Window To His Soul

A few months back, I did a "study" of all my horses' eyes. This is my closeup of Shawnee, my gray horse you see in my thumbnail. His pupil and iris are streaked and warped from Uveitis - a chronic condition that can eventually cause moon blindness. Shawnee is now blind in this eye, so his pupil is now "moon colored". But, he is so good, he's still humming along like he always has.

This photo was not "retouched" as art. Although it looks posterized, it was not.
All I did was push the structure bar in Viveza to the hilt a couple of times. And up the contrast quite a bit. The scene you see reflected in his eye can be clearly seen in the original. But, I wanted to make a strong statement, as this is an eye fighting for it's life! Thank God, he just went blind and we did not have to remove the eye.

I think all my horses' eyes are beautiful. They all have very big, kind eyes...but this one's been tormented for about 10