Horses of Corolla, #2

I've been spending my time during the Christmas Holiday printing, finishing up print exchanges, and completing portfolios.

Here is one attempt at a series of three images from North Carolina last summer. Mile long beaches, by which I should have spent my entire time there, because it's really the only part of the island that's interesting. Everything else has been commercialized into looking like any suburb in wealthy parts of the US, which means it has no real character anymore. The beach is timeless. AND it has wild horses! And that's cool. I love these animals, and managed to make a small series of three images in the five minute encounter I had with them.

Thank you for looking!

- Thomas
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Location
The Outer Banks, Carova, North Carolina/Virginia
Paper & Developer
Lith print on Fomabrom 112
Thomas, I love it! So peaceful and serene. Ahhh. Memories. Years ago, in the 60's and early 70's, I surf fished on this same stretch of beach during the late fall months. There was no commercialization then, just dunes and the surf! We had to have a 4-wheel drive Jeep to get there. Then, along came progress!

Cheers,

Gene
 
Just plain beautiful! The photograph clearly reflects the wistfulness for an era that won't come again.
 
Damn Thomas, horizon in the middle...horse in the middle...does this break the composition rules? I think it works, great print that I would love to have hanging on my wall.

Best, Jim
 
Absolutely georgeous!! I have no good adjectives that can express any better. One to be proud of for sure. I'm in awe, really
Erik
 
Thomas: this is a great presentation of a wonderful subject. I have to agree with you that the beach on the wild horse reserve is the most interesting place. We stayed about 5 miles or so south of this area, and there was a nice pier jutting out into the water, and on the way to the Cape Hatteras lighthouse is an old lifesaving station that has some great character if they had not put a chain link fence around it! I think the character is there, you just have to look harder for it, and find it in vignettes instead of the grand vistas that it probably once was.
Best,
Dan
 
I think the way you have handled this is what it really takes to deal with something like this; any attempt to make the composition less symmetrical, to change the location of the horizon, etc. would not have worked well, because it would seem like an affectation. So often, amateur (not in the correct sense of "lover" but the vernacular meaning) looks like target practice, and it takes a certain courage to do these uninformed conventional constructions with intention.

We keep hoping to run into the wild Kiger mustangs in Oregon. So far, the only ones we've seen have had people sitting on top of them. C'mon out here, Thomas, we'll take you to the Steens!

Larry
 

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