An old bull trick

As I approached this young bull he started to show a bit of attitude and looked like he meant business. So I thought I’d try an old bull trick… I started to drag the dirt under my feet as a kind of a challenge, the way bulls do before they charge. It seemed to freak him out a little even though I only have two legs. He trotted off unwilling to take up the challenge. Of course I did all this from the safety of a fence. ; )

tree in river

This is an alternate version of the XPan image previously posted. I often leave a few weeks before going back and assessing an image, particularly if they have been shot in in other formats. This is a morning shot taken in muted light. The sky although a little darker doesn’t compete with the trees and the river in the same way as a bright sunny sky would. This is somewhat more painterly.

sandlines and seaweed

Descriptive in different ways - I use the word ‘story’ very sparingly in relation to photography. It can make you sound pretentious especially when you don’t have a series of images that work together. These two images though show why I shoot both colour and B&W. Especially with a limited colour palette as this bottom image shows, the yellow gold can lift the image where absence of colour would not give the image the same appeal. It may not be the most striking image but it illustrates the point. And you can see why and how too much colour in an image can detract from your subject of the image as a whole. Which is why, in many instances, if not used judiciously, colour weakens your image. B&W just tells the story in a different way.