Finally found the time to get out and photograph the herd. On the previous two photo shoots I found it difficult to find very many horses. Not so this trip. We probably saw 250 horses on this trip.
I haven’t had time to process many, but the foals that have been born in the past week or two were unbelievably cute. Here are a few….
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.
I had a few customers contact me asking what photographs I would recommend to them to have printed on metal. In my opinion most of my wild horse photographs print best on either lustre paper, or even better, on canvas. The photographs printed on metal that I have had printed were ones that had a lot of saturation and had a lot of dark colors with a lot of contrast in the image. So, I created five (thus far) photographs that I think will look really good printed on metal. I have one ordered for a close friend, but it has not arrived yet. These are the five photographs that I have completed, specifically with the thought of being printed on metal.
I do not print on metal myself, I have them printed and sent directly to your address.
If you would like to order a metal print, delivered to you ready to hang on your wall, please email me. I have several sizes available. These prices include shipping directly to you:
11×14 $70.00
16×20 $110.00
16×24 $130.00
20×30 $175.00
24×36 $210.00
I have finished processing all of the images I shot on the 24th of November. Every trip is different. The theme of this trip seemed to be photographing the herd at sunset. Doesn’t happen often, but when it does, one is amazed at the warm colors and beauty of the horses. Here is the final batch of images from that day.
Finally found the time to return and photograph this wonderful herd of Wild Horses in Utah’s West Desert. It has been over a month since I have had a chance to photograph them. What a treat seeing them again. The herd was quite far south, and must have used the watering hole earlier in the day. They seemed very calm and content, and they seemed to be lazily enjoying the spectacular November evening. Not a whole lot to photograph till sunset, but it was sure worth waiting for!!! What a special evening. The lighting was absolutely out-of-this-world! A rare treat to be right within the herd at just the right sunset. Another memory that will never be forgotten. I hope you enjoy this wonderful herd as much as I do..
Finally getting around to processing photographs taken on Sept 14 of the Onaqui herd of wild horses in Utah’s West Desert. Hard finding horses, poor setting etc. I found myself “seeing” in black and white most of the afternoon.
This post is a collection of the various thunderstorms I have photographed in Utah’s West Desert. I make it a point to get out and photograph the Onaqui Herd of wild horses whenever I can, especially if there is a chance of thunderstorms. It has been rare to get great lightning, but the sunsets are absolutely spectacular even if the lightning is a rarity. The photographs that are long (panoramic) were taken by stitching between 10 and 15 separate, overlapped images into one image. The file sizes are enormous, as I stitch RAW files from my Nikon D810. For example, the panoramic of the double rainbow is 21,700 X 7200 pixels! All files are significantly downsized (1800 X 1800 pixels, at 72 dpi) for posting. I have printed these panoramas 24″ X 72″ and you can’s spot any pixels at all.
We had another great trip photographing wild horses in Utah’s West Desert. The Onaqui herd is unique in that if you are mindful of their demeanor, you can walk right through the herd and get very close-up, intimate photographs of these magnificent creatures.
I haven’t had much time to process the approximately 2,000 photographs I shot, but here are a few of those that I have processed thus far. The photograph of the two red stallions on the run is a combination of the photograph I shot and a process that makes the photograph look like an oil painting. It has a more “contemporary” look but still has details that would appear in a photograph.
Another trip to the West Desert to photograph this magnificent herd of wild horses. The herd was hard to find, and it was much smaller than usual. I desperately hope the BLM hasn’t rounded up this herd.
Those horses that did come to the watering hole were few in number. Not a lot of fighting, but enough to keep you on your toes. The sunset was spectacular (as they always are in the West Desert). The small family band that is running to the watering hole is new to me. I don’t think I have photographed them before. I will have to go back and see if I have.
