A blue roan wild stallion with a small star marking and a glossy coat walks peacefully from left to right in the frame, in a somewhat flat expanse of sagebrush and grass, under a light blue sky.

Check out the absolutely gleaming coat on this blue roan stallion, who is part of the White Mountain herd. It suggests just how well suited these landscapes are for horses, who co-evolved with these spaces. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

Each of three images is of a solid looking wild bay stallion with a couple of white socks, in the Sand Wash Basin wild horse range which is an expanse of sagebrush and grass with low mountain ridges in the background, under a light blue cloudy sky. In this image, the stallion is trotting calmly from left to right in the frame.

Here, the stallion has stopped in knee-high sagebrush and while his body faces away from the camera at a left to right oblique angle, he has turned to look over his right shoulder, ears pricked forward with curiosity.

In this third image, the stallion is broadside to the camera, facing left to right in the frame and looking at the right side of the image. His right hip is cocked as he relaxes.

I met this guy hanging by himself in Sand Wash Basin. He's got a little hint of curly in his mane and it makes me wonder how often Salt Wells Creek genes end up in Sand Wash Basin, they are not super far apart. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A flashy chestnut pinto stallion with a fully white face and blue eyes is executing a prancing right turn towards the camera, neck arched and ears pricked forward as he tries to impress another stallion. His setting is the top of a grass and sagebrush covered hill, which falls away behind him, while in the background a low mountain ridge steps down from the top left to the right of the frame, under a light blue and slightly cloudy sky.

This incredible boy is Teton, a lieutenant stallion in the Salt Wells Creek wild horse community #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A chestnut horse with a blaze and a chestnut pinto horse stand alongside each other, facing opposite directions, so that they can scratch one another's backs with their teeth. Their setting is a grassy plain dotted with sagebrush, and a low mountain ridge in the distant background under a light blue sky.

Bachelor stallion pals loving on each other, in the Lost Creek HMA
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The image shows big sweeping island dunes covered in tall green marram grass, with a light blue sky above. Small in the foreground to show the scale of the scene, a liver chestnut pony stallion is trotting after three dark chestnut mares, with his ears pinned back.

Everything about Sable Island is spectacular. Here, a stallion is having THE hardest time herding his mares to where he wants them to be.
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A chestnut foal with the beginning of "foal goggles" as her first foal coat starts to shed around her eyes is following her rose-gray mom through a sagebrush setting, with a nearby low ridge in the background as well as one in the distance. A couple of other bandmates stand in the background as well, a black and a gray horse, both out of focus.

A little one following mom around, in Sand Wash Basin
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Three horses - two bays and a black - are standing apart from each other in green dune grass, and in the left and somewhat distant background a lighthouse with a black and white diamond pattern stands. The sky is pastel blues and pinks of early morning.

Wild ponies and the lighthouse at Shackleford Banks, North Carolina. I only had a couple of days there, last spring, and I was so happy to be able to get this classic scene! #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A small dark bay horse with a long shaggy mane and a small star marking is walking at a left-to-right oblique angle towards the camera, alongside a pond with water reflecting blue in the light, with a small spit of grass covered ground in the background. Tall and out of focus grass in the foreground partly conceals the horse.

This is a closeup of the same horse, still traveling left to right in the frame with ears pricked forward and appearing calm and relaxed. Still a bit of tall out of focus grass softening the foreground and the pond behind him reflects blue.

This lil fellow is part of the community of wild horses living on Sable Island, which is out in the North Atlantic ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia. #wildhorses #photography #wildhorsepc

With a backdrop of a stormy-gray cloudy sky, a low mountain ridge, and a broad valley covered in sagebrush, two wild horse stallions stand face to face, muzzles touching and necks arched. One is a palomino and the other a chestnut. Under the chestnut's neck we can see the cremello stallion Julian looking on.

A couple of bachelor pals in Julian's band, in Salt Wells Creek. That's Julian standing behind them. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

Three wild horse mares for #Stunday. McCullough Peaks, Wyoming.

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A lean gray stallion is trotting through the frame right to left, in a high desert setting with a line of mountain peaks in the background under a clear blue sky. The stallion is looking relaxed but focused, with his ears pricked forward at whatever he is looking at out of frame.

This image shows the same stallion a few trot strides later, with his right front extended in the stride.

Onaqui Mountain HMA and this PERFECT boy
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A closeup of a muscular palomino stallion with a blaze, traveling left to right in the frame as he climbs a hill with the out of focus slope of another sagebrush covered mountainside in the background

The stallion is standing still now and looking towards the camera with ears pricked forward and looking relaxed. The image pulls away to show his whole body including his tall hind socks.

This very handsome guy is part of the Salt Wells Creek herd. On this evening, I'd just found the very big group of bands that travels together in this HMA and they immediately climbed this lil mountain so up I went along with them, thanks guys. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

Two stallions - one chestnut and one black and both splattered with dried mud - are standing face to face and affectionately snuffling muzzles together. Their setting is a gently sloping expanse of sagebrush with a cloudy blue sky above.

The stallions have paused to notice the photographer and are looking at the camera in curiosity!

Bachelor stallion pals, Little Colorado HMA
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In a flat and arid grass and sagebrush landscape, with a mountain ridge in the distant background under a storm-cloudy sky, a band of mares and foals trots and canters right-to-left in the image. Leading the band is a young chocolate brown mare with a days-old foal cantering at her side to keep up. Behind them we see a gray colt, a silver-gray mare, a bay yearling and bay mare, a white-gray mare, and a black foal, all trotting in the brown mare's wake.

This colorful band of mares and foals live in the Lost Creek HMA in Wyoming #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A black stallion with a wide blaze is walking in an oblique angle right-to-left towards the camera, with the steep side of a layered badlands formation taking up the left side of the image.

Nine wild horses are facing the camera, with a couple of blue roans, a gray, and a bay in the foreground, walking towards the photographer in a shallow eroded basin among rolling prairie hills. In the background there are four more horses - a couple of bays, a chestnut, and a red roan - standing on the edge of the basin

Marty and his band, in Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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With a red-dirt slope in the background, a bay three year old chases a smaller and younger buckskin colt. The bay has caught the buckskin's tail in his mouth and they both are having fun. Just behind the bay, there is a mature bay stallion taking a snooze.

Scampering time at McCullough Peaks as two wild horse youths do a chasing game plus GOT YOUR TAIL. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

Situated in a barrier island flat with tall green dune grasses, a chestnut pony with a dark dorsal stripe is facing away from the camera but craning his head around to look over his right shoulder back at the camera in curiosity. The background is mostly clear blue sky.

One of the resident ponies of the Rachel Carson Reserve, coastal North Carolina #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A bay pinto pony stallion with a crooked blaze and blue eyes is walking casually right to left in the frame, between sand dunes sparsely covered in tall brown dune grass. There is a stand of pines in the background under a clear blue sky.

Here the same pony continues his stroll across the dune, caught in the walk stride with his right front leg out in front.

Assateague Island's blue eyed boy N10O-J Dewey
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A pretty bay mare with a wide blaze trots across a prairie grass landscape with badlands formations in the background and a cloudy sky above. A small dark bay foal with a similar blaze canters along behind her. They are moving right to left in the frame.

This is a closer-in image of the trotting mare with the foal cantering behind her. We get a better view of the badlands behind them and now we can also see a fence crossing the prairie.

Along the north border of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Bear and Elkin pop along after their band. This was from 2022 and I'm not sure whether Elkin was pulled from the herd or not in routine population control, but probably. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A dark bay horse in her winter coat and with a small star marking is shown head-shoulders-forelegs is in the left foreground of the image, with another bay horse out of focus in the background. Their setting is a woodsy area near a creek, with a branch seen above and a snag of fallen branches in the right of the image.

A few of the wild ones of Placitas, New Mexico, where a herd of horses lives in and among the town, frequenting private property and popping around on the town roads. I kinda want to move there. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A chestnut pony in his winter coat and with a long-ish shaggy mane is casually strolling across a sand dune that is dotted with seasonally brown dune grasses, with a clear blue sky above. He is moving left to right in the image.

The same pony is now in the right side of the image, walking generally towards the camera, ears pricked forward as he considers which clump of grass he will graze on next.

This young man is the Assateague Island pony stallion N2BHS-AIOS Ray of Light. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

Two wild stallions

Handsome wild stallions Trilos (in front) and Starsky having a discussion last summer in Stewart Creek, Wyoming. Trilos is a pintaloosa, the only one I know of in this herd. #carolwalker #wildhoofbeats #wildhorses #wildhorsepc #equinephotographersnetwork

In a barrier island dune setting, with tall lush dune grass, a bay pony with a faded mane and forelock trots across the image foreground. We see his body above the knees and hocks He has a thin blaze and his ears are pricked forward and his mane and forelock lift in the wind as he trots towards another pony stallion in the distance. The sky behind is light clear blue.

This spicy fella is part of the wild pony community on Shackleford Banks, one of North Carolina's barrier islands. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

The image looks up a slope to a band of wild horses, about eight adults in chestnut and bay, with a foal behind them, under a clear blue sky. Towering over them we see two tall pylons of a major power line, with buttressing cables reaching to the ground and transmission lines cutting across the sky.

Four horses - a couple of bay roan mares, a chestnut roan foal, and a dark bay pinto stallion - walk in single file from left to right across the image, in a sagebrush setting under a clear blue sky. Two tall pylons of a power transmission line loom above them in the center-top-left of the image and the transmission lines cut across the sky.

A day in the life of the White Mountain herd. One of the prominent features of their landscape is this big power line. #wildhorses #photography #wildhorsepc

A wide dirt trail is seen on a mountaintop, with blue ridge Appalachian mountaintops in the background. We see a vertical "horse trail" sign in tall grass, and a tiny shetland-size chestnut pony mare with a star marking walking towards the camera, next to the sign.

There's a horse trail, and there's a trail for very tiny ponies up here at Massie Gap in Grayson Highlands State Park. This lil gal and her friends roam free between the state park and the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

Several mares are relaxing together on a grassy sagebrush mountain slope, with taller juniper-pinyon dotted mountains rising in the background. A buckskin pinto is laying on the ground to rest, a black and white pinto and a bay mare graze, and a bay and a bay pinto stand alongside.

Four pinto horses are standing together relaxing on a grass and low sagebrush covered mountain slope. A buckskin pinto and a bay pinto stand side by side, while two palomino pintos are mutually grooming and scratching each other's withers. Taller mountains dotted with pinyon-juniper rise in the background under a mostly clear blue sky.

Chill time with these colorful wild mares in the Green Mountain herd in Wyoming #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A black mare with a winter coat that has only started to shed out is walking calmly left to right in the image, in a gently rolling prairie with knee-high sparse brown grass.

This is another view of the same mare, a little bit bigger in the frame, and such that we can see the snip marking on her nose.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park mare Juniper in spring: she's got a bit of winter coat still, and the grass hasn't yet turned summer-green. #wildhorses #photography #wildhorsepc

A head and shoulders profile portrait of a chestnut horse with a wide blaze, framed by mesquite trees and creosote bush in a Sonoran desert setting. The horse is facing right to left in the frame and has tipped his head a little bit to look at the camera in curiosity.

A member of the Salt River herd in the desert of the Tonto National Forest #wildhorses #wildhorsepc #photography

A palomino pinto wild horse is doing an animated trot from left to right in the frame, with his neck arched and head low, tail streaming out behind him. His setting is grass and sagebrush with a distant mountain ridge in the background under a clear blue sky.

I think I need to add a regularly occurring Meteor Monday feature due to having a brazillion pictures of Meteor being ridiculously good looking, from my Sand Wash Basin visit in 2024. #wildhorses #wildhorsepc #photography

A chestnut pinto pony mare is emerging from a thicket of more than chest-high bayberry shrubs, surrounded by a few taller juniper trees

One of the main characters of Assateague Island, pony mare N2BHS-I Annie Laurie #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc