Sunday Stills: Horses

This weeks Sunday Stills challenge was, according to Ed, "the hardest challenge yet." I think he was being facetious because, as I've come to discover, a huge proportion of Sunday Stillers are horse people and the topic he chose was "horses!" Must explain one reason I enjoy particpating so much!

This was, yet again, a topic I thought would be so fun, and yet here I am on the road. I have lots of horse pictures in my files, and we see many horses all across the country, but not that frequently in situations where I can whip out the camera and snap a few.

And then...miracle....as we were cruising through Brawley, CA on our miserable day, looking for something to grab to eat before going back to wait our turn to load, I noticed that there were horses all over town! Apparently the rodeo had been the previous weekend, and they were still cleaning up. And so as we cruised through I tryed to get the best pictures I could while rolling, because there wasn't time to get out and stroll through town.

No one said it had to be live horses that got photographed!

Half a Horse

This was a western wear store. Does anyone else think the shadow of his front half kind of looks like a horses rear end and tail? So maybe he's a whole horse after all!

The smallest horse in town.

They had a very creative and tallented window artist at work. There were only four windows that handn't been cleaned. In my picture of one the camera auto focused on the cow instead of the horse, and I missed one of them. The risks of photography in motion. But the two I got were very well done.

Malcolm liked the one below. Recognize the truck in the reflection? That's one horse power with 550 horse power running behind it.