Rocky is a reporter for the International Geographic, the most prestigious travel magazine in the world. The Geographic has the highest standards for what is printed, which makes filling its pages exceedingly difficult. The lengths required to achieve these standards makes working for them likely the most dangerous job in the world.

You don't even want to know what it entails.

Because Rocky is an rocking horse, he needs a photographer that can react to rapidly unfolding events. The Geographic sets him up with the very best. Unfortunately, due to receiving fewer assignments, this has left Rocky somewhat inexperienced.

The rest of the story is in the accompanying images.

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All photo essay submissions for this challenge should set the scene. Take an object, any object, and place in a simulated scene, the effects need not be elaborate (the images to the right were made with construction paper).

Articles should also include the tag, set-the-scene.

It has to be the ultimate zebra crossing.

Eclyse the zorse is striking proof of how an offspring inherits genes from both parents - which in her case was a male zebra and a female horse. The result is shown in her amazing coat which looks like a zebra's that has been partly covered in white paint.

While most zebra-horse crossbreeds have stripes across their entire body, Eclyse has only two such patches, on her face and rump.

The 1-year-old was born after her mother, Eclipse, was taken from her German safari park home to visit a ranch in Italy.