What’s Up With The White Stuff? December 19, 2012
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature.Tags: cows, sleet, snow, Windsor MA
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Inquiring minds want to know:
Apparently these Wee Beasties weren’t in the moooood for sleet. 😉
Dairy Cows, . July 8, 2012
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature, Love and Death, Politics and Society.Tags: BGH, Canon 24mm f/3.5L TS-EII lens, cows, dairy cows, Elliot, GMOs, monsanto, Shelburne MA, tilt-shift photography
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Dairy cows lined up behind a fence, expecting (demanding!) to be milked:
The farmer showed up on schedule ( these grrrlz were a bit ahead of him,) dropped the electric fence, and lead a bovine parade up the road to where their udders would be relieved of their burden.
These local dairy farmers work really hard for their bread, with NO days off, obscenely early and late hours, and not a lot to show for their Herculean efforts. Consequently, they’re dwindling in numbers, and soon, if we don’t all pay attention, all of our dairy products will come from large corporations.
Monsanto manufactures the BGH which makes these shy beasties produce more than the normal amount of milk, but also makes them prone to infections. Hearing of problems with their genetically-modified milk producers, Monsanto commissioned a study, which concluded that their Bovine Growth Hormone injections for dairy cows resulted in a significant amount of blood and puss in the milk we drink, the milk we feed our little children. Monsanto addressed this problem by buying the study and burying it.
I’m not gunning to ruin anybody’s day with this kind of news, but rather trying to help us all understand what we’re up against, and how directly it affects us and our families.
Support your local farms, lobby the FDA for tighter controls on GMOs, and resist corporate take-over of our daily lives.
Your children thank you for getting aboard this train.
Thanks to Elliot for this shot; I got the swing wrong and missed the focus on the Dear Ones at photo right, but got a really productive depth of field right down the middle. I see hand-holding “snapshots” with a tilt-shift lens as kind of a crap shoot which sometimes achieves my goals, sometimes comes close, and sometimes falls flat on its face. In this case I came close, and the result is more than acceptable.
Farm And Field. August 20, 2011
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature.Tags: cows, rain
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So, rainy evenings might spoil a picnic, but they serve us photographers well. There’s drama and contrast to read about, albeit with light low enough to fret over. Here are a trio of Farm Shots for your consideration.
A rake on a rainy evening:
Curious cows want to know, “Who goes there!”
They followed me to the nearest fence to pose for this shot,
Sweet girlies, those.
What a bunch!
Random Summerage. July 6, 2011
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature.Tags: barn, cat tail, cows, farm, fog, parot, river
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Got a longer cord and ditched the wireless connection for now, so I’m back.
Here are some random/assorted shots which have come in since last I posted.
Cat-tails “flowering,” with the male pollen head fat above the still-green seed head:
Thistles in a nearby field:
A honey bee putting the love on a milkweed flower:
An unexpected sight on a picnic table by Rowe Pond:
His Lady was throwing a ball out into the pond for her pair of Golden retrievers, who were happily swimming around amongst a flock of geese while I played with this cutie.
A trio of shots from down on the farm – a recently hayed field greens back up:
A barn window watches over some Dianthus, Northern bedstraw and Sensitive* ferns:
*Thanks to jomegat in comments – TCR
…while ’round back, a curious herd is skeptical about my intentions:
And of course, the requisite shot of evening back down along the river:
That’s the last few days’ haul, such as it is, and I’m off to bed.
G’night.
Up Country. February 26, 2011
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature.Tags: barns, cows, dams, horses, rivers, Salmon Falls, Spring, trucks, winter
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Trucks sleep up in the fields of Shelburne after the last big storm:
Cattle daydreaming about green grass in Hawley:
A workhorse grown coarse and shaggy for the season:
…while in the valley below, Salmon Falls saves itself for Spring:
It’s a little farther along down in the flat-lands of Franklin County, but even here there’s a change in the air, a feeling that Winter is dying as Spring struggles to be born.
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