Ready for My Close Up
by jerseyjim

Comment:
Gosh, this looks like the kind of horse everybody likes. Great markings and trappings.

Eye Eye
by cogerox

Comment:
Fascinating. I feel pulled into this long shadows time of day and the soft nosed communion of horses.

Fair Parade
by vtruan

Comment:
Excellent composition. Somehow photos with riders have more energy, and this is a great example.

New Shoes
by dainmcgowan

Comment:
Beauty and story and the kind of black and white that sends me.

Unfettered
by lynnesite

Comment:
This is gorgeous. I put it very close behind my 1st choice (which made the 2nd page, btw), both very sexy shots.

Equus Burchelli Antiquorum
by Mr_Pants

Comment:
Totally amazing. This is indeed a picture.

Portrait of Bill
by banmorn

Comment:
Very fine black and white. Works well with the background and with a horse named Bill.

On Patrol
by K3Master

Comment:
This may not be exactly pretty, but in fact it is astonishing, and it has to do with the combination of rider and horse. There is a tension, an energy. (Strange that my favourite in the challenge involves a rider, perhaps less obviously than in this one, but the relationship contributes enormously to the force of both photos).

Blaze
by pamelasue

Comment:
Head on portraits aren't easy, but this one is very pleasingly done.

"Where's the fun?"
by CEJ

Comment:
Very arresting. Very well composed, and all the hair/s shown to great advantage and purpose.