During my recent Mono Lake Workshop, we were told there was a herd of wild horses wandering through the Mono Basin and places southeast of Mono Lake. So we went looking and found scores of them in the open desert. The first four we encountered were happily grazing near some water. The Featured Print above shows some of the interaction.
The herd we saw off in distance looked huge, with at least dozens of horses. One male seemed dominate among them and led the whole heard across the road in front of us, making for a great view, but challenging photographs with so many, all moving and for me at least, with the 800mm lens on. Some of my students had a greater variety of views with their shorter lenses. The old photojournalist technique of multiple cameras with different focal length lenses would have been a good option. Perhaps I’ll start carrying the second Canon R5 body…
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