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pixelsmith said:
We went to the local green house and picked up some stuff. I took a few shots while we were there.
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nearly 90F and high humidity created the atmospheric haze... or it could be methane from all the animals in the area.

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the put the bigger greenhouse on right on top of their big chicken coup.

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Winter buggy.

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love the black and white dog and black buggy so i went with high contrast black and white for a few shots.
i like them.

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very peaceful at this place. no electricity, no motors.. no internet the kids were so cute but i respected their wishes to not photograph them.
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That dog looks like my English Shepherd mix! :D What beautiful pictures, I love the black and white filter. Makes them feel very old time-y. I think it adds a touch of elegance, too! It was good of you to not push the issue of photographing their kids. I wonder if they get a lot of inconsideration from "outsiders" when they encounter them.
 
Thanks! the b/w worked well. some of the other are HDR shots and seem almost surreal.
 
So I went back to check the old cross today. Seems my memory failed me (the last time I looked was when we examined the cross as kids some 30 years ago). Turns out the year is actually 1735.

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When I was approaching, I noticed these two guys:

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Unfortunately, they have become a rare sight even here.
 

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pixelsmith said:
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very peaceful at this place. no electricity, no motors.. no internet the kids were so cute but i respected their wishes to not photograph them.
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While Nameless had some really nice surrealist grabs, and there were some pastoral mantras and natural ones from Polterwurst and Grifynne respectively, I think this one is the most striking, well this one and dyingsun's most inviting NRW door. I'm walking right into that place with a door like that.

But what I like about pixelsmith's image is that the composition of this image forgives a lot of the elements of modernity and it looks most like a picture out of time. The fenceposts in the back seem crooked like all the trees bending about the slope, and the roofline suggests earlier times as long, slow and lazy as the dog. The reflective metal signs on the buggies have been B&W neutralized into another of the many patterned rhythmic elements in this image instead of clues of the 21stC. It's a very nice time travel pic.
 
Polterwurst said:
When I was approaching, I noticed these two guys:

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Unfortunately, they have become a rare sight even here.
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We have way too many deer around my place. On a typical daily drive I may see at least 20 deer, maybe a beaver, woodchuck, possum, raccoon, red fox, eagles and more. I have totaled out 3 cars by hitting deer or them hitting me. I like to eat them.
 
Yeah, I'm sure they went out of their way just to jump in front of your car when you weren't looking for a second. They were probably human-global-warming environmentalist deer who wanted to make a point with their sacrifice. :D Poor you.

Somehow I've been spared that for 24 years of driving now, although we do have a lot of animal accidents here every year (mostly deer and wild boars). Still, if it did happen to me, I'd probably be totally destroyed because I caused the animal pain and suffering. The repair bill would be a sucker, too, of course, but that's just material damage.

Well, what can you do. I'm one of these kooks who think we should mind nature, not the other way round. I'd probably hit the brakes for a rat (although I know not to brake if there's traffic behind me, I had that once with a cat :oops: )

Happy hunting.
 
Grifynne said:
Since I'm totally Bogarting this thread right now, here is a pic of the damage they did to our lovely view of the hillside I mentioned previously. :( This was taken recently, before spring really set it (it's greener now, but the giant swath of nothingness is still quite visible):
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A like just for using 'Bogarting'.:p
 
Polterwurst said:
Yeah, I'm sure they went out of their way just to jump in front of your car when you weren't looking for a second. They were probably human-global-warming environmentalist deer who wanted to make a point with their sacrifice. :D Poor you.

Somehow I've been spared that for 24 years of driving now, although we do have a lot of animal accidents here every year (mostly deer and wild boars). Still, if it did happen to me, I'd probably be totally destroyed because I caused the animal pain and suffering. The repair bill would be a sucker, too, of course, but that's just material damage.

Well, what can you do. I'm one of these kooks who think we should mind nature, not the other way round. I'd probably hit the brakes for a rat (although I know not to brake if there's traffic behind me, I had that once with a cat :oops: )

Happy hunting.
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Yes, a few have gone out of their way to run into me. Just this spring i stopped dead on a gravel road while one stood there in the ditch... I waited.. then started moving and the damn thing ran into the side of me. 2 weeks later SAME scenario different deer... it stood there looking at me as I stopped, then as I started to drive it jumped in front of my walking speed car and I hit him enough to spin him around 180 degrees and he looked at me like "wtf did you do that for?" then proceeded on his way.

I do not like hurting animals either and have been known to slam on the brakes for a mouse crossing the road.. but when a deer causes me to total out my beloved 1972 Volvo 1800 ES and causes me to break my neck and lose an ear... i want to harm them back and eat them. This car is in Canada now.
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Ouch. That's really more like deer warfare. :confused:

I've heard similar accounts from friends who had a run-in, too. Seems like the animals mostly try to escape in the wrong direction. Once I had two of them standing in the middle of the road in dense fog (I was driving very slowly because of the weather). They got paralyzed by the headlights, so I sounded the horn, which slowly made them go their way (I guess I was lucky that their intended path was in another direction). I don't think they ever realized they weren't in the woods any more.
 
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