Nice shots, Tom. I go to Asseteague just about every year (My parents
live on the MD DE border) and love shooting the ponies. There are some
great opportunities for wading birds too.
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Tom C wrote:
Thanks Ann.
I found this difficult because for one, they had their heads in the
grass chowing down 95% of the time. The bright sky also made it
difficult, combined with the fact that my zoom I had with me was out
of commission. In addition to not working in AF, it appears to be
locked/stopped down at minimum aperture so when it's on the camera I
can barely see anything through it. Almost all of these are with the
31 LTD.
Despite being wild they seem acclimated to humans in spite of all the
NPS warnings not to feed or touch. I got within 5 or 6 feet of them.
I observed autos stopped with people petting them through the window.
It was worth the 6 hour RT + 4 or 5 hours there.
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:19 PM, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote:
Tom, these are lovely!
The light is just right for them, nice detail with no glaring sun. These
looked healthier than
the critters I met back in the 1980's - but I notice they are equally tame..
I still calls 'em ponies - not that they aren't horses in a broader sense
, of course. ;-)
ann
Tom C wrote:
I was going to debate whether these were ponies or horses. I guess
it's sort of like arguing over whether a lion can correctly be called
a cat or not. It seems that even the equine experts don't agree. The
people most closely associated with these horses often refer to them
as ponies, which differ from standard horses in a number of ways,
predominantly being smaller in stature. From what I read, if a foal
of one of these ponies is taken out of the harsh island habitat and
put out to a normal horse pasture and feeds on a normal horse diet,
they grow to the full stature of a horse.
I was happy I went and it was a fun trip. Of course no wild horse
running through the surf, especially not on a cold, blustery winter
day. Most of these look better if you double-click on the normal
sized image to enlarge it further.
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