Wildlife Photo Competition 6 2014 : Entry Number 84

Black beauty meets White beauty. This is a beautiful shot where the horses really do look wild. Surely one of nature’s handsomest. You have beautifully seized their wonderful attitude, their healthy and happy lifestyle aswell as the dusty wild atmosphere. Great shot.

Hello, I am German and live in Utah, for now. I am a self-taught photographer. I knew when I moved here, that we have Wild Horses. Seeing and watching these Wild Horses is a wonderful experience & incredible! We could see there where 6-7 horses in this little herd. The white stallion you see here in this image was the band stallion. Off to the side a bit, was this black stallion and his brown mare, always off to the side, but always following. We figured the black stallion was trying to steal the white stallions band or become the leader or just try to steal a mare from him. All of sudden the white stallion charged at the black stallion to basically tell him to stay away. Wonderful scene to watch, I grabbed my backup Camera, since my primary camera had the large lens on, that would have not worked, since we were to close. The camera used was a Nikon D40 with a Tamron 18-270 mm. I shot in RAW, the setting was, Iso 400, EV 0.3, f/6.3, 1/500, handheld! Thank you for choosing my images!