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Just another one of those days, early in the morning while most people are still sleeping, especially when the weather is so gloomy, sometimes things happen that are subtle and yet still beautiful. The stillness before the day begins affords a meditative state of serenity, but even more interesting was, as I was experiencing that moment, a deer with new horns walked by literally in front of my Tri-pod (between where I was standing here and the lake) stopped, stared at me for a moment, then kept walking. It exhibited no fear of me, only a curiosity, and then went on with it's morning routine. Nature is such a mystery.
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A 13 mile walk yesterday from my home town of Market Harborough linking up the Northamptonshire villages of Dingley, Braybrooke, Great Oxendon and East Farndon.
I would've included Arthingworth too but decided against it as the sun was already low on the horizon by the time I'd left Braybrooke.
The walk included short sections of four long distance footpaths including the Macmillan Way, Midshires Way, Brampton Valley Way and the Jurassic Way. Baffling then that landowners don't have more signage on their land for walkers to navigate.
As it was, I'd follow one sign, get across the other side of a field only to be met with hedgerow and barbed wire and no sign of a way through or which direction to take. It was only by me knowing roughly the lay of the land and following farm tracks for some way that I was able to navigate a way through.
But I only ever return from such a walk with a peaceful mind and a glad heart.
This was taken at the pond in front of St. Clair College in Windsor, Ontario. There has been some Heron there from time to time as well.
A sweeping view from the Quiraing looking down the Trotternish Ridge in the north east of the Isle Of Skye.
I was told Lightroom does an amazing job of stitching together photos to make a panorama. I must say after using the merge I agree. This image is three photos merged as a panorama in Lightroom. I am just totally blown away.
Another shot of last weekends sunset. On looking back at the RAW images I took in the field next door, I actually preferred this shot with the old oak tree on the left third and the flock of rare breed sheep gathered to its right in the dying embers of the day!
Sunset is a wonderful experience and often you cannot predict how the sky will light up after the sun goes over the horizon. On this occasion it was spectacular for about 5 minutes before it quickly ended.
We were without electricity, hot water and heating, phones and internet for hours and hours over a three days period during a blizzard this time last year. The only lights you could see here came from candles, cars and vessels in the harbour. This photo was taken in the centrum of Siglufjörður in the morning of the 12th of December 2019.
Thanks to the Polar Vortex, today's high temperature was -15F (-26C). I have to keep reminding myself that in three months, scenes like this one will return to western Wisconsin!
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As I recover from shoulder surgery, I have assigned myself a big, major, huge project…and yes it concerns photography! My mission, should I decide to accept it (Mission Impossible reference) is to clean out and organize my 2TB external hard drive…that contains every digital photo that I have retained since 1985. The majority also have the RAW file associated with that photo attached. Files numbering in the tens of thousands that have been filed, misfiled, triple duplicated and thrown into folders as if I were dealing cards. My ADHD and sense of personal embarrassment will simply not allow this craziness to continue.
The blessing of this process is not just the discovery of photos long forgotten, but the memories contained. These files may well prove themselves to be priceless…not just for the memories depicted in the photos, but as a partner as I spent the next five weeks, the hours ahead fighting off my nemesis, boredom!
Here is one from a very good day…
You know that it was a very good day when you can remember everything about that day, the temperature, the warmth of the sun, the smell of a spring pasture and in this case anxiety of having to go to work when your best girl is about to give birth! It was the 13th of May, 2010 and our National Champion (Reserve Color Champion, 2006 AOBA Nationals) girl Rosalita was in labor. Joann and I both went to work to check in and start clearing the days schedule, both securing the day off with bosses and returning to the farm in record time.
A quick switch from work to farm cloths and a short trot to the front pasture found that Rosalita had already lost her mucus plug…her cria would be born anytime now. It was time to grab some lawn chairs, my camera and our birthing kit and just wait for things to progress. In the back of my mind, I prayed for a smooth, natural birth and that I would not have to put on the big gloves ever again and assist.
The next hour provided us with a memory of a lifetime as Giacomo would come into the world! A 19.2-pound male from Legend’s Challenger, at that time one of the top gray males in the country. The beauty of the moment, the cycle of life experience on such a beautiful May day is forever etched into my soul. Joann and I removed the remnants of the birth sack and dried our gift. The name Giacomo was chosen as it was in honor of my father who had passed some four years before. It was his childhood nickname and I know that it would have made him smile…like this photo does for me now as I utilize the editing program Lightroom to bring it to life.
This photo captures the bonding process/moment that alpaca mothers do just after birth. She gently takes her lips and nose and rub it against that of her cria, all the while making a clicking sound that bonds the two together for life. She will also use the same area to help her cria stay steady on its wabbly, minutes old legs.
What a blessing it is to witness not just the new physical body that God had created, but also the pure, palpable, natural love that was immediate between mother and son as well.
I didn’t know it then, but Giacomo would be the last cria born to us at Serene-n-Green Alpacas. In the early fall of 2010, a couple came to the farm and bought our last five alpacas, water buckets, farm name, logos, hay and trailer to start their own turn-key alpaca farm in Ohio.
Today, when anyone asks if I miss raising alpacas my response is immediate and direct. I miss birthing those babies!
Chase experiences, not things!
When it seems all is lost
Our song will find us
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We'll find our way to brighter days
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