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Photo of a Woman’s Commitment to Her Horse Goes Viral

Chris Gampat
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02/24/2013
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Last Updated on 02/25/2013 by Chris Gampat

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Photo via the Telegraph, from REX features (Peter Ristevski)

While perusing Facebook, I found this touching photo of a woman in Australia trying to save her horse. The story behind the image is that 18 year old Astro (the steed) got trapped in mud on a beach. Anyone that has been around horses also know that they’re not light animals–they’re quite heavy and that is why cavalry would never traditionally charge through mud. Seeing this, Nicole Graham (the women pictured, who owns more than 10 horses and runs a horse dentistry business) jumped into the mud and held the horse’s head over the mud for three hours to protect it from drowning in the tide.

A tractor and harness were able to help free the creature.

But this one gripping image (the photographer is apparently unknown and not cited on Facebook, but we’d love to talk to you) has gone viral on the web with over 11,000 likes and over 4,000 shares. The image represents the bond between a woman and her horse that she obviously cares so deeply about–and she refuses to give up on it even in the darkest hours.

Editor’s Note/Correction: Apparently this story is from last year. Sorry about the confusion. Either way, it is still an excellent photo.

Via Wild for Wildlife and Nature and The Telegraph

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.