An astronaut carrying a pony

The image is a wide realistic photograph of an astronaut in a white spacesuit standing on pale grey lunar dust, carrying a small brown pony on his shoulders, the pony's front legs draped over the front of the helmet on either side and its hind legs hanging down his back, the background a black sky with the blue Earth hanging low in the upper-right of the frame. The astronaut stands slightly left of centre with his knees bent under the weight and both gloved hands gripping the pony's front legs. His gold visor reflects a curved image of the lunar horizon. On the left side of the frame a row of deep boot prints leads back toward a small lunar lander standing on the horizon. In the lower-right corner a small United Nations blue flag on a thin pole stands planted in the dust. The lighting is harsh low sunlight arriving from the left, casting a single long sharp shadow of the astronaut and the pony across the dust to the right. The overall composition is wide and empty with the pair as the clear focal point, the palette built from white, grey, black and the blue of the Earth, and the mood is absurd and deadpan.