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A white-gray wild horse walks left to right through low sagebrush steppe along a fence made of log upright posts and wire mesh topped with a strand of barbed wire, down a gentle slope. In the background we can see the "basin" of sand wash basin, a vast bowl ringed in the distance by a low mountain range.

The image shows a gray seal in banana position, facing away from the camera towards the greenish water at the surf line but twisting her head around over her right shoulder to look back at the camera, with a peaceful expression.

Two sleepy horses together on beach sand under a clear blue sky: a bay with socks and stockings over on the left, and on the right side of the image a light chestnut ambles away.

On a gently sloping hill covered in knee-high sagebrush in shades of tan, brown, and green, a black horse with a small star marking walks on an angle towards the camera from the left side of the image. We catch him mid-stride with his left front leg swinging forward. he looks at the camera with ears pricked forward. The strip of sky in the top of the image is light blue with faint clouds.

A chestnut pony with a small star marking stands at a butt-to-camera angle in the right side of the image, looking over his left shoulder towards the left side. He looks on-alert with barely contained energy. His setting is a sparsely grass-covered barrier island rolling sand hummocks under a clear bright blue sky.

A white pelican with orange feet and black wing tips is soaring in flight, wings stretch straight out side to side, in the lower third of this image and traveling right to left. The background is the steep brown side of a mountain range, with a small strip of blue sky in the top right.

An aerial view of the shore of an island, with the shoreline oriented horizontally. The bottom third of the image is blue-green surf water with patterns of white foam in the waves. The middle third is a strip of beach sand with a wrack line, and the top third is the bright green of grass covered dunes.

A small sparrow with mottled brown plumage is small in the frame, situated in the roughly top left of the composition, sitting on top of the sagebrush shrub that takes up the whole bottom two thirds of the image. In the background is well out of focus rangeland vegetation in blobs of green, tan, reddish, and brown.

A scene of the sonoran desert at night, with some boulders, saguaro cacti, and paloverde in the foreground, dim in the low light. Farther back we see a long ridge of the mountains crossing the image, below a dark sky dotted with stars. The sky grows brighter just above the mountains at the right edge of the image.

A bright red small songbird with black wings, a black stripe over its eyes, and a short black bill is perched on a horizontal mesquite twig, oriented to face sort of right to left on an angle towards the left side of the image but also looking over its left shoulder to look towards the right side of the image. That's a lot of left and right sorry. The birb looks sassy, let's say. The background is another couple of mequite twigs with a tangle of out of focus twigs and sky further back.

A liver chestnut foal, about 6 months old, is standing on a hummock on the slope of a tall grass-covered sand dune. The foal is situated in the lower-center of the composition, standing facing left to right but turning his head to look over his right shoulder. Around him 3 other horses are grazing, including two chestnuts at the top of the image and a small chestnut at the bottom left.

Several horses are grazing, with one standing with its head up in the middle of the image, strongly backlit by an intensely white sunrise. The sky around the sun is rich orange and yellow, coloring the whole scene including the silhouetted horses. The center horse blocks a direct view of the sun, with light rays scattering around her.

A closeup of a gray burro looking straight at the camera, long ears forward tuned in to the photographer. We can see the cross marking across the burro's withers and shoulder and the stripe down her back, and her tiny forelock stands straight up between her ears. Her background is the steep slope of the top of Box Springs Mountain under a clear blue sky.

In a desert environment, a wide packed dirt walking path crosses the lower part of the image, flanked by a steep vegetation covered slope in the background. A javelina is walking casually across the path from right to left.

A small dark-gray songbird with a short dark gray bill is perched on a slanting reed stem in the right side of the image, back to the camera and turning its head to look towards the left side of the image. The background is a mass of out of focus stand of green reeds.

This is a backlit scene of a chesnut pony with a blaze cantering in the lower center of the image, as she pops along down the long gentle slope of a grass covered dune running along after her family band. The sky is a bright white-orange shot against the sun.

Shot fairly low to the ground, the image shows the burrow mound of a prairie dog family. A mom prairie dog is sitting upright on her haunches, at attention, in the right side of the image. Over in the left, five of her youngsters are in various positions also on the burrow mount. Standing upright, crouching low, looking in various directions. Their setting is sagebrush and grass.

A blue roan stallion with a dark face and a coat dotted with scuffs and scars stands next to the edge of a water hole surrounded by bare earth. He faces right to left in the frame and his neck is arched high, weight back on his haunches, and his right front hoof is lifted high as he paws the air and the dirt.

A bay mare with a long mane, forelock, and tail and a small star marking is standing slightly rump to the camera, facing right to left in the frame, alongside a gray friend who is standing behind her, with just her face poking up over the bay mare's back. The gray is looking with some curiosity at the camera. They are in a setting of a rolling sagebrush hillside, with a steep mountain in the background alongside a blue sky.

A small single-tier waterfall in two sections occupies the center-left-left of the frame, as it tumbles over and around large boulders into the calm surface of a river, and surrounding the falls we see a forest of mostly eastern hemlocks with a few deciduous trees in autumn yellows. The upper right corner of the image shows a light blue sky.

Small in the frame, a palomino pinto wild horse stands in the lower right quadrant of the image, standing on an angle somewhat towards the camera and looking over his right shoulder towards the left side of the image. The wind is picking up his mane and forelock. His setting is an expanse of knee-high sagebrush, with a dark low mountain ridge in the distant background under a cloudy blue sky.

A close up portrait of a coatimundi, showing its head, neck, upper shoulders. The coati is facing left to right in the frame as it looks upwards towards the upper right corner of the image. It is surrounded by the branches of a myrtle tree.

We have a medium sized gray-brown songbird with a curving bill who is perched at the top of a saguaro cactus - the image just shows the top of the cactus, with a clear blue sky background. The bird is perched such that it's facing more or less right to left, with its head and bill facing upwards.

Two wild horses stand atop a grassy ridge, under a light blue partly cloudy sky, with a shrubby tree on the right side of the image. There is a black horse with a blaze, and a bay mare with a blaze stands on the other side of him from the camera. They are facing left to right, the wind picking up their manes and tails a little as they also swish tails against flies.

A zoomed-in closeup of a big mature black bear who is reclining in some tall grass and weeds, capturing his head and shoulders as he looks up from a little nap. He is facing right to left in the image and looking slightly towards the camera, with his mouth open a little bit.

This is a series of three images just moments apart - a close up of two wild stallions, meeting in the middle of the frame and posturing with each other. The left horse is a red roan pinto and the right horse is a curly cremello. In this one, the pinto is propping with his front legs, head high to stay out of the way of the cremello horse's waving front hoof, as he returns to the ground from a rear. The image is very warm with sunset light and we see the top of another mountain ridge with patches of snow in the far background, under a dramatic deep pink-orange cloudy sky.

Amid a stand of reeds and a desert riparian plant with white fluffs, a bobcat sits upright looking a little bit sleepy. She is partly obscured by the fluffs, and oriented such that she is facing right-to-left in the frame.

Several wild horses - bays and chestnuts - are standing together, some looking towards the camera and some looking at something off-camera to the left. They are in just below knee-high sagebrush with a clear light blue sky, and the stout stabilizing cables of a big power line extend from above the frame to the ground behind the band.

With tall brown winter-season grass in the foreground, a coyote is standing facing towards the camera and looking slightly to the right side of the frame, looking for possible prey in the grass. In the background we have a dark tangled out of focus stand of mature trees. The coyote has soft looking golden brown fur.

Among a desert bloom of yellow flowers and short grass, a young light-brown-gray burro foal covered in baby fluff walks right to left in the frame, trailed by two chocolate brown family members.

A blue roan stallion stands facing left to right and somewhat oriented towards the camera, in a setting of rolling prairie and short green-yellow grass with a cloudy sky. The wind is picking up his mane and tail a little bit, and we can see the scars and scuffs from past fights in his coat.

Walking from right to left in the frame, three horses make their way across a butte covered in short stubby grass, with some badlands formations in the background under a lightly cloudy sky. A young bay mare with a blaze is followed by a tiny bay foal, and a muddy black and white pinto stallion brings up the rear.

Two tiers of a modest sized waterfall drop down into a rhododendron-filled woodsy gorge. We are seeing the scene from below the lower tier. It is snowing and the rhododendrons alongside the falls are covered in white, and snow has settled on the trunks of trees flanking the top of the waterfall. The creek bed shows through a rich red-brown and the shutter speed allows a silky look to the water as it tumbles.

A beautiful liver chestnut mare with a same-color foal at her side walks left to right through the image in a flat of short yellow-green grass. The sky above them is a stormy rich gray-blue, and we can see the silhouette of a mountain range in the distant background.

A flyer opposing the Australian government's aerial shooting of wild brumbies in black and orange AI tones and black, red, and white font. The image of the horses is hideously contrasty and there is a 500 word essay worth of multiple text bullet points.

In the right side of the image, a mule deer doe is facing away from the camera at an angle towards the left side. She is looking to her left towards the left side of the image. She is standing among a stand of reeds and cattails that are taller than her, and we see a strip of a cottonwood tree line at the top edge of the image in the background.

A great horned owl perches up high on the sloping trunk of a mesquite tree, behind a tangle of sticks. The owl is looking up towards the coopers hawk.

A white ibis steps through very shallow blue tidal water, through short grass poking up through the surface. The ibis is in the lower right corner of the image and in the background there are three ponies, out of focus, grazing the fresh grass. Further in the background we see a stand of reeds.

This is a close-up of a wild bay pony with a long shaggy mane and forelock. She is facing left to right in the frame and looking towards the camera, her mouth full of green grass. Her left eye is blue. She is standing on top of a dune in knee-high grass and in the background we can make out an out of focus cloudy blue sky.

In a sea of short green grass, a black tailed prairie dog sits upright and at casual attention, facing right to left in the frame, with her paws hanging relaxed in front of her.

Each of these images are in close sequence of a very fuzzy and PAINFULLY adorable burro foal walking left to right in the frame, in different phases of a walk stride. The foal looks perky and cheerful. The setting is the Sonoran desert of Arizona during a particularly dry time - the ground is brown, with brown rocks and a dry and brown palo verde tree takes up much of the background, with a clear blue sky coming through the branches.

Each of these images are in close sequence of a very fuzzy and PAINFULLY adorable burro foal walking left to right in the frame, in different phases of a walk stride. The foal looks perky and cheerful. The setting is the Sonoran desert of Arizona during a particularly dry time - the ground is brown, with brown rocks and a dry and brown palo verde tree takes up much of the background, with a clear blue sky coming through the branches.

A coatimundi is seen at the top of a myrtle tree among the vertical twigs. It is perched sitting upright and holding on to one of the twigs as it picks and eats the deep purple berries.

A stout looking bay stallion with a visible snip marking is snaking his mares with his head and neck stretched out low. We can just see the hind ends of a couple mares at the left side of the image. The setting is the prairie-grass-covered top of a butte with a pastel-cloudy sky.

A head and shoulders portrait of a jackrabbit who is sitting upright, relaxed and with big round eyes. Her ears are upright and each turned outwards. Her fur is light brown and her background is out of focus light green grass.

Three mares start to fan out as they walk towards the camera. Dark bay lead mare to the left of the frame, bay with blaze up the middle, and other dark bay veering to the right.

This series of images was shot just before sunrise, so the sky is striped with pastel blues, pinks, and purples. The setting is a high altitude pinyon-juniper forest, with junipers widely spaced. A band of horses walks mostly single file towards the camera, which is shooting at a low angle. Here in the first image a dark bay mare is at the front of the line, walking quietly. We see parts of another dark bay, a black horse, and a reddish bay in the line behind her, all out of focus.

Against a rich orange sunrise sky, with a marsh in shadow at the bottom of the image, three silhouetted Canada geese fly together from right to left in the frame. They are caught in a moment as all three have their wings swept up in their flapping cycle.

Each of these four images features a pretty palomino mare with a blaze and her days-old black foal. Here the mare is head-down grazing while her foal totters beside here, to her right. There is a steep mountainside dotted with junipers rising in the background above the sagebrush landscape the mare and foal occupy.

A small liver chestnut pony mare with a long mane and swishing tail is walking on a beach flat from between two dunes dotted with sparse grass.

Three wild horse bachelor stallions are doing SHENANIGANS together. here they are all standing on all four feet but coiled and ready to spring at each other in a play fight. There is a chestnut, a dark blue roan, and a buckskin pinto.

The image looks across some shallow beach water to a narrow beach bumped up against a tall dune with bright green grass on top. Four wild horses have paused in their single-file walk along the edge of the water: a bay, two chestnuts, and a black horse. Above it all, a rich blue sky with a few clouds.

This image is shot at ground level, and features a black throated sparrow perched on a smooth river rock on the ground, surrounded by shoots of green grass and other small plants.