Staying true to Dr. Peter Henry Emerson's (scientifically supported) conception of human vision, I used a spot-in colour filter mounted with my Cokin filter system on my 50mm 1.8 Nikkor lens. The green of the shadows sprawled on the grass in the foreground slowly transforms into the bright white of the sky by gradual increments. The trees in the background are a supernatural white, leafless though we can see by the grass that they should be there. The oblique line just above the horse gives a definite transition between green and white, below being only shades of green, above being only shades of white.

The dark pony adds a center of contrast and seems even more saturated and healthy when compared to the oddly blanched trees.

These ponies are wild, and roam New forest of their own accord. Although they are somewhat used to human presence as many people have flocked to see them, it is still uplifting to see these animals in a natural environment, without fences or man-made borders (which have become an excessive and archaic cultural and biological instinct), wandering where they will and please, and being able to walk close to them, touch them even, neither fearing the other, neither enslaving or attacking the other. I had a great time with my cousins here and I hope someday we can return with the same group and even more of my ridiculously large family (my father is part of a family of twelve, and add to that the innumerable cousins that have resulted, and we basically have ourselves a worldwide empire).

For more information on Dr. Peter Henry Emerson and his contribution to photography, visit http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/history/emerson.htm.

For more information on the horses of New forest, visit http://www.hants.gov.uk/newforest/.