Sunday Sept 29th

The day started with a session photographing a couple of young stallions. They were put on a strip of land between two pools of water so they just ran back and forth. The light was gorgeous.

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I know from my experience photographing the wild horses in Missouri that any time you get a couple of young stallions together they will immediately start horsing around. Hee hee. Pretty good, eh? So these two lived up to expectations. They had fun and so did we. 
 

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We then drove over to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer  where they were having their bull festival. Each town has its own traditions involving bulls and horses. This day started with a fairly grand parade of mostly the locals in their finery, riding or driving white horses. 

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When the parade was over we got a demonstration of agility by some of the younger riders. It looked a lot like barrel racing only with highway cones.

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Then Cecile rounded us up and we walked to the edge of town to see the gardians bring in the bulls. The tradition in this town is for a phalanx of riders with the bulls inside ride through the streets. The picture below shows them heading into town.

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About 30 minutes later they all came back. The picture below shows the bulls in the phalanx.

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Back to Patrick's for lunch.