'women and horses...'

"Four things greater than all things are:
Women and Horses, and Power, and War..."

Who would like to demonstrate their impressive size of the literary background and make a guess about the origin of this quote? Ok...

This was my entry to 'Photo of the week' weekly photo-challenge by @mister-omortson — week #77. The prompt was 'Horses', and I decided not no invent any bicycle. Here is a decent horse for you, hyppi-lovers:

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location:	Moscow, Russia	June 2013	natural lighting
camera/lens:	Canon 350D	Canon 50mm 1.4	raw-conv
f 3.5	t 1/60	ISO 400

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Thats actually a pretty old photo from my archives, took it nine years ago on my visit to Moscow. Occasionally my friend took me to the paddock where I used the opportunity to trigger the shutter. At the time I used Canon 350D (aka 'digital rebel') - my first digital camera, and borrowed Canon 50mm 1.4 and Sigma 12-24mm... the last one worked pretty awful in the given (poor lighting) conditions.

And below is a less fancy shot from the same set. The same location, lens and lighting -- just a different position, shot counter-light with no warm sunny lighting coming from the window. See the difference? This is an answer how much is important a good lighting... even more than the corrupted steemingcurator upvote.

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