Vacas Lindas (Cute Cows)

willard3willard3 Registered Users Posts: 2,580 Major grins
edited July 30, 2014 in Wildlife
I was asked to show cute Jersey cows are by a cheesemaker who uses their milk.

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  • Hunter58Hunter58 Registered Users Posts: 723 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2014
  • EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2014
    Sorry, but imo, packed in a factory is neither cute nor "Wildlife".
    An outdoor setting may have been a better choice to present the animals.
    Eric ~ Smugmug
  • willard3willard3 Registered Users Posts: 2,580 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2014
    Glad you liked this, Hunter.

    These cows are at Dutch Hollow Farm, one of the most awarded creameries in the country for treating their animals well. You may have some bad associations with dairy farms, Earache, but you have somewhere else in mind.
    It is better to die on you feet than to live on your knees.....Emiliano Zapata
  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2014
    These cows out in the open with sunny green hills and fluffy clouds in blue sky would make better shot.
    They would still not be wild life but they would at least feel like they are roaming.
    JMO.
  • EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
    edited July 22, 2014
    You seem to have missed the point...
    My comment refers to whether, as a viewer, I perceive your stated, qualified, objective of conveying "cuteness" in these images.
    As I commented, IMO, the setting and compositions do not succeed in this regard.
    Contrary to your assumption, I have no opinion about this, or any other dairy.
    Eric ~ Smugmug
  • willard3willard3 Registered Users Posts: 2,580 Major grins
    edited July 30, 2014
    The cheesemaker liked the fotos and is using them in promotional literature.
    It is better to die on you feet than to live on your knees.....Emiliano Zapata
  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited July 30, 2014
    willard3 wrote: »
    The cheesemaker liked the fotos and is using them in promotional literature.

    Which is why they say, "Blessed are the cheesemakers"!

    If you ask, "What's so special about the cheesemakers?"

    Answer is, "Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturer of dairy products".
  • puzzledpaulpuzzledpaul Registered Users Posts: 1,621 Major grins
    edited July 30, 2014
    Stumblebum wrote: »
    These cows out in the open with sunny green hills and fluffy clouds in blue sky would make better shot. ...

    +1 ... or something similar
    Earache wrote: »
    ...
    An outdoor setting may have been a better choice to present the animals.

    as above
    willard3 wrote: »
    The cheesemaker liked the fotos and is using them in promotional literature.

    Well, we all know this is a highly subjective game and that 'civilians' have different (often vastly so) ways of judging pics ...

    Whilst possibly considered 'trite' or 'cliched', I'd have thought maybe something like this would've hit the remit better ... maybe with a bit of the farm / dairy in the bg (if it had a photogenic aspect) ?

    http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=248525

    pp
  • willard3willard3 Registered Users Posts: 2,580 Major grins
    edited July 30, 2014
    Stumblebum wrote: »
    Which is why they say, "Blessed are the cheesemakers"!

    If you ask, "What's so special about the cheesemakers?"

    Answer is, "Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturer of dairy products".


    Shut up, big nose (Monty Python also, same skit)
    It is better to die on you feet than to live on your knees.....Emiliano Zapata
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