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Confidence. Yo is subtle, and often gets pushed aside by the bolder fillies. Here Pea is chewing on my hat while Yo works up the courage to join in the fun. Pea was born in the back yard, but Yo was wild for seven years. #wildhorses #horsesofnewzealand #confidence #confidencebuilding

Definitely renaissance painting. Love that light.

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Entering the round pen at liberty with R+. Yo (the horse) gets a treat for coming into the pen and another treat at the end of the training session. She has good treat manners; she sees me open the container of carrots, but stands still and nickers for me to come closer with those carrots, please.

Gandalf from the animated lord of the rings, wearing a grey robe, and a blue wizard's hat while he raises his hands in conjuring something up and the image is captioned "ooooooo self-doubt and self-loathing are over oooooo you're capable and worthy and sexy ooooooo"

Good morning✌️🍀

Letting Lalia lick the car. Oftentimes, horses are expected to get on a trailer without ever having been allowed to investigate things for themselves. Mmm road dirt. #naturalhorsemanship

Why did my brain go to "shower party"?

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Lalia says good moooooorning!
3 am in New Zealand, 6 sec iso 6400 f/2.
#photography #horses #horsephotography #milkyway #nightsky #astrolandscape

Keep it up!! Grateful for your work

Omg WHAT are you doing?
Also, pre-exhaustion starts the minute that flight is booked 😂

single sentence story winner right there

First liberty neck yields from Yo and Pea :). Looks easy but it took a minute. The horse is trusting you to be on both sides of its head and is yielding its head to your direction.
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Roy Ayers? Sorry, new to Bluesky, but meant to comment on a post about Roy Ayers' death?

Aaaawwwww, he wrote my very favorite song. RIP and come back soon!

A horse silhouetted in the night sky, blurry, with another small horse in the background.

Lalia at 5 am. Two of the three horses were sleeping and when I got out there, the third took a nap as well 😂. It's an honor but also I was like "great I'm honored now could you please get up and stand still for eight seconds in front of the milky way?" Hahaha.

A horse head silhouetted in the night sky, with the milky way in the background. This was an eight second exposure and the horse moved, so some stars and the milky way are showing through the dark shape of the horse head.

Lalia against the milky way at five am. She moved for part of this 8 second exposure, which is why some stars and the milky way can be seen through her head. In the opposite corner, the other horses moving around. #photography #horsephotography #astrophotography #nightsky #milkyway

@hcvt.bsky.social, building positive associations. If they like the grooming tools, grooming later in an organized way should be easy. Whereas if I focus on them standing still, letting me touch sensitive areas, etc. too soon, there is tension. Kinda winging it but that's my theory.

Sweet Pea, foal of a wild mare, discovers the cury comb. Sorry for the shaky camera, I was holding it in my other hand while energetically rubbing this horse, who is leaning into it with a surprising amount of force. But look how happy she is! I will worry about them standing still later.

Sweet Pea discovered the curry comb (a nubbly brush of soft rubber, you rub it in circles to loosen dirt) and she is *obsessed*. Yo likes it to, but Sweet Pea gives me the sense she'd like to be in an entire car was made of curry combs. Film at eleven.

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Yeeeks!!!

Ooh!! I think they're bangin!!!!! What do you think?

And you saw it from the start!!

YouTube video by Gamilah Unbridled The most FERAL horse we'd ever met! - This was his last chance...

Gamilesh Unbridled, a great liberty trainer in Texas who works with rescue horses and young people, is starting this youtube channel! I'll be watching for sure :). This is the kind of drama I can get into.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5XL...

Finally got this complicated liberty exercise with Yo. She stands still and I fan a circle around her with the lunge whip. So proud of her! This is exercise one in Hannah Catalino's liberty horsemanship program. @hcvt.bsky.social

My five month old foal named Sweet Pea is giving me a nuzzle, I am smiling, wearing a blue tee shirt, hat, and sunglasses.

Anyone have tips for posting videos? I want to upload the one that goes with this pic but I seem to be having only very intermittent success :). Tia.
Also, cinema mode, where have you been all my life?

Wait is that criticism? I did something wrong again didn't I

We have come a long way

My recently wild mare getting some rubs :). Her name is Yo.