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Nikon D200. Sigma 150-500mm lens.
Chief is a wild Sulpher Springs Mustang stallion. I photograph him every year on my sojourn to Return to Freedom (RTF), a wild horse sanctuary, in Lompoc California. After being round-up by the BLM a number of years ago, Chief had been horribly abused and then rescued by RTF. Despite his chaotic and violent history, his spirit was never broken and he is a truly noble, majestic and magnificent stallion.
He is my absolute favourite stallion at RTF and I never tire of photographing him year after year. Because I keep returning to RTF every year, patiently and quietly hanging out in his “space”, he is letting me get a tad closer each time I am there…..and he no longer runs away. I am hoping that one of the times when I return to RTF, he will let me get close enough to touch him.
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Thank you Ray!
– Sue Ratcliffe
Awesome capture and subject love it.
Thank you ever so kindly Julie…….very very much and very greatly appreciated!!!!!
– Sue Ratcliffe
he is really beautiful
Thank you most kindly Julie…….very much and very greatly appreciated!!!!! Che really is a handsoome lad……could just sit and watch him for hours!!!!!
– Sue Ratcliffe
Beautiful!!!!!
Thank you most kindly Lorilee…….very much and very greatly appreciated!!!!!
– Sue Ratcliffe
OMG…….I am so excited!!!!!!! Thank you most gracioulsy for the feaure Laura…..very much and very greatly appreciated!!!!! I am most honoured , most humbled and most grateful! Chief is most honoured too!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!
– Sue Ratcliffe
A real story there Sue; beautiful image and I do hope you can get to know him…Linda
Thank you most kindly Linda……very much and very greatly appreciated!!!!! There is nothing I would love more when I return to RTF next year than to sit in his pasture all day and see what happens!!!!! Maybe I will be fortunate enough to touch him!
– Sue Ratcliffe
10/20/2011
Whoo hoooo…….I am doing my happy dance!!!!!!! Thank you most gracioulsy for the feaure Deborah…..very much and very greatly appreciated!!!!! I am most honoured , most humbled and most grateful! Chief is most honoured too!!!!! Thank you ever so much!!!!!!
– Sue Ratcliffe
A super portrait Sue, congrats on the feature!
Thank you most kindly Carol……very much and very greatly appreciated!!!!
– Sue Ratcliffe
CONGRATULATIONS on your wonderful feature, lovely work.
Thank you most kindly Andrea……very very very much and very greatly appreciated!!!!
– Sue Ratcliffe
I can see why you would never get tired of photographing this beauty! What a wonderful capture!
Thank you most kindly Karen……very much and very greatly appreciated!!!! It is amazing that I can never get enough of this handsome lad…..I literally have hundreds of images of him!!!!!
– Sue Ratcliffe