H. A. N. W. E. everyone!

Beautiful sturdy pony enjoying the spring grass.

Thank you, Ronald and sorry to have confused you. It's a shot from high summer!
My Fuji Finepix 100 pocket digital has always been 15 or so months out with the date! Experts haven't been able to sort it out so I just have to accept it!

Now, I don't know what I was thinking. The date says August, but the vegetation doesn't look to me like high summer.

Superbe compo

Thank you, Boro!

très belle image andy !!

Beautifully captured. They do like their food.

Indeed! Nature's lawnmowers!

Many thanks, Dominique!

Schitterende opname,Andy
Prachtige pony.
Beste wensen en een prettig weekend.......Frans.

Excellent shot! HANWE!

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Andy. what a fantastic photo. the view is awesome, but the little Shetland takes the photo interest for me. What a great job with this view, and the framing. well done Andy.... Sarah

HELLO GORGEOUS

DO YOU MEAN ME OR THE PONY, PAM?
:o))))

oh mon dieu , il me fait penser à "Polly" la série de mon enfance
Bon WE Andy

Tout beau !

Chrissy,
Udo,
Nick,
marianek,
Aschi,
Frans,
William,
Sarah,
Pam,
Pte,
Daniele,
Julien,
Manfred,
Very many thanks to you all!

Lovely animal picture Andy.

A lovely capture of the pony and landscape, Andy.

delightful !
many thanks, same to you !

HFF. . Nicole.Très belle photo.

WOW, so sweet !! Belated HFF, Andy ! H.A.N.W.E. !!!

Wow, Andy, very nice shoot, I like it very much!
Congratulations!
Happy New Year !

A super shot Andy. Something about these little horses :)

Das Pony fühlt sich in dieser Landschaft wohl. Dir ein schönes Wochenende, Andy!

A beautiful little pony, Andy. Do these ponies have owners or are they wild?

A bit of both, Betty. I think they are 'managed' by English Heritage which I presume is a publicly funded quango, but I'm out of touch with these things in the UK as I live in Spain (and these things seem to change all the time).
They roam freely within a gated area. Every so often, they are picked up and transferred to another site in Cornwall so that their lawnmower skills can be put to use!! I only know this as a fact because I saw them rounded up at Godrevy one time and on my next walk saw my friends happily munching away above Ralph's Cupboard again and they don't move quickly enough to have gotten there under there own steam!

Thanks, Andy ! For you, too !

Does Thelwell know you've found one of his ponies! ;-))

A charming little pony. Beautifully taken Andy!

Thelwell taught me everything I know about ponies!

Schitterende opname Andy,,,prachtige Pony
zou je nog een stuk mee op zijn rug kunnen rijden.....

Indeed you could! Thank you, Fred!

A beautiful pony.

Splendid capture with a magnificient landscape, really a great photo !
all the best
Fabio

Very many thanks, Fabio!

Excellent landscape image and a lovely little Shetland Andy

Ho Ho Ho!

8-o
This pony is two ponies, isn't it?
I mean to see a bit of a back and the beginning of a bottom behind that fair one. But where is the rest? Stands it really so simultanous, that it is covered completely by the front one?
Beautiful capture by the way.

HA!!!
By there hangs a tale, Leon.
When I posted this on Pano many years ago, I had forgotten that I was convinced that I saw 2 ponies when taking the shot. I then forgot all about it until AFTER it had been on Pano for a few months when I suddenly saw what looked like a second back and I half-remembered seeing 2! I mentioned this on Pano and a lively debate ensued. Most people insisted that I was mad to see 2 ponies but I still suspect that you and I are correct and that the first pony almost (but the word is 'almost') obscures the other. One factor against our theory is that the second seems to throw no shadow and also that these ponies do have an indentation running down their backs - but in our favour, not that deep! Also in our favour is the fact that the colour is different.
I have thrown this open to ipernity members, by altering the notes and adding it to the Puzzle Group!!!!
Very well seen, Leon!!!

Wow he's got a full tummy!!! He's a gorgeous looking animal and he does seem to have a great grazing field with a superb view too!

The sea is right behind me, Jenny!
Yes, they do seem to do rather well on the lush Cornish grass!

Lovely pony and a grand view!!

An excellent shot Andy and many thanks for posting to Fur, Fin and Feather.

Terrific shot Andy, very nicely composed,

Best wishes, Doug

Love these ponies Andy and I feel as though there are two ponies in this shot. Like the others, I see the curve of two backs and perhaps two tails (?). When all is said and done it is still a mystery! :)

Thank you Chris! On Pano the response was that 9 out of 10 said it was only one pony. I see their point but I think there are two!

Wish you a happy sunday, Andy!

l believe there are two ponies, for we can see two backs very well and two tails!
The capture is superb Andy! !!!!*************************************************************

Thank you Helena! On Pano the response was that 9 out of 10 said it was only one pony. I see their point but I think there are two!

what a fun mystery! i'm going with 2, but totally see how it could be just one. love shetland ponies - got to meet one once. here it is, north of Lancaster:

Wow! How cute is this one!
Thank you, Laura! How's your wrist by the way?

Pienso que ha de comer por dos. ¡Que hermosa crines y cola rubias! Y el pueblo a lo lejos.

I think it's two, but if proof were given that it is definitely one, then I would accept it gracefully!
I wish my memory were beter . I wish I could say: 'This looks like one pony, but I know it is two'. Alas! I can't, because my memory is faulty!

Excellent.

Lovely capture Andy !!

I have quite a few shots of deer Andy where the one in the foreground almost completely obscures the one immediately behind it, but there is always some clue. The legs will never completely been aligned, the head and neck also. The dip in the back that suggests two is just a dip in one poniy's back not two.

Lastly the shadow is just of one pony, in my humble opinion.

All that really matters though is it is a beautiful beast

Lovely pony! I believe it's a pregnant female.