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A couple of horses, seen roadside, while driving between Houston and Dallas, Texas.

A couple of horses, seen roadside, while driving between Houston and Dallas, Texas.

Last year I took a three-week trip, by car, to the great state of Wisconsin — my birth state. The whole purpose of the trip was to gather as many autumnal photos as I could for my personal/decorative archives and, to a lesser extent, for the purpose of licensing. I had envisioned a trip with glorious weather, foggy mornings and fall foliage galore. I got the foliage, lots of it. And there were three foggy mornings, short in duration, but exhilarating for this fog-loving photographer. The weather, however, the weather was a tyrant. The first four days in Wisconsin brought tornadoes to the southern part of the state and lashing rain with thunderous booms to the central and western cities. For two days, I was pretty much holed up in my hotel — my cameras bored to tears.

But, it started out gloriously, the road to Wisconsin. That long trek through the Lone Star State — Houston, Texas to Norman, Oklahoma — was buoyed by sunny skies, Foo Fighters music and that adrenaline one gets as they set off on a highly-anticipated road trip. There were the usual stops and shout-outs — the giant Sam Houston statue near Huntsville, the Buc-ees pit-stop in Madisonville, the drive-in movie theater outside of Dallas. And then there were the feeder roads — the lone tree on a swath of otherwise barren land, the weathered, if not fully dilapidated, barn…and the horses.

I met the horses in my photo, horses, somewhere between Madisonville and Dallas. There were a lot of them…running and playing in the sunshine. I pulled off I-45, doubled back on the feeder road, and stopped next to a fence surrounding the property to take some country-fied action shots. That only worked so long because before I could say “cheese,” a couple of them ran up to me — an adult and a youngster. The little one was curious, but not as brave as the adult. I dare say the horse was sheepish, if I may be so corny. So I took a few photos, trying to focus on that very character trait, took a few of the other horses, now grazing, and then I headed onward to Oklahoma!

I’d only have one more fully sunny day ahead of me before the rains would make their stand.

Technical Details: 70mm, 2.8f, 1/800sec, 640ISO. Canon products.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, March 22nd, 2014 at 10:29 am. It is filed under Road to Wisconsin, rural america, Uncategorized and tagged with animal, equine, farm, horses, Katya Horner, pair, rural, Texas, two, Western. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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Katya Horner, better known as "Slight Clutter" in the photography community, is a professional freelance photographer based in Houston who is as comfortable with editorial and commercial work as she is with fine art photography. Her photos have been seen in over 50 print and online publications.
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