This image was taken near Hardin, Montana on the Little Big Horn Battlefield and the riders are crossing the Big Horn River. This is literally a few feet from Custer's last stand and the Calvary are part of the Real Bird reenactment that takes place in late June. This crossing is difficult in that the water is still very high for this time of year and flowing very fast and there are several holes in the bottom so instead of walking the horses are swimming, and quite often so are the riders. The only other difficulty was putting enough insect repellant on to keep the ticks off & the mosquitoes from biting. They would still land on but not stick me.

Gear: Canon professional digital camera, 200mm f1.8 Canon lens 100 ISO and then processed using Photoshop CS3 and using the Adobe RAW converter.

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