In the previous blog I was talking about Landscape Photography and how I need a LOT more practise with it, well the result of some of the images are below, please leave any feedback on them, the more feedback the better I learn!!!
As you can see from all of the photo’s, they all involve horses in some way! I really need to get further out in the paddock where there are cattle and no horses in site!
One of my Black & White Landscapes!
One of my color Landscapes.!
Another Color Landscape including Ferret the horse!
During this time we drove down two directions of the paddock and I managed to get some barb wire photo’s and a landscape shot that looked great in Black & White and didn’t contain any type of animals just the road back home!
A Black & White image of the road back to the house.
Barb Wire Photography!
^ I LOVE the texture from the photo above the grass did an amazing job! ❤
Also Last Night I spent a lot of time writting about an Agventure for Stephanie’s blog which you can read below and at the attached link; http://stephsagventures.com/2013/01/14/entry-4-the-super-cows-by-sandy-bauer-aus/
My Name is Sandy Bauer, I have lived on a cattle station for eight years now (going onto nine). We first came to Brunchilly for a holiday to visit our Nan and Grandad, but that visit turned into a job opportunity for my dad as a loader driver.
Brunchilly Station, far from anywhere
When we first came here my sister (8) and I (6) thought that it was the loneliest place in the whole universe, we had to stop fighting with each other and try and make friends out of each other because we were the only kids. My mum became our teacher as we attended school at Katherine School of the Air. By this time dad had become the bore mechanic. This meant that he had to make sure that every motor and monohead on the place was pumping water and if not he would have to find a way to fix it!!
Fixing bores to so the cattle always have water
Living on a cattle station was a BIG change. We went from living not far out of Toowoomba, going to Emu Creek State School and riding horses in tiny yards to living an hour and a half from town, doing distance education over the radio and having endless space to gallop our horses around.
One of the station roads
Over the years my sister and I have built up our confidence with working with cattle, we learnt low stress stock handling, how to process weaners and how to rear poddies. Poddies are calves that don’t have mothers, because they died or mismothered. Now I am in year 10 and my sister is in year 12.
At the start of 2012 the company introduced the SUPERCOWS to Brunchilly. These are our stud cows. We aim to breed and grow our own bulls that have a good fertility rate, and this will also save the company money each year.
To get the records that we need/want for the stud, we have to go out each day and catch the new calves, put a tag in their ear with their mums number so that we know who the mum is when the calf turns into a weaner (when they are old enough to not need mum). We also weigh the calves so that we can get a birth weight. All this stuff doesn’t sound too important but in the long run it will help. We tag them so that we can do DNA tests on them later and match the calf to each bull. We get the calf’s weight so that this can help us to work out an EBV (Estimated Breeding Value), and to have an idea of what type of weight calves the calf will have, when it is older.
A lot of the time calf tagging is not a hard job, but you do get some really angry mothers. One day we got seven calves and we were about to catch our eighth calf but as we jumped out to grab it the mum decided to have a go at us. We kept trying, but this only resulted in Max running around the Hilux three times and jumping back in. We kept trying only to fail again and again. We were about to give up when we decided to try one last time and we finally caught her off guard so we tagged the calf and weighed it but during this time the Hilux had stalled and the batteries were not about to be nice to us and start working. We ended up sitting in the car for 10 minutes trying to call my dad to bring the jumper leads out and start the Hilux, while we were sitting in the car the cow was standing right outside the window and even though her calf had walked away. She just didn’t want to move, every time you moved just slightly she would come at the car. When dad had finally come out he had to park the cars bull bar to bull bar so that she couldn’t get in between them, and jumpstarted the Hilux. Dad climbed back into the Toyota through the passenger seat as she was standing right beside the driver’s door waiting for him!!!
She was the most exciting cow that we have had in the SUPERCOW stud last year and hopefully I don’t meet her again!! – Even though the holes in the paddock make the job hard the best thing about it is learning more in depth about EBV (Estimated Breeding Values), helping put out lick, tagging and weighing the calves, doing semen tests on new bulls and of course seeing the just born calves… not to forget bringing home all the ones that have been mismothered or their mum has died.
Well, the above gives you a bit of an idea of what my family does, where I live and what I love to do. If you would like to see more photos’ please feel free to go to A Little Piece of Heart Photography on Facebook.
If you liked my Agventure please check it out at the link above during JUNE to vote for my entry! or feel free to enter your own Agventure!
Now to the Next part of this blog, during December 2012 we went on Holidays up to Darwin, this Holiday involved going to the beach and visiting friends, during the time we were at our friends place I managed to take some photo’s of their Furbabies which I am really impressed with because my furbabies are camera shy and don’t usually hold still enough for long enough to get a great shot that I would get englarged and framed.
A Seagull at one of our beach stops!
A Landscape shot from out Beach Visit!
Another Oceany Landscape that I took in December 2012.
This is Morton, one of the gorgeous dogs I got to photograph
Rusty another gorgeous dog that I got to photograph
One of the other gorgeous dogs I got to photograph!
I am currently extending my range of Iteams that you can buy using my photography, you can now get Greeting Cards, Mugs, Calanders or Iphone Cases. If you are interested in any please contact me on alittlepieceofheartphotography@yahoo.com.au or facebook message me on my A Little Piece of Heart Photography Fan Page.
some of the images below are sample Iphone Cases.
Image (c) A Little Piece of Heart Photography.
Image (c) A Little Piece of Heart Photography.
And last but not least my new puppy almost has her eye’s open, her name will either be Molly, Mary or Missy – What name do you think suits her?! I like Molly! ❤
Molly, Mary or Missy?! ;O
ALPOH Photography 