(1/400s, f/4, ISO100, 190mm)

After giving birth, the cow carefully licks the newborn calf, then both lean on each other and rest for a while on the sun. In Mongolia many nomads keep cows too besides their yak herds, the two species can interbreed in many varieties.

1/512s, f/8, ISO100, 70mm

In the northern provinces of Mongolia nomads do not use the traditional lasso-pole (urgaa) to catch their horses. Instead, they drive the herd into a pen, and throw a lasso at them made from leather. After this comes the saddling part, not always a success at first try. On the photo the horse is towing its future rider across the steppe, and neither of them plan on giving up.