I went to the Salt River this evening for landscape images and was lucky enough to find these wild horses feeding from vegetation in the river. The Salt River wild horses have been roaming free since before 1900. It is believed that the herd is descended from the Spanish horses brought to Arizona by Spanish missionary Father Eusebio Kino in the 1600’s. (for more information see: http://www.wildhorsepreservation.org/media/salt-river-wild-horses-faq).
Unfortunately, I didn't bring my 100-400. The longest lens I had was the Zeiss-Jena 135/3.5 and so that is what I used to get these images. The colors were amazing in the 30 or so minutes before the sun set. I'm not entirely happy with them, but I'm glad I captured these beautiful animals in their environment. (Cross posted in landscape, wildlife, canon forums).
Contax 100/3.5, a99. Monasteries come and go but rare junipers live a very long time in central Tibet's few protected mountain sides. They grow very slowly at this altitude - 4800m - so these two might be older than the monastery, which is 12th century.
