Horses and Marmots

Went out in the middle of the day today to see about taking some photos of the wild horses. Not the most ideal time of the day to try and take photos of wildlife (if you consider the horses to be wildlife) but then it was more of an exercise of getting out and taking some photos while I had free time and seeing what I could come up with for the conditions. It was super windy out today also and that made it slightly more challenging to keep the camera steady with a larger lens on.

 After checking out the horses for a bit I drove over off East McCarran where there are some fields and there were marmots all over the place so I pulled off along side the road where I saw one near the edge of the field to try and get some images of them. They are real skittish so most the time they just took off for their burrow but I managed to get a few of this guy sticking his head out.

Wild Horses

These were a few photos of some wild horses I took the other day. I was wanting to spend some more time trying out a new camera and had seen these hoses out in a meadow so I figures they would make a good subject to work with for a bit. Did not last long though as it started to rain but I did get a few shots. With these horses hanging out in an area next to lots that were to be developed but have just been sitting for a couple years the hard part is composing a photo that does not include the trash and other stuff that is on the surrounding empty lots. You can see a little bit of it in the top of the middle picture. If I had of had more time I would have liked to recompose this to fully eliminate that from the frame.

Wild Horse

I took the girls out last week to an area where there are usually several deer hanging out in a field so that they could do a little wildlife viewing. After checking out the deer I noticed a few wild horses up on the hill behind us so we drove up the dirt road a little ways to get a better look. After checking out the three horses we first spotted I notice this horse further up the road and decided to get a closer look. With the way this horse was standing in this photo his body was mostly shaded so I did some shadow enhancement in my post processing to get more detail in the shaded area of his body. The kids had a good outing day as after we watched the wildlife for a bit we headed of and walked through the car museum.