Goats
This week is shaping up to be animal week. In all fairness, these goats were not in Villigen. I caught them at Schloss Wildegg -- link to the English version of the Swiss national museums website -- 20 km (12 miles) from Villigen. I was there on Sunday, to visit an exhibition and market for rare and heirloom plants organized by the Pro Specie Rara group (not in English, unfortunately). Seed Ambassadors has a little write-up on PSR in English here. (Map)
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9 comments:
Great pic! I remember being very excited seeing Lynx in a similar park...not sure if it was this one.
The Total Tour started in Lausanne, went thru the B Ober. across to thru Davos, St. M and eastern S, then Malloje into the lakes/Italy and back up thru Cento Vale to Zermatt etc.
Pick up trucks? As Jilly said in her comment ..perhaps nostalgia tells lies. What puzzles me is those strange more recent Marlboro ads that showed the most awful bleak Arizona desert derelictions and associated that with maccho smoking...very odd.
On another tack....photos excite responses to texture and form, and additionally somehow incite us to sense atmospheres that we chose to read into them. I am interested by that. Couldn't agree more about -0.3 underexposure. Is it the electronics that over-read? Why do we always need that -0.3?
Nice photo and action shot.
I like your photo because it shows how adaptable Nature is. As far as chuckeroon's comments related to Marlboro smoking as being maccho reminded me that the "Marlboro Man" of olden days shown on their advertising ended up with lung cancer and was a pathetic figure only fit for the posters about cancer research.
I got hooked on smoking cigarettes when the US government provided me free packages of cigarettes in each C-ration package of food I got each day. I ended up smoking for 47 years, and ruined my lungs and got heart disease and am now an old man with many problems.
I would have been better off running off and hiding in the woods somewhere and living off the land.
I am not sure if you got there or not but if you did, thank you for visiting my blog yesterday and for your comments about my Rose-Breasted Grosbeak. I am into architecture today with the Brookville Community Theatre.
Chuckeroon: Thanks for taking the time to answer. Are you sure the lynx type thing wasn't in some farm in Graubünden, where they're native, rather than over here? It could be here, I should check out Schloss Wildegg more carefully and if they have them, well another photo op!
I haven't seen the new ads, but your description makes them sound quite terrible.
The underexposure thing. I'm using a full -1.0, sometimes even -2.0. With the ISO at 80. And also with a polarizing filter a lot of the time. I wonder if I have a bum camera...
Hey, we’ve got some serious goat aerobics going on!
I know that Swiss light is special but -2.0 PLUS polarizer??? I'd get the camera checked. However, Swiss light..... Ask Richard.
The Linx were, if I recall right, seen during a trip to either Les Diablerets or perhaps St Gallen (most likely Les D).
BTW does your polarizer revolve and give different results at 12.00 compared to at 3.00? Mine does...haven't masterd it totally, bt it's cooool.
Next BTW....oh, so you recognise bone china. Well done.
I'm probably doing something daft with the camera. Yes, the polarizer is rotateable, and should exhibit the behavior of which you speak though I haven't figured it all out yet either.
Well I quite often underexpose even more than -2. If the bright bits are really important it's the only way, but you need to postprocess a bit.
Looking at this photo I now realise why the trees in the fields and orchards all look so neatly trimmed at about 8ft off the ground!
Sorry for the lack of comments recently, but I got struck down with something horrible, and CDP was the last thing on my mind
Nice catch!
Let's hope they are not feeding on those "rare and heirloom plants" ;-)
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