Unfortunately, there wasn’t any punkin chunkin at Living Local this year, but the entire afternoon was a blast nonetheless.
farms
Running of the Cows!
Herding turkeys was a piece of cake compared with trying to move (notice how deftly I sidestepped a pun there) a herd of cows from one end of the farm to another. They didn’t really want to leave their first pasture and it was, admittedly, a pretty decent haul to the corral near the barn. Also, most of them were pregnant.
But they eventually started moving (sidestepped again!), and were rewarded by lush, green grass (somebody at the farm called it “cow crack”) in the new pasture. I got to ride in the back of the pickup truck to take these, which was fun.
Turkey Herding!
Cows!
Remy did a story about raw milk for the Tuesday paper, so I went out on assignment to the two dairy barns on the island (got a flat tire on the way; that made for a much more eventful morning than I needed). The two farms are about as different as could be, as evidenced by the photos:
Newborn Piglets!
It’s baby season on the alpaca farm where I work, and as far as I’m concerned, very few things are more cute than an alpaca cria.
Except for piglets. Piglets will always win.
Here is a newborn piglet (it’s probably fifteen minutes old) from the FARM Institute in Katama!
And here is a minute-old piglet getting acquainted with its mom:
For more piggie photos, here’s a post I made last summer about the racing pigs at the fair last summer. They run through obstacle courses and jump into swimming pools!
Beetlebung Farm
Backlog!
Meals in the Meadow, part two
I don’t usually turn my 20mm vertically, because of the distortion factor. But as David Rees says, distortion can be a good thing when it’s used with a purpose…such as, for instance, emphasizing just how big a huge one-ton ox (who kept trying to eat my camera) really is. This photo was taken at the Meals in the Meadow dinner last Saturday.
I wish there was a little more space between Adair’s arm and Jaeli’s head, but overall am pretty happy with the way this photo turned out (are you at all bothered by the feet (and hooves) being cut off? It kind of bothers me, but not enough to kill the overall image).
Long live the wide-angle (-:
Meals in the Meadow, part one
I’ve been going to more than a few fundraisers on assignment this past week. This one, the FARM Institute’s annual Meals in the Meadow dinner and auction, was my favorite. The dinner auction itself didn’t offer much photographically (despite the fact that Michele Norris of All Things Considered was a speaker), but the pre-meal happenings definitely did.
Then again, this might just be because I like taking photos of farm critters and the whole pastoral scene.
