Linda S.

My horse's color...strawberry Roan with white blaze and white feet!

mstuhr Loc: Oregon

Buckskin.

SENSORLOUPE

Dark Bay. Just something about that Bay with the black legs, mane and tail. I raised one, half Arab. She was "Whiskey River" Altho, The color doesn't really matter as long as he or she is a good ride and your Best Friend.
Better lighting --different time of day would help. Hoping you could get the same pose!!

Szalajj Loc: Salem, NH

Years ago, when I first go interested in horses, I ran across a book in my local library titled "The Horse America Made". In that book was a picture of World Champion "The Lemon Drop Kid". He was a dark chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail who was shown in harness. Ever since then I've fallen in love with that look, but it's a rarely seen color in the show ring.

photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

Appealing image. I like black, chestnut and palomino most.

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Very good shot, I like a solid white horse.

Red Sky At Night

I asked an old horse trader this question many years ago. His answer was "Whatever color you're willing to pay the most money for". After spending 30 years breeding & showing Paints and Quarter horses I learned to understand the meaning of his remark.

mstuhr Loc: Oregon

So true. We have 3 sorrels (chestnuts), a buckskin, a sorrel paint, a bay. Used to have a red roan. The most spectacular horse i had was a strawberry roan appaloosa. His winter hair was silver. He was stunning.

DragonsLady Loc: Los Alamos, NM

As a child I loved Trigger (Palomino) but I also like Champion (Black with white mane and tail.) I also like a nice bay but then I also like/love the Budweiser Clydesdale. A pinto/paint is also appealing. Basically I like just about any coloration on an Equine.

photogeneralist Loc: Lopez Island Washington State

Seems like folks are responding to only one of your concerns. As to how the photo could be improved I think that a little space under the hooves o here i some visual support for the horses would help. Also clone out the dark object just above the mare's tail. Perhaps a little color saturation on the mare (she seems a little washed out pale)

Horseart Loc: Alabama

Favorite color? Dappled gray with black legs from the knees and hocks down and a white mane and tail as you often see in the Andalusian breed.

You asked how this picture could be improved. Personally, I would crop off the sky from the top and clone out all the colored items from the background, leaving just the grass and trees. It would be nice if there were a little more ground under the feet. Next, if you look again, your mare is not a Palomino. a Palomino has a shade somewhere between light and deep golden body with a WHITE mane and tail. Most will have some white feet also. This mare is either a true roan, most likekely red roan or a strawberry roan Appaloosa. The spot near her tail and another tiny spot or two I see might show her Appy breeding ALL apps are not spotted, though it's whar breeders hope for. She is probably shedding one of her winter roan coats. Hard to explain, but a true roan is a mixture of two colors (white and one other color) I have raised many in the last 56 years and still ride a blue roan gelding (Google "blue roan horse") They come in strawberry roan, red roan, black roan, chestnut roan, bay roan and various colors of roa Appaloosa.
The roan horses have legs, mane, tail and often the face in the darker of the two colors. (See the darker mane tail and legs from the knees and hocks down on this one?) When spring comes, roans shed a coat of white hair first, then a coat of colored hair, then anothe coat of white, then more color and they will then have a nice slick coat of the mixture. I know this because we had 77 horses at one time and about a 4th of them were roans. My blue roan has a beautiful coat of bluish silver in the summer, with a darker face, black mane tail and legs. Sorry my post is so long, but just in case you may want to know...
Very nice picture though.

hassighedgehog Loc: Corona, CA

There was a PBS program that followed the life of a wild colt that was a very pale called Cloud. His mother was a Palomino. Or the color of a white Lipizzaner.

cosmo54 Loc: Easton, PA but will travel for photos

Dark bay. My horse with his Santa hat

JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles

I like liver-chestnut , a rich golden palomino and several others. The color of the horse in your photo does not look like a palomino.

photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

Cute!