We arrived late last night in Green River Wyoming after a long day fossil hunting all over Utah & Colorado. We made it to the Butte at disk and for a free good shots in… Then our tire popped and we limped back to the hotel. We changed the tire and my husband Bruce took the car to a garage this morning to buy a new tire. It isn’t wise to go into some of these horse management areas without a good spare tire. We missed the early morning light on the Butte but we all slept in and we will catch the light tomorrow morning!

Now we are off to Fossil Butte and ‘Fossil Safari’ to find 55 million year old fossils! Then up to the Butte for the late afternoon lighting!

Wow! It is 1:09pm and we just finished, we drove 40 miles in and about the Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Management Area… We saw over 30 horses, some new from our trip yesterday. Paints, duns, roans, sorrels, blacks, buckskins, palominos, creamellos and one beautiful Appaloosa… It was amazing! The weather was mostly overcast and cool in the mid 60’s and the horses were very active. Yesterday was in the high 80’s yesterday and the horses barely moved. Today they were fighting and running and generally being rowdy and we got some incredible shots. Abby was by my side most of the time but occasionally she’d end up at about 90 degrees from my vantage point and she would get a wonderfully different perspective!

It is now raining lightly as we make our way out of the horse management area. We are all hungry and tired in a satisfied kind of way. My grateful thanks to Bruce for fearlessly driving over roads that gave me the willies and to Ben who patiently sat in the car while Abby and I photographed the mustangs.

The cameras are put away safely- all the Compact Flash cards are in their cases and carefully stored. I had so many good pictures that I changed the CF cards four times. Generally after shooting some action, I use another card just for security. I once accidentally reformatted a card with photos on it so I am extra careful.

A pretty amazing day- I can’t wait to see the photographs later at our hotel!

You’re driving for hours- literally but then… through the trees you spot a small herd- a palomino, a buckskin paint, a cremello or two and a black stallion… They spook and head up the hill and we get a few shots.

Moving forward we spot the black/brown foal from the day before and Abby and I get our of the car. Suddenly we hear a high pitched squeal and we run towards the noise… We come upon four stallions fighting! Two blacks, one sorrel and the apricot dun we saw yesterday. The black stallion from the small band we saw yesterday challenged the bachelor herd. Wow! The backdrop is a burned out forest. There must’ve been a fire a few years back… It presented a challenge because the camera tended to autofocus on the branches so I switched over to manual focusing and that worked well.

The overcast skies also worked beautifully- sometime too much sun creates a harshness and a garrishness to the photos- which is why you want the early morning sun and the late afternoon light. High-noon is not very forgiving in full sun!