Category: Sheep
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Beautiful Pasture
It figures. The one day I really wanted a nice Mt. Lamborn shot, it’s been cloudy all day! Fortunately, the most beautiful sight is a pasture with plenty of feed and a flock of happy sheep. Prompt: Beauty is all around us. Make a photo of some naturally occurring beauty in your area today. Continue reading
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Yoda the Sheep and Pasture
Yoda looks particularly majestic today. He’s doing well for an old sheep. He’s in the front pear orchard pasture with a few other sheep. Continue reading
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Yoda the Sheep
This is Yoda, our pet wether. He is now an elderly sheep at 9 years of age. He was a bottle baby and was destined to be someone’s pet, but they never came to get him. By then, he was too much a part of our lives to put him in the freezer. Now he… Continue reading
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Summer Pasture, Rambo, and Rambutt
It’s time for late summer grazing. The bare patch in the pasture is where we burned the prunings this year. I need to find a different way to deal with the pruning debris, because it hurts the pasture when we burn it. Here are Rambo and his buddy Rambutt. Rambutt is the one looking at… Continue reading
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Soft Wool & Hard Bark
Rambo the bottle lamb is sleeping, and his buddy Rambutt is watching me. Prompt: Make a photograph that emphasizes a change in texture: smooth/rough, soft/hard, shiny/dull, etc. Continue reading
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Ram Horn
This is one of our rams. I was not as happy with the focus on this as with my other shots, but I liked the composition best. He’s giving me the evil sheep eye – we gave them wormer today, and it tastes bad. Prompt: Focus on a fragment of an object today. Make a… Continue reading
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Rambo
Rambo the bottle baby is doing great. He comes up for his bottle, then races back to his buddy and sheep mom. Ken is his dinner provider, though. He’s doing well for being flat when he first came out! Continue reading
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Moving Sheep and New Hay
We moved the sheep to the other side of the orchard today. Unfortunately, we discovered at the same time that the very new lambs can climb back through the divider fence. We managed to get them all over, but it was a bit of a challenge. Hay is finally being delivered. Our cold spring made… Continue reading
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Dinner Time
One of the new lambs is getting a quick drink. Prompt: Leave something out today. Be visually brief. Shoot tight. Make a photo that’s direct and to the point. Continue reading
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Evening Sheep Check
This is the late evening ewes and lambs check. The hill behind is on the neighbor’s property, and the big one in the far back is BLM land. Prompt: Make a photo that creates depth. Draw the viewer in by choosing an interesting foreground, middle-ground, and background. Continue reading
