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FIRST DAY OUT

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Before the light goes

Noord-Brabant · NL · 23.08.2026

My fifth day with a camera in my hands. Horses like to come up to me on their own; it has always been that way. And once you know what you’re doing, even a chain hanging against the sun is magic.

A horse’s eye up close, with a bright sky and green pasture behind. — 1/250 s · f/4 · ISO 100 · 105 mm · 0 EV

The dark outline of a horse’s head and a single eye against a pale blue sky. — 1/800 s · f/4 · ISO 100 · 105 mm · 0 EV

The closed eye of a chestnut horse up close. — 1/200 s · f/4 · ISO 100 · 90 mm · 0 EV — The only photograph I took ‘blind’. The sun was shining straight in my face and I couldn’t see a thing.

A chain on the paddock gate with the low sun behind it. — 1/5000 s · f/4 · ISO 100 · 59 mm · 0 EV — Once you know what you’re doing, even a chain hanging against the sun is magic.

Dark silhouettes of wild plants against the setting sun. — 1/5000 s · f/4 · ISO 100 · 86 mm · 0 EV

Tall meadow grass with the bright sun low above it. — 1/640 s · f/4 · ISO 100 · 24 mm · 0 EV

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