December 13, 2017
I grew up in New York City and never really had much to do with horses. (Though I do have a photo of me when I was a kid alongside a cute pony. I don’t really remember much about the photo though I do know that the pony was not a regular part of my life.)
My author’s copies of my book HORSES came yesterday. This book is a revision of the original book with new photos and new text, but I was reminded of what happened when I wrote the original book a dozen years ago. For the original book, I was photographing horses in farms in Columbia County in New York State where there were many horse farms. I was just motoring around casually, looking at horses and photographing them when I could get close enough to them from country roads. What often happened though, is that I spent a lot of time just looking and enjoying watching them. And I thought of the cowboy movies and chariot races I had read about and seen in movies. In my mind and in my book, seeing horses galloping about a field is like watching a bit of history playing out in front of you.
Here’s what I wrote in my book:
![horse galloping from Seymour Simon's book](/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/filemanager/files/Horses_Pg4-5_Galloping.jpg)
I would enjoy reading about your own thoughts about horses in your life.
![](/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/filemanager/files/HORSES_Cover_Web.jpg)
Posted by: Seymour Simon
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