horses (Abermenai Point, Anglesey)
(This is not an imaginative theme, and I am not verbose today. Have some equines.) While walking across the sand dunes, we passed a fair number of horses. I've never been an especially horsey kind of person (I tried when I was about eight because my best friend was a horse person, but it didn't stick), but then I walked past this horse. This horse was standing close to the walking trail, going about its business while attractively situated on the dune. I took a couple of pictures and then it did this: There is something that pleases me immensely about photographing an animal that's looking at me. I don't know why (possibly because I've taken a fair few photos of animals and it's only happened three or four times), but it makes me feel like I am a Good Photographer who has Accomplished Something, more or less regardless of the quality of the actual photograph. I couldn't hang about long because the walking party was marching on, but I ma...