POTD

Ivy League Chicago, Illinois 2011

The east lawn of the Chicago Art Institute.

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Ghost Flight Bozeman, Montana 2011

It’s amazing what a little bad camera work (shutter speed too slow and a jerky camera hand in this case) can sometimes do for an image.]]>

One Among Many Bozeman, Montana 2011

I wondered if this magpie felt protected or threatened surrounded by all the crows.

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Window Still Life Bozeman, Montana 2011

I took this last fall at our mountain house but this time of year it seems more like a teaser for the promise of spring.]]>

Linear Housing Chicago, Illinois 2011

Whenever I get a possible candidate for a POTD while processing photos, I put a small uploadable copy of it in a special folder on my computer. Once they’re used as a POTD they get moved to a different folder so I can keep track of what’s left to use. I just checked the potential POTD folder and there are 381 images in there right now, dating back to as long ago as 2007. Some of these images I’ve lost interest in and won’t ever be used, but there are still a large number I still like quite a bit. So I’m going post a rather random assortment of those over the next few days.]]>

Judging Bunnies Bozeman, Montana 2012

These young folks were sitting there a long time waiting for the judge to finish with the bunny just out of view on the left. They were waiting when we first walked in the room and were still waiting when we left maybe ten minutes later. Four out of five of them looked like terminal boredom had already set in and, with no indication of movement on the part of the judge the whole time we were there, I suspect the lone survivor succumbed soon after we left.]]>

Cuddly Burgers Bozeman, Montana 2012

Beef from these Scottish Highland cattle is supposed to be quite tasty–superior to Angus in taste and texture according to some. Fortunately they aren’t particularly suitable to large commercial feedlot operations (something about mud balls forming on all that hair and the horns being a dangerous nuisance)—I’m not sure I could enjoy eating a burger or steak thinking it might be from such a cuddly looking creature.

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Hot Foot Bozeman, Montana 2012

At the horse shoe demonstration/competition at the Wild West Winterfest. None of the smithies were wearing gloves which just seemed odd around all that hot metal.]]>

Stability Bozeman, Montana 2012

This rider was demonstrating how steady and stable this horse is amid noisy and startling distractions. You can’t really see it in the photo because it’s blurred due to movement, but the guy was repeatedly cracking a bull whip in the air. The most the horse did while all this was going on was to raise a leg a little bit as shown in this photo. I’d have been even more impressed if the guy had dropped the reins while he stood in the saddle. However his not doing so probably had more to do with his own abilities rather than the horse’s.  That’s one rock-steady or else very deaf horse.]]>

Looking for Bids Bozeman, Montana 2012

Twenty-nine years ago I watched the horse auction at the Winter Fair in Bozeman for the first time. It’s called the Wild West Winterfest now, for marketing reasons I presume. Despite the catchy name change and the numerous cell phones and digital cameras that didn’t even exist back then scattered throughout the crowd, this year it looked pretty much like it did some three decades ago.]]>