Carlow, Ireland. First ladybird I have seen this year. The sign of the forthcomming spring. Camera: samsung GX 10, lens: Sigma 70-300 F4-5.6 APO DG Macro.
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My wife is a amateur horse rider and riding and looking after those creatures is her biggest passion. Sometimes I am keeping her a company while she is in the stables. Usually I am armed with one of my cameras. So far I had been taking photos of the horses. Those animals are very nice models. This time I have decided to show the ordinary day in the stud. It is not only the horse riding but also hard work in the stables (cleaning cells, cleaning horses, hooves). I took so many pictures and I played a while with them turning some of them to black and white, while I couldn’t decide what to do in some others, so a few of the photos is shown both in colour and black and white. Camera: Samsung GX 10, Lens: Sigma 70 - 300 F 4-5.6 APO DG Macro. ISO: 400
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September 2007, Poland, suburbs of Lodz in Ruda Pabianicka. Horses from the stud where my wife spends most of her spare time. Here on the photo they are resting on the meadow at the old racing track. That part of Lodz was full of studs and stables due to the racing track. In the post war, communistic Poland, racing track was closed down. Lodz had to be city of factory owners, and horse racing was not acceptable by the communists.
September 2007, Ireland, Balitore, co. Kildare, cows on the field behind the barbed wire fence. Cows, that we - people - breed, are mostly doomed to death in the slaughter houses and finally are consumed. They are not aware of their fate until they find themselves in the queue for death by a shot to the head. I am just curious how many of us wouldn’t have touched any meat if they were forced to kill the cow by themselves in the slaughterhouses, if they were forced to cut the head, to cut parts that are still moving, parts of the body where the last sparks of life are still present. We have pushed the killing process away of us and we are sorry for the cows but we like the tasty burgers, beefstucks etc. I am not vegetarian by the way.
