Photo by Aga Karmol Art.
Roe deer, blending in well. Photo by Ed Browning.
Photo by Aga Karmol Art.
Roe deer, blending in well. Photo by Ed Browning.
Dale Cherry went out to Winsford Hill in Exmoor National Park and found these beauties enjoying the winter sunshine at the beginning of January.
I will tell you a wonderfull story of our last day in Exmoor National Park.
As I said it was the last day in the first days of September before heading back to Germany…
The weather forecast was really bad. Cloudy and rainy. We decided to go one more time to look at the herd, me and my group of photographers followed the last days. Not for making photos only to say goodbye to them. It didn´t take a long time to find them, because we know were they are yesterday. Because of the bad weather we mentioned that they do not have done so much wandering in the night. So it was. Unfortunately we found them it began to rain. The herd were heading in direction to the coastline and we followed them. Then it begins to be excited… The Ponies went into a forest with a lot of fern and began to eat this. The conditions for making photos are the worst. No light / brightness and rainÂ🙂. Doesn’t matter we followed them… And then the ponies let us near to them they never did before. Saying to us: Come on human, come with us in the forest there is not so heavy rain. My serial of photos shows some of my favorites photos ever that I have done from the exmoor ponies. Never thought that on this rainy day I would make nearly 1000 photos. Enjoy!
Yours Martin Buschmann
P.S. Next year we will come back. Thank you to the wild animals and the friendly people of Porlock.
The latest book in Dawn Westcott’s series about Exmoor Ponies is now available, just in time for Christmas!
Wild Herd Whispering is about the incredible Exmoor ponies as they reveal their true natures through the world of herd energy and dynamics.
You can order your copy here: Wild Herd Whispering: How the enigmatic Exmoor ponies reveal what is in their hearts and minds
The first two volumes in the series are:
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I went to Lanacre with my 3 year old. I told him to sit quietly and just watch the ponies. Soon this foal’s gentle curiosity got the better of him as he approached this little human and literally softly brushed against his head. It was pretty special and my little boy giggled with delight. Of course I was very close by my little boy and watching the foal very carefully..but this little foal was just curious about a child..that was clear. As soon as I moved it was off in a flash back to Mum’s side.
Lindsey McDonnell
In addition to our Exmoor4all Facebook page we also have a FB group which we use to run photo competitions. Fortunately many of the photographers who share their stunning photos with us continue to post in this group even after the competition has long finished. Here are the images which were posted in the past ten days:
From Moor to Sea… Photo by Croft House B&B Lynton