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Black and white portrait of a buckskin wild horse mare in tall grass, Wyoming open range, fine art photography by Tamara Gooch.
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The Matriarch — Wyoming Wild Horse Mare

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If The King announces itself with authority and forward presence, The Matriarch earns its title through something quieter and perhaps more enduring — the deep, settled composure of a mare who has seen everything the Wyoming range has to offer and is entirely untroubled by any of it. She stands in the tall grass in three-quarter profile, her dappled buckskin coat rendered in the full subtlety of its tone by the black and white treatment, her dark-pointed face intelligent and calm, her tail hanging in a dark rope that grounds her form against the soft blur of the open range behind her. In any wild horse band it is the lead mare, not the stallion, who makes the decisions that keep the herd alive — where to find water, when to move, which threat to take seriously and which to ignore — and something of that quiet authority is legible in every line of this horse's bearing. She does not present herself for the camera so much as tolerate it, her attention elsewhere, her mind on older and more important things. The black and white treatment and the soft, natural light give The Matriarch the feeling of a timeless document — an image that could belong to any decade and any open range in the American West, which is precisely its power. On ChromaLuxe Metal or Lumachrome HD TruLife Acrylic, the tonal subtlety of buckskin coat and open sky make this one of the most quietly beautiful and emotionally resonant portraits in the collection — a perfect companion to The King and Harmony in the Wyoming wild horse grouping.

Black and white limited edition photograph of a wild mustang mare

Photo © copyright by Tamara Gooch.

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ULTRA LUMACHROME® HD TRULIFE® ACRYLIC PRINT

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