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Two wild mustang stallions rearing face to face in silhouette against pre-dawn blue-grey sky, dust rising between them, fine art photography by Tamara Gooch.
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The Reckoning — Wild Stallion Battle Fine Art Print

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Before the sun came up, before the range had color or warmth or any of the qualities that make it beautiful to human eyes, two wild stallions settled something that had been coming for a long time. The Reckoning captures the confrontation at its most elemental and dramatic moment — both horses fully reared, facing each other in perfect silhouette against the cool blue-grey of the pre-dawn sky, the dust rising between them the only evidence of the ground they have left behind. The symmetry of the composition is extraordinary — two forces perfectly matched, perfectly opposed, the mirror image of each other in posture and in purpose — and the silhouette treatment transforms what is in reality a violent and dangerous encounter into something that reads as almost heraldic, the two horses facing each other the way lions face each other on a coat of arms, the way warriors face each other in the oldest stories ever told. This is the moment before the outcome is decided, when everything is still possible and nothing is yet determined, and the cool, colorless light of the pre-dawn holds it in a stillness that the daylight would never allow. Wild stallion battles are among the most dramatic and rarely photographed events in nature — to capture two horses at full rear, perfectly framed against the sky, in the precise instant of maximum confrontation, requires the kind of patience and preparation that only the most dedicated wildlife photographers bring to the range. On ChromaLuxe Metal or Lumachrome HD TruLife Acrylic, the graphic power and the extraordinary drama of The Reckoning make it the single most commanding and conversation-generating statement piece in the entire wild horse collection — a natural companion to Dust and Gold, Warpaint, and The Challenger for collectors who want the full, unfiltered power of wild stallion life on their walls.

Limited edition of 50. Photo © copyright by Tamara Gooch.

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ULTRA LUMACHROME® HD TRULIFE® ACRYLIC PRINT

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