You know my personal taste in photography (less flowers, halters that fit, no dangerous scenarios or underwear).
His photos are different and I was in the mood for something different.
Maybe you've seen this one, it's popular. So unusual, but cool.
Normally I need to see at least part of one eye. Here I don't mind.
I want to touch this horse. I love lightly fleabitten horses so much. But I'd rather have a lot than none.
I've posted this one before but at the time I didn't know who to credit.
This one got a lot of negative comments on his facebook page - I can see why.
The eye of this one....
I appreciate a clean tail, and somehow he made the shavings in it attractive.
Another Michalow horse - he goes to Mag's home often apparently, and to American farms who've purchased Janow and Michalow horses.
This is also Wotjek - he wrote that it's one of the last pics of Sanadik el Shaklan. I loved that horse (from his video) and his father El Shaklan was also on my bedroom wall.
Check out his portfolio (the one with the cat is so cute) here.
What do you think?
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Today I hung up both Jolly Balls so hopefully they'll get played with and not lost in the mud. As I stood on a ladder in Mag's paddock he snorted at me from his mash bucket, but didn't freak out. I also dragged 2 more birch trees up the hill for them to chew on. They started eating them immediately and I wanted to get it on video, but then the nice neighbor came over to chat, so I missed it. When I returned, they were done with the wood. I also hung up a piece of plastic just to see what Mag would do (from the barn overhang) and he played with it. You can also see my new frost-free bucket thing and although it doesn't let the water freeze, for some reason they both prefer the water from the other troughs. As I filmed Bellis had her head in my lap/over my shoulder. Near the end Mag is taking the blanket* in his mouth, so I quit filming and saved it from him.
(* - The 125 cm Amigo Wug fits him perfectly but is starting to rub his mane out because it has the high neck. The 125 cm Amigo Bravo does not fit him at all. So, same company, different sizing on different models! I ordered a new Bravo today in 140 cm that shouldn't hurt his mane (but will let the rain in at the shoulder) and put my red one on ebay.)
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10 comments:
Lovely photos that he caught in some wonderful moments.
I think Bellis loves her mommy. Is her name pronounced Just like it is spelled Orissa a German word?
Loved that you let Bellis be close, she was so funny fading in and out of te video. Mag looks lovely, and I can't wait to see more of them both!
I love, love, love your wind chimes!!! Such a pretty sound.
Bellis cracked me up. Silly girl!!
Those pictures are incredible. I really like them.
The photos are lovely. The dog and horse picture, yeah, there's some hostility there--but the photographer probably didn't ask the dog and the horse to do that!
I love the sound of your windchimes. And look how clean Mag's tail is!!!
Bellis is such a sweetie. My neighbor with donkeys are planning to move. They've been my mares company. Deciding if we'll be needing a donkey of our own for her. Or maybe a smaller Haflinger the grandkids can someday ride. A dilemma only in my mind right now.
Ellie K, It's a latin word so pronounced like you would imagine, I think, rhymes with Trellis.
Kbryan, I'll try to do better next time. I need more planning skills.
Achieve, the wind chimes are from Fred Meyer, a Pacific Northwest target/wallmart type store. They were only 30 bucks so I bought some for my mom and myself. They are actually tuned to musical notes. I love them too but have to put them away in any more wind than normal, because Germans are not fond of noise, and they can get loud. Actually, almost no one in Germany has wind chimes, because of the potential disturbance of the peace. If I were to try to buy them here, I wouldn't know where to shop for them.
Aarene, I think you're right, the photographer did not set up a potentially dangerous situation, but he was there to see it and now he gets the scorn. I'm glad you like my Fred Meyer windchimes too! And Mag's tail, a work in progress, but I'm happy to hear that you think you see an improvement. How nice of you now that I know how you feel (I never really knew you didn't like grey arab geldings, I just knew you didn't *love* them!)
Camryn, don't let any donkey fan ever tell you that "They aren't stubborn, they're just thoughtful." Right. Thoughtful enough to be 100% impossible to move forward when urgently needed (onto a trailer in an emergency?). It's stubbornness, no other word fits. I love my donkey so much. But you cannot convince her to do anything she wasn't inclined to do on her own. The fun part though, is watching her outsmart horses who are dominant over her. From all I've seen, they are smarter than horses. Or rather, better suited to an artificial environment that includes humans.
Ha! Thoughtful... haha. Yeah they are stubborn! ;)
I forget about the noise thing in Germany. My neighbors are so far away they probably wouldn't be able to hear them. We have to bring our windchimes in during storms because they will break... nothing is made as well as it used to be...
It turns out that I don't dislike individual grey arab geldings...in fact, I can only "tell apart" four grey arab geldings from the whole world of grey arab geldings, and two of those have since died (Baasha and Sinatra) one lives in Arizona (Nero) and now the new guy (Kalief, or however it's spelled).
I like(d) each of my little grey friends enormously as individuals, but it would never occur to me to buy/adopt/want one. And yet, Little Mister Unspellable Name is pretty dang cute. I tell Fiddle that she needs to polish up her "cute" routine. (She doesn't have a "cute" routine, she's a dragon, not a chihuahua!)
Your effort with Mag's tail is admirable, and I admire it. He's very, very pretty. :-) And maybe if I keep reading your blog long enough, I will learn to pick him out of a crowd of grey arab geldings? Hmmm. You'd better keep writing, and post a LOT of photos! :-)
re: donkeys being thoughtful/stubborn/smart
I was going to say that goats are easily as thoughtful/stubborn as donkeys. But mine are definitely not smart. And Fiddle finds them infuriating! They just keep doing their stubborn/thoughtful/dumb stuff, totally oblivious to her.
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