ADVENTURE PHOTOGRAPHY

with Cathy & Gordon ILLG

Great Scenery Too!

WYOMING
WILD HORSES
 
May 26 - 30, 2009
$      Deposit $500
Airport:   Denver, Colorado
Wyoming's high plains are not a hospitable place...cold in the winter, hot in the summer.  It's the reason so few people call Wyoming home.  Here on these arid, sagebrush covered, wide open spaces though, lives a relic from the earliest days of European exploration.  Wild horses have always held a certain mystique for us.  Maybe it's because they are a symbol of the vanishing West, maybe we just like to photograph horses.

Running Free

Behavior/Action

However, there are many places around the country where wild horses can still be found.  Why travel to this inhospitable place to find them?  A combination of factors makes this part of Wyoming ideal for photographing wild horses.  The habitat is a photogenic mixture of badlands, sagebrush and grassland, and there is good road access to the places where the horses hang out.
The horses themselves are in good shape.  They come in a wide variety of colors and they are reasonably tolerant of photographers.  You can expect to find at least one herd every day that will allow a close approach on foot.  This trip is scheduled for late May, before the weather is too hot.  This also gives us a good opportunity to photograph interactions between mothers and colts.  We'll spend three full days in the field photographing wild horses on the border between Colorado and Wyoming.  We'll be traveling in enclosed, air-conditioned,  4-wheel drive vehicles.

Curious Youngster

Mountain Silhouette

If the sight of horses running free across the prairie with their manes streaming behind them stirs your soul, or you want to capture the action as competing stallions lash out at each other, or if you just want to visit an area where you can be truly alone as you photograph the wild things rather than be surrounded by a battery of big lenses, this is the trip you're looking for.