KIMI  ‘SECRET’ FROM UNA WILD MUSTANG COLLECTION

KIMI MEANS ‘SECRET’ IN NAVAJO.  THE NAME SECRET SPOKE TO ME FOR THIS IMAGE BECAUSE OF THE INTIMATE MOMENT SHARED BETWEEN THESE TWO WILD HORSES.  AS I SEE IT, ONE MUSTANG IS WHISPERING THE UNSEEN AND UNHEARD TRUTHS ONLY KNOWN AND SHARED BY THE HERD. THEIR MAGIC. THEIR SECRET. ONLY KNOWN TO THEM.

KIMI IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME PERSONAL FAVORITE IMAGES BECAUSE OF THE MAGICAL QUALITIES AND MOMENT, WHICH IS SO PRECISELY CAPTURED HERE. DESPITE THAT I WAS FREEZING, EXHAUSTED AND READY TO RETIRE FROM A LONG DAY’S SHOOT, I WAS KEENLY AWARE OF THE ‘MAGIC’ THAT WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN ON TOP OF THE SMALL MOUNTAIN. SOME PHOTOGRAPHERS KNOW WHEN SOMETHING ‘SPECIAL’ IS GOING TO HAPPEN. AND I HAD THAT FEELING. SO I WAITED… THE SUN WAS SETTING AND THE WINDS WERE STRONG, COLD AND CONSTANTLY BLOWING DIRT IN MY EYES, MOUTH, AND NOSE.  THEN THE MAGIC HAPPENED, THE MOST PRECIOUS, INTIMATE, YET SUBTLE CONNECTION BETWEEN THESE TWO HORSES HAPPENED. IT WAS SO SUBTLE THAT MOST WOULD MISS IT. JUST LIKE ONE WOULD MISS AN EXCHANGE OF A SECRET OR WHISPER.

IRONICALLY, THIS IMAGE LOOKS AS IF IT WAS PRODUCED IN A STUDIO - WITH ALL THE VARIABLES THAT GO INTO MAKING AN AMAZING SHOT THERE IS USUALLY A DEGREE OF CONTROL TO THE ‘SET’.  THE LIGHT, BACKGROUND, WIND, AND ‘POSE’ OF THESE TWO STUNNING WILD HORSES WERE ALL ALIGNED FOR A PERFECT IMAGE - YET I WAS MERELY A STAND-BYER.  THE TYPES OF VARIABLES THAT I WAIT FOR AND AM LUCKY TO EXPERIENCE ONCE IN A BLUE MOON WHEN PHOTOGRAPHING OUT IN THE FIELD. THE TRUE BEAUTY OF WHAT MAKES THIS IMAGE SO SPECIAL TO ME IS THAT THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING CONTROLLING THE SUBTLETIES AND INTRINSICAL NATURE OF  THIS SHOT - JUST GOD’S BEAUTIFUL CREATIONS AND NATURALLY OCCURRING ‘LIFE.’

~ AND JUST MAYBE, THAT’S THE TRUTH IN THIS SECRET