TotK A Picture for the Stable: All 15 Photo Quests

The Stable Association has asked every stable to hang a picture for its guests, so each stable now has an empty frame with a note: “Work in progress. Do not touch. -The Proprietor”. Examine the frame and the owner tells you what scene he has in mind. Those are the 15 “A Picture for … Stable” side quests. Every side quest is on all side quests, and the stables themselves are on horses and stables.

What does each stable want?

The table lists each stable’s picture, where to take it and the reward. The map link points at the thing to photograph; the subject name is the label that appears in the Camera viewfinder.

Every picture also gives one Pony Point. What Pony Points buy is on horses and stables.

How do you complete a picture quest?

1. Get the Camera. It comes from Robbie at Lookout Landing during the main quest Camera Work in the Depths. If you examine a frame before then, the owner points you to him: “there’s this researcher at Lookout Landing named Robbie. He was saying he has this thing called a camera.”
2. Examine the empty frame. The owner walks over and describes the picture he wants, and the side quest is added to your Adventure Log.
3. Take the photo. Aim the Camera at the subject. It only counts when the viewfinder shows the subject name with a red ”!”; then take the shot and it is saved to your Album.
4. Examine the frame again. Pick the option to show a picture and choose the photo from your Album. The owner paints a copy, hangs it, and gives you a Pony Point and a dish or elixir.

Which pictures need a certain time or weather?

Most can be taken any time. These five cannot. Sitting at a campfire lets you wait until morning, noon or night, which is the quickest way to skip time.

• Dueling Peaks Stable: Hyrule’s finest sunrise. The Adventure Log says it is “said to be visible from the summit of Tuft Mountain to the southeast of the stable.” The sun rises around 5 a.m. Climb Tuft Mountain, make a campfire on the summit, wait until morning and shoot toward the sea.
• Tabantha Bridge Stable: Ancient Columns at sunrise. Cross Tabantha Great Bridge and climb the cliff on the left to reach the Ancient Columns. A Flame Gleeok lives just west of them, so do not wander too far. Make a campfire by the columns and wait for sunrise.
• East Akkala Stable: Octorok-shaped Octorok Lake. The lake only takes the Octorok’s shape when the water rises, so you need rain. Watch the forecast beside the minimap and go when rain is coming.
• Lakeside Stable: Floria Falls on a clear day. Shoot the falls from Floria Bridge outside the stable. In rain or fog the label does not appear; wait for clear skies.
• Snowfield Stable: Bird with outstretched wings. Climb Talonto Peak to the lone cedar and look northwest at the plateau in front of Biron Snowshelf, shaped like a bird with spread wings. It is hidden while snow is falling.

How do you take the two Gerudo Canyon pictures?

Gerudo Canyon Stable has shut down, which is why the quests call it the “Closed Stable.” Finish the side quest Piaffe, Packed Away first to clear the boxes out of the stable; after that you can examine the two empty frames. Both pictures go to Piaffe.

A Picture for the Closed Stable I: Smiling Spectacle Rock. The Adventure Log notes: “The Rito who’ve flown over it say this grin is best seen from above.” You cannot get it from the ground. Go to the East Gerudo Sky Archipelago above Spectacle Rock and look down from the edge of the islands around Rakashog Shrine: Spectacle Rock forms a pair of glasses, and the platforms below complete a nose and a smile.

A Picture for the Closed Stable II: Forgotten Sword. Piaffe wants “a giant sword, which is said to be found in the Gerudo Highlands.” Launch from the Gerudo Highlands Skyview Tower and glide north; the huge stone sword stands at an angle on Gerudo Summit. A Frost Gleeok sits beside it. Land on the small hill to the south and photograph the sword from there; you do not need to fight.

Where are the other pictures?

• New Serenne Stable: Geoglyph. There is a geoglyph in the field just north of the stable. Climb somewhere high nearby, or rise in a hot-air balloon, and capture most of it. A geoglyph elsewhere reportedly works too.
• Woodland Stable: Goron soaking in hot springs. The owner wants the “famous hot springs near Goron City to the north.” A Goron is bathing in Goron Hot Springs south of Goron City; aim at him.
• Wetland Stable: Ring Ruins. The owner wants a picture that “shows the ring shape of the ruins clearly.” Find high ground on the west side of Kakariko Village and fit the whole ring in the frame.
• Outskirt Stable: Cherry-blossom tree. The tree is on Satori Mountain northwest of the stable and is easy to spot from high up. Its other uses are on all 8 cherry-blossom trees.
• Riverside Stable: Great Goddess Statue. The nearest is in the Temple of Time Ruins on the Great Plateau. The Great Goddess Statues at the Springs of Courage, Power and Wisdom and the Forgotten Temple reportedly work too.
• Foothill Stable: Daruk sculpture. Travel to Marakuguc Shrine in Goron City; the Daruk sculpture overlooking the city is on your right as you step out.
• Highland Stable: Giant White Stallion. It lives on Ibara Butte, east across Horse God Bridge to the southeast of the stable. A photo is enough; you do not have to tame it. Taming is covered on horses and stables. If it is already registered, you can take it out of the stable and photograph it there.
• South Akkala Stable: Unity Bell. The bell sits on a stone pillar behind the Goddess Statue in the center of Tarrey Town.

What do you get for filling every frame?

Each picture’s reward is in the table: one Pony Point and either the stable’s specialty dish or an elixir for travelers. When you fill the last frame, that owner says “With this bit of art, all the stables have been decorated!” and passes on a gift from the Stable Association, which includes a diamond.

If your inventory is full, the owner holds the reward until you make room; it does not expire.

Further reading

• Horses and stables: where all 14 stables are and what Pony Points buy.
• All side quests: all 139 side quests.
• Hyrule Compendium: the Camera’s other big job.