WIld Horse Images Featured on Buckaroo Boots Website

Buckaroo Boots, a wonderful small company that makes awesome custom cowboy boots is featuring some of wild horse images on their newly redesigned website. their site is http://buckaroocustomboots.com/    You can also check out new images in my wild horse portfolio at http://www.lisadearingphotography.com/#a=0&at=0&mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=4

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Wyoming Wild Horses

These are several wild horses from the McCullough Peaks herd in northwestern Wyoming near Cody.  The paints are two of my favorite horses and I have photographed them numerous times.  These  horses are bachelors with no mares of their own, at least when I was there last. The dynamics of wild horses are always fluctuating [...]

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“Gusty Day” wins 1st place in the Ex Arte Equinus 4 International Equine Art Competiton

I was pleased to get the news that my image called “Gusty Day” had won 1st place in the Ex Arte Equinus 4 International Art Competition and that another one of my images called “Wind Runners” had taken 2nd place, both in the photography division.  This is an International art contest with painting, drawing, sculpture, [...]

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Wild Horses of Sandwash Basin

The Sandwash Basin herd lives on about 160,000 acres of BLM (public land) in Northwest, Colorado. The herd is not as well know as other herds like the McCullough Peaks or the Pryor Herds, but they are quite colorful with many paints, buckskins, and duns. The genetic similarity is to the Spanish Iberian breeds followed [...]

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Tips for Photographing the McCullough Peaks Wild Horses

The McCullough Peaks wild horses are a colorful and rowdy bunch that live on public blm land near Cody, Wyoming. Many of the horses are descended from the horses of William F. Cody, better know as “Buffalo Bill” who used to turn out his horses for winter pasture when he was not running his traveling [...]

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Photos of Wild Horses at Return to Freedom

          Last month I attended another fantastic photography workshop at the Return to Freedom wild horse sanctuary.  The workshop was led by the zen master of capturing stunning photos of wild horses, Tony Stromberg.  The sanctuary’s approach to creating an environment where the horses live in more or less free roaming [...]

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Photo Shoot of Horses in Sonoran Desert near Tucson

Horses Coming Home I recently returned from a photo shoot in Southern Arizona of  horses on the Lazy K  and  theWhite Stallion Ranches near Tucson, Arizona. The desert was spectacular in late April with flowers blooming and temps in the upper 80′s to low 90′s. The topography in Southern Arizona is quite beautiful in the [...]

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America’s Vanishing Wild Horses

Wild Horses “He who would venture nothing, must not get on a horse”Spanish Proverb After a very long courtship of perhaps six thousand years, mankind finally got smart enough to realize that greater benefit would accrue from riding horses than from eating them. So, sometime between four and six thousand years ago, the horse was [...]

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Squaw Valley Art Wine and Music Show Huge Success

Every summer, the third week of July in the Village, Squaw Valley kicks off an incredible weekend of fine art, wine tasting, and great music. I have participated every year for the last four years, and this was the best show ever produced by Squaw. The music was a fantastic blend of Latin Jazz and [...]

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Wild Horses Photo Shoot at Return to Freedom Sanctuary

I just returned from an amazing week of photographing wild horses at the Return to Freedom Wild Horse Sanctuary near Lompoc, California. Return to Freedom is a non profit sanctuary dedicated to preserving the freedom, diversity, and habitat of America’s Wild Horses. The 6 day workshop, hosted by equine photographers Tony Stromberg and Kimerlee Curyl, [...]

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