Peek-A-Boo
by Chris Lord
Title
Peek-A-Boo
Artist
Chris Lord
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
An image that was captured while spending four days among the Onaqui Mountain herd of wild mustangs in the Rush Valley near Dugway, Utah. These beautiful animals are the descendants of Pony Express horses who were turned loose after the Pony Express company lost its contract with the U.S Postal Service. This herd of 200 or so horses roams on 43,000 acres of federal land unfortunately in competition with sheep and cattle whose owners bribe the bosses of the government Bureau of Land Management (whose mandate is to look after the land for the horses) to keep the horses low in number. Horses have in the recent past been rounded up by helicopter, breaking up families and the natural hierarchy of the herd. The mustangs are then often sold off to Mexico to end up as dog food. While we were there one afternoon volunteers arrived to shoot contraceptive darts into the mares in order to keep numbers low and prevent the BLM from its cruel dastardly deeds.
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June 27th, 2022
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Chris Lord
Sincerest of thanks to host FRANK J CASELLA for kindly awarding a FEATURE to this in the group "SQUARE ART WORLD"
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your camera art has been nominated as a Special Feature by a fellow artist Camera Art member for your superb art in Camera Art Group!! You are invited to post your art in the "SPECIAL FEATURE ARCHIVE DISCUSSION in the Camera Art group. Please share the love by nominating a fellow artist whose work is in Camera Art Group. You can do that in the specific "SPECIAL FEATURES NOMINATIONS ONLY- VOL 9” discussion in the Camera Art Group.
Chris Lord replied:
I'm much honored, many thanks to you and to my sponsor. Greatly appreciated for sure.
Chris Lord
Sending out a huge thank you to host NADER RANGIDAN for kindly awarding a FEATURE to this one in the group "FINE ART EXPLORATION PHOTOGRAPHY"
Chris Lord
Most sincere thanks to host JUDY VINCENT for the honor of a FEATURE in the group "USA PHOTOGRAPHERS ONLY"
Shoal Hollingsworth
This is wonderful. I nominated this for a Special Feature in the Camera Art Group. L/F
William Dunigan
Nice shot, I like the use of a low depth of field to draw eyes to that peeking horse -- very well captured!
Steve Rich
Your work deserves to be showcased on the homepage of "The Meandering Photographer" Please consider adding this work to the "Feature History, The Meandering Photographer (Oct-Nov 2023)" active discussion thread. (l/f on 11-3-2023)
Chris Lord
My sincerest thanks to host NADER RANGIDAN for kindly awarding a FEATURE to this image in the group "ONLY SEPIA TONED ART"
Chris Lord
A huge thank you to host FROZEN IN TIME PHOTOGRAPHY for the FEATURE in the group "WAITING ROOM ART"
Meg Shearer
: ) I love this!!!
Chris Lord replied:
This one sure did the best on Social Media! I love it too. Another one on the wall by my bed! Thanks Meg