I am a long time collector of Robert Vavra's books of horse photography. I have every one of his earler works, and in them, every page is a treasure.That is why I took the chance of ordering this book sight unseen. It was a gamble and I lost. In Mr. Vavra's earlier works, page after page would be filled with gorgeous horse photos. In this book page after page is wasted on photos of extreme closeups of parts of horses: the extreme closeup of an eye, the tip of a nose, the end of a flying mane. Not just a few of them, but literally half the pictures in the book look that way. Very artsy, I am sure, but not what I wanted. There are only a tiny handful of really beautiful horse photos, of the quality I have seen in his ealier books. This is not a good book for a lover of horse photography. I would suggest finding one of Mr. Vavra's ealier books---they are fabulous and worth every penny. This book was not even worth the postage to ship it.