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arturo
Username: arturo
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 4:47 pm: | |
I´ve entered The Canon Assigment.
In the nature section I´ve sent the picture of a cow sitting quietly close to the water. I was stuck by that because I was doing exactly the same thing that the cow. Thinking the same thougths probably.
http://ta.canon-europe.com/?pg=gallery&cc=es&lc=es &photo_id=foto47dec43fa7a96 |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 8:49 am: | |
It's that dab of colour behind the ears that makes it! |
arturo
Username: arturo
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 9:06 pm: | |
Glad you noticed.
They send peacocks and lions and tigers ¡Oh my! to this kind of thing. I thougth it fitting to send a cow.. |
mjp
Username: mjp
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 9:38 am: | |
That cow is probably thinking this: Reading as an instrumental activity does not put you in the horizon. If you look at the horizon long enough a peacock feather appears which spins clockwise and then turns into a purple dot, a kind of railway track of abstract time down which they eye can disappear into infinity. |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 9:48 am: | |
Most cows think that, don't they? |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 1:48 pm: | |
One so hates to see cattle unclad. Not one decent jersey in sight.
You've got to laugh, haven't you?
...Haven't you? |
mjp
Username: mjp
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 1:57 pm: | |
It's thinking all that and probably that it is not well dressed ("But oh no not slack! Oh no. Not well dressed but not slack.") But then it's thinking: Smoke is a kind of glue that falls apart everywhere except in the sixth dimension such that if you are able to smoke a cheroot there it's rocket fuel for interplanetary travel. Probably, anyway. |
al
Username: al
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 7:07 pm: | |
Cowspar David Friedrich lives!
*gets coat* |
mjp
Username: mjp
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 2:14 pm: | |
Ok so this joke has been milked. I know.
Blame the supermarkets for the way they homogenise modern culture.
Everything looks exactly the same but in the meantime life wizzes past yr. |
mjp
Username: mjp
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 3:51 pm: | |
Not that it isn't a very nice picture of a cow Arturo.
But that cow has got me thinking of John Keats for some reason. Up around the ponds in Hampstead, but which I don't suppose is where the photo was taken. Which leads me to that timeless Salinger poem:
John Keats, John Keats, John
Please keep your scarf on |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 7:49 am: | |
"Ode to a Fresian Urn," eh? |
al
Username: al
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 8:18 am: | |
Makes me think of Cowper. Can't think why... |
alex
Username: alex
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 12:28 pm: | |
This has hit a new low. |
mjp
Username: mjp
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 3:45 pm: | |
I sort of agree with you Alex.
Think of it as a mood piece. |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 8:34 am: | |
I think we've milked it enough, too. |
mjp
Username: mjp
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 9:02 am: | |
We should make it a rule on this board.
A pun should never go unpunnished.
Sorry ... |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 9:53 am: | |
No one here but lurkers, then!
Actually, we could make a fortune if we taught that cow to belly dance. There must be thousands who'd pay good money to watch an ungulate undulate. |
dan
Username: dan
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 9:35 pm: | |
I like it! My daughter is a big cow fan, she would probably stick this up on her bedroom wall (although she's more a fan of yer Fresian).
On one of the photography forums I frequent, one of the other regulars has this quote (originally written by another forum member) as their signature:
"The great advantage of taking a picture of a cow staring through a fence at you is that afterwards you never have the slightest urge to take one again." - John Brownlow, |
arturo
Username: arturo
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 - 5:16 pm: | |
Dan, having some fist hand experience on the cow-snaping bussines let me explain the reason of that quote. Once you go over a fence and you receive the visit of an enraged bull who wants to know who is that weird human on the fence with the shinny thingy you are not so keen to repeat the experience.
I do suposse that there are some daring souls out there that would consider that a great chance for an award winning snap of a close-up of an enraged bull charging after you but I am afraid that I am far too timid for that. |