In follow up to my discussion of a few days back about photographing horse, yesterday I came upon this absolutely wonderful image by Walter Bieri for the EPA  showing circus artist Maycol Errani standing astride two horses.  He was in dress rehearsal for a new by the Swiss national Circus Knie in Rapperswil, Switzerland, on March 27.

A vouple of points about this photograph.  Again there is eye contact with the horse and the photographer is engaged with them.  Second the perspective creates tremendous interest making the horse huge and, of course, creating the tension as to whether the horses or the rider are the true subject.  And finally the dramatic back-lighting to me creates another worldliness.  The horse don’t seem to be normal horses.  They appear way too wooly, perhaps like something out of the Pleistocene.