To continue with my National Geographic adventure at the CM Ranch in Dubois, Wyoming; the goal of the Nat. Geo photographers who we got to spend every waking moment with (awesome) was to teach us how to tell a story with our photos. They wanted us to shoot in only RAW format and to shoot good enough images that we wouldn't have to crop them or do any kind of post processing. We had to turn our images in to them straight from the file where we uploaded them onto our computers.  That was very intimidating to me at first.  

After each shoot the Nat. Geo. guys would critique the photos we turned in. As mentioned in another blog post, we were only allowed to turn our best 10 images of which they would choose 5 to critique. It took at least a couple of hours to pick the 10 images that we wanted them to look at as each one of us took an average or 800 photos per shoot. To pick only 10 of the 800 images was mind bending and sort of emotional.  As I returned to my cabin each evening I was exhausted but excited for the next early morning shoot. 

I captured the following images the second evening. The horses were grazing in a beautiful meadow at the ranch and the wranglers were asked by the Nat. Geo. guys to run the horses by us a couple times before rounding them up and taking them to the corrals. After taking the horses in, the wranglers came back to the meadow and played around for a while before the sun went down. 

What do you think? Do these images tell a story? I would love to know your thoughts.