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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: tom b on October 21, 2010, 08:18:22 pm

Title: It's all about the tongues
Post by: tom b on October 21, 2010, 08:18:22 pm

I've found that when talking about creatures of the bovine type it's all about the tongues.


(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffdIOaF8Hrg/TMDUvMmTaMI/AAAAAAAAAuE/tVS3B6LncEo/s1600/brangus_10.jpg)


Cheers,

Title: Re: It's all about the tongues
Post by: tom b on October 21, 2010, 10:35:22 pm

These images were taken at Bundanon, Arthur Boyd's property that he left to the Australian people.

On a previous trip I had stayed for a week at Riversdale another Boyd property. On that occasion I got to see a cattle sales day and they were going to sell off young bulls. There was a lot of butting heads and I took this image:

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffdIOaF8Hrg/TMD0fjlTxNI/AAAAAAAAAuU/G-1DONOe6IU/s1600/brangus_01.jpg)

So when I planned to stay At Bundanon I wanted to see if I could repeat this shot. Slow shutter speeds and plenty of movement. Reality kicked in when I realised that I wasn't getting any action. Then the penny dropped, there were no bulls in the fields that I had been shooting, they were full of cows and their calves. What I ended up with was a completely different series, that is, cows tongues. Shot on low shutter speeds they are not technically perfect but they convey the 'action' that was happening whilst I was there.

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffdIOaF8Hrg/TMDU2Axq2wI/AAAAAAAAAuI/PVCRwGOh-ws/s1600/brangus_05.jpg)

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffdIOaF8Hrg/TMDVGb16TCI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/7SPPCJ4uf88/s1600/brangus_13.jpg)

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffdIOaF8Hrg/TMDU_UaJKTI/AAAAAAAAAuM/Bpu1YREWYeY/s1600/brangus_12.jpg)

Here too I had a temptation to clone out the chaff on their faces but it is a reminder that New South Wales has had nine years of drought and I'm happy to say that we are finally drought free.

Cheers