Dark Horse

 The last snow fall of the season and I had the morning off.  After dropping my wife off at work I drove home picked up my camera gear and headed south down highway 12.  As I drove past this particular pasture I notice a couple of horses and thought that could make an interesting image with it snowing.  I love horses and every time I get a chance to photograph them I take advantage of it.  So I did a U turn and pull up onto the shoulder of the road on the side that the horses were on.  I got my Nikon D90 with my 70-300mm lens out and  turned up the ISO to be able to handle any action they may throw my way on this early overcast morning.  The horses were a distance away and I figured I would need to have my lens as close to 300mm so I could to get the images that I wanted.  I got out of the vehicle and proceeded  into the ditch, stopped and took a few shots.  It was at this time that they noticed me and came running towards me.  My lens struggled getting focused on them as they moved towards me at a fairly fast clip, the falling snow was not helping the situation.  I kept on pressing my shutter release button and ever once in a while it was grabbing and would go off.  They came up to the fence where I was and I spent some time talking and petting them.  I took a few portrait shots of them standing there and then decided to move on and get some landscape images.  Later that day when I looked at what I taken in the morning I was disappointed with most of what I was seeing. One of the  shots though did get my attention as I loved the way the dark horse on the right looked. There was so much action, energy and pure wildness in the way the horse looked but the other horse was only partly in the shot and that was a disappointment.  There was no way to clone out that horse as there was just too much to clone out and cloning is not one of my strong point of editing.  Then in occurred to me that I could crop out the horse on the left on this horizontal image and make this a vertical, so that is what I did.  I love it!  This has again taught me, it's more than the crop that makes this image work, although it definitely helped a lot in this case.  It's more than good to be lucky, lucky to be good photographer making this image work but it's more about just being out there that makes this image work.  So get out there and make it happen!