favorite fall photographs!

Photographs of Onaqui Wild Horses – Aug – Great Sunset

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Lately every visit to the Onaqui seems to be better than the last! This week we found the North herd at the North base of Davis Mountain. We spent a few hours with them and left to find the South herd. we found them near Simpson Springs and photographed them till late. Then we decided to go back to the North herd to see where they were watering. Wow! What a treat! They had moved to the main road and were headed to the trough watering hole just as the sun was setting! We were in Heaven! Another fantastic day with this magnificent herd.

Onaqui Wild Horses – Late July

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Another great visit to the Onaqui wild horses in Utah’s West Desert. Found both herds and despite the near 100 degrees temps we had a great shoot, especially when the North herd left the watering hole to graze. Can’t wait to get back out there soon.

Onaqui Wild Horses – 27 June

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Wow! What a trip to photograph the Onaqui herd. The skies were fantastic all day long, lighting was just perfect. Even ran into an old friend (human, not horse). One of the best trips of the year. Apologies in advance for all of the images, just couldn’t thin them out any more.

The HUGE bitemark image is a photograph of Genesis.  He is part of Moondrinkers band.  In fact, Genesis is the son of Moondrinker and it was Moondrinker that bit all the way through his hide.  Moondrinker had Genesis by the hide and pushed his son for nearly 30 yards running at full steam through a small ravine!  I wish I had better images of the actual fight, but those images didn’t make the cut.  Both of them drew blood!

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Onaqui 18 June

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I have several trips to the Onaqui that I have not yet posted, but finally got these done of a trip we did last week to the Onaqui. We found both the North and the South herds. I hope to get the other trips done and posted soon.

Sorry for all of the photo’s. It was a very nice trip with a lot of “keepers”.

North & South Onaqui At Watering Holes – Late September

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Another glorious trip to see the Onaqui. Luckily we were able to be there when each herd came to the watering holes.

Onaqui Wild Horses – Nov/Dec

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I have had several visits to the Onaqui but haven’t gotten around to posting. Here are photos from a couple of recent visits. Lighting was very different between trips, horses very hard to find.

Photo Exhibit in Sandy City Hall

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The Mayor of Sandy City was so kind to to a brief walk-through of my photo exhibit that is displayed at Sandy City Hall (3rd floor). It can be seen M-F 8am-5pm (closed holidays), the exhibit will be up through Christmas.

Here is a link to her video. https://fb.watch/gY0pK9EzuM/

I have been out to photograph the Onaqui several times this month, just haven’t had time to post the photos yet, but I am nearly ready. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Onaqui Stallion at Sunset

Onaqui Wild Horses – July

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I just got tired of processing all of my Pryor Mustang photo’s and I was missing the Onaqui. Headed out a few days ago and photographed both the South and North Herd. I haven’t photographed the Onaqui for nearly a month! Not a lot of fantastic photographs but it was nice to see all of my favorite horses!

Onaqui Herd’s Newest Foal – 1 June 2022

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As you can see by the blood on the mothers legs, this foal is a newborn. Probably delivered the day we photographer them, June 1, or possibly May 29. We didn’t want to get too close, but as we observed the foal it seemed to be exhausted. Thankfully mom was very protective and kept all horses away from her newborn.

Several hours later, we saw the foal with mom ON THE RUN through the thick dust! The foal looked GREAT! It might even have blue eyes! What a beautiful sight!