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Jen Britton
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This sleepy girl is part of the herd of wild horses living on the islands of the Rachel Carson Reserve just off the shore of Beaufort, North Carolina. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
Shot from out in calm ocean water, the image is of a light chestnut colored horse taking a nap just at the edge of a marshy island. She is standing on some mud just a few inches from the water's edge, with march grass behind her and a light blue sky above.
November 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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A desert cottontail who absolutely cracked me up by insistently posing for portraits, in the Riparian Preserve in Gilbert, Arizona #photography #wildlife
In front of a busy but out of focus background of desert underbrush, we have a portrait of a cottontail rabbit who is looking relaxed an casual, looking over the photographer's left shoulder.
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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A few views of the fan favorite stallion Flax, a resident of Theodore Roosevelt National Park
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A chestnut stallion with a wide blaze, four white stockings, and a long tail stands in a relaxed posture, situated facing right to left in the frame. A grassy slope rises behind him with a light blue sky above. The chestnut stallion is walking on an oblique angle left to right, small in the frame and with a grassy slope rising behind him and the top of a badlands formation in the distant background. The stallion is walking purposefully up a grassy hill in a setting of rolling prairie hills, with a bit of blue sky above.
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Assateague Island pony foal N2BHS-MW Magical Haven, the kid of Susi Solé and Billy Bob, going into his first winter, last year. The light at that moment was *chef kiss*. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A bay pinto pony colt, about 6 months old, is wearing his winter coat and standing on top of a grassy beach sand dune, facing right to left in the camera so that we see his left side. The sky is blue and cloudy.
November 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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A cremello fellow with blue eyes, in the Heber herd in Arizona's Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
This image has light tones and features a white horse walking out from behind a pine tree in a pine forest. His head is low and relaxed as he casually looks for his next bite of grass.
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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This dingdong completely missed the aurora borealis that visited Pennsylvania last night. I'm better prepared tonight and am planning to head north from Philadelphia to hunt some lights. This image is from October 2024 in the Loyalsock State Forest.
This is a wide-angle image of a clearing in a forest, taken at night. We can see a field of stars against the aurora borealis, expressed in shades of purple.
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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This sweet lil birb is a rock wren, who I met last year in Arizona's Sabino Canyon. #photography #wildlife #birbs
A wren is standing on the ground in an arid ecosystem - there is a tuft of dried brown grass and the ground is made up of small gravel. The bird has a light buff breast, reddish underpants, and a mottled brown back and wings, with a brown stripe across the eye that we see. It is facing left to right in the frame.
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Some big feelings in this Onaqui Mountain HMA stallion!
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A blue roan stallion wearing a record of battle scars is shown in a knees-up, front part of his body close-up - he is posturing at another stallion who is off camera - his neck is arched and his right front leg is raised as he paws the ground. The background is a dusty slope and you can see another horse behind him in the background.
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Gizmo was one of my favorite Assateague Island ponies. She was killed by a hit-and-run driver this year. The National Park Service won't enact meaningful road speed regulation and continues to sacrifice the ponies so that fishermen speeding to the OSV won't get mad.
#photography #wildhorses
A bay pony with a winter coat and long mane and forelock is standing in the frame such that we see the front half of her body from the knees up. She is standing facing the right side of the frame but looking straight at the camera. She is standing in a flat landscape of green and brown marsh grass. In this image we see the whole bay pony with a winter coat and long mane and forelock. She is standing at an oblique angle to the camera, facing the right side of the frame. She is standing in a flat landscape of green and brown marsh grass with a light blue sky above.
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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While I was sitting on the ground in the Little Colorado HMA in Wyoming watching some bachelor stallions bounce around, I noticed movement at ground level, off to my right...this cute lil Wyoming ground squirrel was studying me!
#photography #wildlife
The scene is ground level in an arid grass and sagebrush landscape. A light brown colored ground squirrel is sitting up on her haunches and looking around. This is a closer-up image of the ground squirrel, shot at ground level such that we are looking through sparse grass to see the squirrel sitting up on her haunches and looking somewhat towards the camera.
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Just chillin on the beach of Sable Island with these gray seals
#photography #wildlife
Three gray seals are lying together on a beach with thunderous ocean surf in the background behind them. The seal in the center of the image is reclining with her flippers in front of her as she looks at the camera. Next to her is a seal with a mottled fur coat, and a plain gray seal behind her.
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I'm so glad I got to spend time that spring with the mighty Thor of McCullough Peaks.
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A black and white pinto stallion gallops through the frame, through sagebrush and grass, with his mane and tail flying. He is fully stretched out in his stride. There is a black and white pinto mare standing in the background, and snow-capped mountains in the distance. Among sagebrush and with a low mountain ridge in the background, a black and white pinto stallion with a pink muzzle and unruly white mane stalks in an oblique line towards the camera, in a sagebrush landscape. There is a mostly-white pinto horse behind him. This is a shoulders-up black-and-white portrait of a black and white pinto stallion with an unruly mane and forelock. He is standing at an angle facing the camera, looking somewhat to his left and past the camera. The image shows the texture of his coat, with scuffs and scars. The black and white pinto stallion walks in an oblique line towards the camera, from left background to right foreground, in knee-high sagebrush. His head is low and relaxed. There are three horses out of focus in the background and a low mountain ridge in the distance, with a light blue cloudy sky above.
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Thread Nebula update #15
Blues have arrived in the nebula! Well, it's dark blue at the moment so it's hard to distinguish from black in a photo.
Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula, in cross-stitch
#crafting #crossstitch #astronomy
A white Aida cloth is folded on two sides. A cross-stitch pattern extends from the left side to create an almost solid mass of browns and reds filling half the folded cloth. The project is sitting on a butcher block style table top.
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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A pronghorn mom in the Onaqui Mountain HMA in Utah, with an ADORABLY tiny fawn #photography #wildlife
In the foreground, a pronghorn doe is walking away from the camera as her very new baby fawn toddles along behind her, such that we see the fawn's right side. They are in an arid grassy landscape with some brown mountainsides rising in the distant background. In the foreground, the pronghorn doe is facing away from the camera while looking slightly to her right, while her tiny fawn stands behind her looking at the camera. The pronghorn doe and fawn are now trotting right to left in the frame, with a view of the brown mountainside behind them and a corner of blue sky.
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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This beautiful filly lives with the Shawnee Creek herd, among the wild horses of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways in southern Missouri. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A rose-gray three year old filly is standing in an almost knee-deep field of grass, with a line of oak trees in the background and a corner of blue sky above. She has a blaze and is generally facing the camera while looking off to her right. The filly is standing broadside to the camera view so we see her left side, and she is looking at the camera. The filly in question is walking slowly with her head low, selecting her next bite of grass. She is moving right to left in the frame, about to pass by a gray mare with a bay foal at her side. They are in a grassy field and the line of oak trees is in the near background. The gray filly is striding purposefully right to left in the frame, with her left leg forward in the stride.
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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A wild burro, and a rainbow
A rainburro, if you will
#photography #wildburros #bonkersforburros
We have a close-up head and shoulders view of a fuzzy wild burro, lit with a warm light, who is situated in the right side of the frame and looking to the left, relaxed and alert with her big ears pricked forward. She is standing in a landscape of rolling hills covered with prairie grass. The sky is steel-gray-blue with a rainbow rising up behind the burro.
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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I'M STILL FANCY THOUGH BYEEEEEEE
The palomino stallion is taking a great big step away, continuing to scoot away from the chunky bay stallion, who is coming to a stop as he has won the little scuffle - the bay's neck is arched in fun triumph. Dust continues to puff up from the ground.
November 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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WHO'S THE BOSS OF YOU NOW
The palomino has gained a length of distance between him and the curly bay behind him. As they run in a stumpy, dust-raising way, their manes are flying.
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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RUN FASTER
The palomino has wheeled suddenly to his left, with his legs looking very disorganized, the bay stallion still right on his heels.
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Y I K E S
With dust clouding up behind them, the palomino is caught with all four feet off the ground as he takes off running, the bay right in his wake.
November 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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TWO SECONDS TO START RUNNING BEFORE I TAKE A CHUNK OUT OF THAT NICE BUTT
The chunky bay stallion is looking at the palomino, who is poised to start running vaguely towards the camera. We can see how stout the bay is, and how short his curly tail is. He has an alert and mischievous expression.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I'M VERY PRETTY HOWEVER
The palomino stallion is caught in a perfect rearing moment with his front legs suspended in front of him, while the bay stallion has sat back on his haunches, coming down from his rear.
November 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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RWARRRRR
The palomino and bay are now rearing and pawing at each other. The bay stallion is clearly bigger and taller, and also tougher, and we can see some of his battle scars and scuffs. His face looks intent. The chestnut is now standing behind the palomino but heavily invested in the scuffle as he looks upwards at their faces.
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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YOU READY TO RUMBLE
The chunky bay stallion has now parked himself between the palomino and the chestnut. it's ON.
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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WHO IS BIGGER NOW, PUNK
A stocky bay curly-haired stallion has busted into the middle of the palomino and the chestnut and is now challenging the palomino while the chestnut colt nibbles at his haunches. The palomino is in a half-rear.
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM