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Yesterday morning I visited Pagosa Springs' local horse rescue, LASSO, to take some pictures of their animals... it's about the only donation I can manage these days, my budget is running so close to red. I had a great time hiking around 60 acres of gorgeous forest on the search for a herd of geldings... who we finally found back at the barn, the little devils! It was well worth it when we finally did find them though, because they're a pretty photogenic bunch. (And we had the pleasant company of an entourage of cats as we tromped around the property in search of horses!) The late-morning light started off okay and turned increasingly brutal as the day ticked on toward noon, but I managed a few good shots.

LASSO is engaged in a hay drive to help support LASSO's own rescues and local horse owners facing financial hardship over the winter. To donate, or for more information on adoptable horses, visit their website at lassohorserescue.org

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seryn

I find these pictures astounding, but only the first time I see them. Any chance of using a cut tag?

And, just have to say, I don't think it's necessarily that these horses are photogenic, they have dork haircuts and the cat is shaped like a comic strip bully, but you managed to make them all huggable. That's got to be talent on your part.

From:

redroanchronicles

I've added a cut, thanks. I'm still trying to figure out the best way of formatting things here so the feedback is very valuable... I'd prefer not to be annoying. :D

I'm pretty sure that cat's about a million years old, so I think she gets a pass for her figure. You're definitely right about the haircuts, though. :D

From:

seryn

Glad you weren't offended. I like those dynamic cut tags so people can click to expand without having to load a different page... it makes me feel free to natter on because someone deliberately had to look.

You took pictures of animals and made them beautiful. It wasn't until I was taking an objective look that I realized they weren't really.

Now, *Jedi hand waving* You will tell me how you post the pictures without wanting to scream in frustration.....

From:

redroanchronicles

lol, well I pay for a photographic portfolio site where I can sell prints from so I upload all my pics there, and then just link directly to them with HTML. There's probably a smarter way to do it, but I'm still old-school with the hand-coding. :D

I always find rescued horses interesting to photograph... like that very white paint horse, I noticed in the pics is missing the tip of one ear. There are so many stories behind their looks, and not usually good ones. :( But like on my horse for instance, because of her particular coloration, when she gets a scar (from being bitten by another horse, for instance), the hair grows back in deep red, while the rest of her coat looks greyish. Her whole body is covered in little scars, some of them noticeably mouth-shaped... you can see she's not been a precious and pampered equine all her life! :D

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seryn

Last time I put up pictures, I saved up 7 months of knitting and spinning projects so there were a lot of them, I counted how long it takes me. Even with a big batch (so repetitive tasks can be optimized) to do at once, it still took me more than 5 hours do do 75 photos. That's taking the pictures, captioning, uploading, inserting them into a post (I use HTML too. The automated tools just suck.) It's a horrible waste of my time to bother with, but no one will even look at posts about knitting projects unless there are photos. There are people who put up pictures in their posts every single day. I just can't imagine it. You put up pictures about as often as I should. Though your pictures are better than mine.

That's a lovely story about your horse and the ginger bite marks. Though it's sad that she's been bullied like that.

I volunteer to teach knitting to children and one of the most shocking things that ever happened was the day we were talking about sheep ("which is where wool comes from") and a little girl asked me if we could use zebras or giraffes. Another girl said, "Or unicorns!" Because to these girls all animals are mythical and giraffes are actually more common than sheep because the zoo has giraffes. I've run across children who think horses and unicorns are the same thing. And the older children will say, "Well there are cattle with horns but cows don't have horns, so maybe unicorns are the male horses?"

Which is totally an aside from your post, but it makes rescue horses important because they don't look fake.