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Wrangling the Horses At Sunrise

The wranglers are driving the horses from the stable at sunrise. The Golden Hour gives the scene a glow.

The wranglers are driving the horses from the stable at sunrise. The Golden Hour gives the scene a glow.

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Canon EOS 60D

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Aperture f/5.6 ISO 320 Shutter 1/500 Focal Length 400/1

location

Wyoming, US

upload_date

Apr, 2017

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Awards

Contest Finalist in Moving Fast And Quick Photo Contest

Contest Finalist in People And Animals Photo Contest

Contest Finalist in Strong Foregrounds Photo Contest

Peer Choice Award

Contest Finalist in A Horse And I Photo Contest

Contest Finalist in Image Of The Month Photo Contest Vol 21

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my favorite and you will do amazing with this capture ... its outstanding !

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I love these shots !! they are so lifelike.........like out of a movie!!

and my favourite .. what's not to love .. action , dust, composition !!! Wow !!!

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Excellent!

Amazing , voted Image of the Month

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This is one of my favourites, reminds me of the old westerns.. fabulous shot:-)

Congratulations on a well deserved finalist award. I hope you win.

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yay...congrats on your Finalist Award. xoxoxo

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Wow, you nailed it on this one - looks like he is coming right at you. Congratulations on your Finalist award!! :)

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Yay, Kay! Congrats on being a Finalist with this beautiful shot! Very sharp

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my favorite. voted social exposure!

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voted covers!

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Congratulations on your award!

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR AWARD, Finalist Image of the Month

You wrangled your camera to get one choice shot. Voted A Horse & I.

Voted Covers.

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Great shot! Excellent capture! Thanks for keeping the visions of the west alive .

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Congratulations! Another Finalist win!! This one is certainly deserving of it and keeping fingers crossed that you'll come in a winner! Yea :)

Congratulations on a well deserved finalist award for the Horse and I contest. I truly hope this excellent capture takes the prize.

Excellent picture your outstanding capture

congrats on the finalist award Horse and I .. love this image

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Congratulations on your award Kay!

Congratulations Finalist in A Horse and I Photo Contest, good luck !!

Congrats on being a finalist! Way to go!!

This is a great shot, Kay! Congrats on your finalist award!

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yay...another Contest Finalist for you. Congrats Kay xoxoxo

Voted One With Nature

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voted summer time!

Voted My Best Shot

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Congrats again, Kay! Love, love, love this shot!

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Voted My Best Shot :)

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Voted Showing Movement :)

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Voted Celebrating Nature :)

Congratulations !! Won Peer Choice Award

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Congratulations on your Peer Choice award!

Voted Strong Foregrounds

Voted Viewbug Photography Awards, good luck !! Kay

Voted VB Photo Award for this powerfully awe inspiring shot.

Voted Strong Foregrounds.

Voted People at Work. Is it work or is it pure fun to be riding horseback? I wonder.

Three finalists and a Peer award, it doesn't get any better, unless it is a Royal Flush Win. My compliments Kay, you did good with this photo and a few more photos from your trip up to the cowboy country.

Voted People at Work

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Congratulations on your strong foregrounds award!

Congratulations Finalist in People and Animals Photo Contest

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I just saw that you got another award for this photo in March! Wow - congratulations!!

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Voted World Photography Day :)

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Congratulations on your Finalist award in People and Animal Photo Contest!

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Voted Unique Sceneries :)

Great rancher photo.

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Fabulous image! I voted for it. I hope you win the Challenge!

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Thanks you!

I read all about your background in getting this remarkable shot! Great story!

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Thanks so much!

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Fantastic! Great shot

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Cowboy images are fairly rare here on Viewbug! Love this.

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Thanks so much, Barbara. I hadn't noticed that, but I think you're right!

Congratulations on your win. Contest Finalist in Moving Fast and Quick Photo Contest

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Thanks so much, Ester!

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Congratulations! Another win for the cowboys! WooHoo

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Thank you, Kathy. I'd love to go back to this ranch.

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Congratulations on your Moving Fast finalist!

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Great capture!!!

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Great golden hour capture...creative!

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Voted Photography Awards 2021 !!

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Thank you, Gail!

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Behind The Lens

Location

Absaroka Ranch, Wyoming

Time

Sunrise Golden Hour

Lighting

That beautiful Golden Hour Light just after sunrise set everything aglow, especially the dust, which was my primary goal in lighting.

Equipment

Canon 5D Mk III, Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM Ultra Wide Angle Zoom Lens. No tripod, flash, and just pure grit at having 40 or so horses galloping full speed toward you!

Inspiration

I was at a photo workshop led by National Geographic photographer, Jay Dickman. Jay made sure we had plenty of exposure to herds of horses, having them run across the range, directly at us, rider or riderless. Mostly I put my camera on high burst, knowing that out of the hundreds of pictures I came home with, some would be excellent. I certainly consider this one of them. Be ready well ahead of time, have a long lens and camera hanging from one shoulder and a wide angle lens and camera hanging from the other. Set your camera shutter priority 1/500, and auto everything else (aperture, ISO, white balance), high burst. Shoot RAW only (vs RAW + JPEG) because you'll get higher bursts and less buffering. You won't have ANY time to check your shots and adjust anything. The whole shoot is over in less than 2 minutes and if you stop for even 2 seconds, you've missed a lot. The horses come roaring across in front of you and you better be ready. You have to stand brave and trust that the horses aren't going to trample you. In fact, the instructions were that if a horse was coming straight at you, raise both arms and yell HORSE, and they would theoretically know to veer. And above all, bring all the courage you have that the people directing the shoot and wrangling the horses know what they're doing. Jay was the director and he was superb. The riders were spectacular and certainly knew their jobs!

Editing

Very little necessary. Adobe Camera RAW, Photoshop CC 2017, Topaz Denoise/Detail, slight cropping because everything I shoot is crooked. Of course, I had a little reason to be crooked on this one since 40 or so horses were galloping towards me and I was switching between 2 cameras, one on each arm.

In my camera bag

Canon 5D Mk III and 60D camera bodies, extra media, cleaning materials, tripod, polarizers for all lenses, neutral density filters of all strength for all lenses, 100-400mm, 16-35mm lens, 24-105mm lens, 100mm macro lens, all of them Canon L-series lenses. I change out the lenses I lug around based on what I'm shooting.

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