Could there be a better name for a place in Wyoming than Deerwood Station? My wife and I had gone there late one September to see the Wild Mustang herd. They are a Mustang Eco Sanctuary so it gives you a chance to see wild mustangs up close. They are a BLM permitted ranch to provide an area of safe plains for the Mustangs to roam free. So you can see the symbol of the American West up close. What was funny and very unexpected is that after we exited the four wheeler that the ranch guide took us out to location in, a couple of the horses kind of adopted me and followed me around like a companion dog. I think we got there, to location during their morning siesta.
The cloud structure did actually happen like that, BTW. I could see what it was doing and waited, and prayed, for the clouds to open up as they were moving across the sky and spill direct sunlight onto the horse corral while the heart shaped cloud was above entry to the corral. For those that wonder, so many BLM areas in the west have so many wild horses that the land cannot support the horse population. It is illegal to feed, medicate or provide veterinary care to the horses. So when the population over grazes the land the horses either starve or have to be moved to a location where their needs will be met. They round up the equines, sell them off to ranchers or haul them to sanctuaries like this where they can live out their lives as wild animals the best way that wild horse can.
For this image I used a Toyo 45A camera with a Sinaron 150mm lens. A #21 Dark Orange Filter and Kodak T-Max 100 film. I scan my negative using an Epson V750 Scanner.
And BTW, There are no mares at this ranch. Only gelded male horses. I was astonished at how very gentle, docile and curious they were. Since they have never been mistreated in any way by people, there is no fear of people. I am sure, however, that that all would change the instant any man tried to put a saddle on one.