Hoshedar Cooper
October 2025 - Dawn Gallop
About the Image(s)
Shot on my last trip to Inner Mongolia in China. This is a community of horse breeders that live on the desolate plains of Inner Mongolia. Rearing and training horses is what they do. They live a very pastoral life. Horses are exercised in the morning which includes wading into a body of water. The early morning light was fantastic and reflected very well on the horses which were on their morning run. Appreciate feedback from other members on the image. Specifications as follows.
Shot on my Nikon Z9, 28-400 lens, F8, ISO 1800, 1/800 shutter speed, 400 mm focal length. I think the white balance was Kelvin at 7500.
2 comments posted
Lovely time of day and perfect timing. I like the slim jim and would make it slimmer. The water at the bottom does not enhance the story and the horses are in the middle of the photo. I would crop most of the grey water out the bottom so there horses are running in the lower third Posted: 10/03/2025 21:02:28
To begin, you have captured an image with incredible visual interest - we don't often see images of a herd of horses in motion, much less in water - wow! Next, Hollywood couldn't dial up better light, and the rising mist in the morning air is its "pièce de résistance" - Hoshedar, you have such an incredible subject, story and visual interest I thought you should focus on it so in my VR I removed what I consider is eye-grabbing water and replaced it by matching the existing water - this is truly an incredible photo that I'd put that on my wall in a nano-second - your best image yet IMO. Posted: 10/05/2025 20:48:35