Mara
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Facial features.
Tag: sheep
Intrusion or exclusion?
No question for a cat. Fences are at most obstacles to be traversed.
A bit different with dogs.
And – believe it or not – we humans were the ones behind the fence. And the shepherd at the back of this herd kept shouting: “Close the gate, close the gate! They’ll overrun you!”
“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”
– J. R. R. Tolkien
Linked to Travel with Intent. More photos inspired by the Tolkien quote, can be found here.
Of sheep
A man in wolf’s clothing form the palace gardens in Schwetzingen.
A wolf doing unwolfish things on a mosaic from Aldborough Roman town in Yorkshire.
A whole castle of wolves (albeit en miniature) in the Obrunn gorge near Höchst im Odenwald.
And all that to respond to a quote about sheep:
“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”
William Ralph Inge, “Patriotism”, in Outspoken Essay (1919)
Other posts inspired by this quote can be found on Debbie’s Travel with Intent quotation challenge.
Sheepish lines
Linked to Lines&Squares: #21 in October.
Brown cow, brown cow, what do you see?
Apologies to Eric Carlé and his Brown Bear for the title.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Farm Animals. More animals on the farm can be found here.
Bah – bah – white sheep
For A Photo a Week: livestock. More animal photos can be found here.
Sleepless in Germany
More oddball photos, not necessarily of sheep, can be found over at Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge.
My head is full of wishes
All the pictures were taken at an outing to a petting zoo.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: heads or facial features (human or animals).
More heads and faces and possibly noses and ears can be found here.
Plastic, wool, and feathers
“Always take more than one photo” – the reason being that a little shift in position, a different angle, a different background can change a bad photo to an mediocre one, a mediocre one to a good on.e
There is this farm where you can buy milk directly from the producer and as advertisements they put these plastic cows in front of the barn. It was snowing when I passed them and I snapped a few photos. The first one is awkward because the cow looks in the wrong direction, her head ultimately looking small in comparison to the body. The roofs peaking over the bank are in the wrong position. In the second picture this is even worse making the photo very cluttered, just as in the third shot where the background just disturbs the figure of the cow in the front. Getting close and shooting the black and white cow from below shows a portrait, it shows off the cow best but as a drawback the photo looses a lot of information.
The following shots are pretty obvious: the first one is too cluttered and getting close is the answer but I also captured the little wooly sheep from the top thus showing off his face mach better.
Last not least a series of Abigail, the goose. While all the portraits are showing off different details my favourite is the larger photo because of the angle of the head.
Cee’s Compose Yourself Challenge: Week #3 Always Take more than One Photo
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