Well this is it, the year we all hope the vaccines will bring an end to this terrible pandemic that is sweeping across the world. Not many people will be sorry to see the end of 2020, it has been so hard & scary for so many of us, with just the foolish few making it worse for everyone else. Not that it has affected us in such remote places as our village, the main thing is that being remote we can walk for miles & not see a single person, with just the occasional farmer driving past us. This of course means it has not really affected my photography, so a New Year resolution that I have made is that I am going to try & take at least on photo a day, with as small amount of repetition as possible. Although we have had it cold over the Christmas/ New Year period (going down to minus 9C on one night) & a moderate drop of snow, we have still been out walking.
The main area I have concentrated on is shots of a local cow herd, these beasts are normally further out on the hills & moors, but for the winter the farmer has put them on rough moorland pasture near to the road we often walk. A great advantage to me as I can just put my long lens on & photograph them as if close up.
Before the shots I would just like to wish all you lovely folk that follow me a very Happy, healthy & trouble free New Year.
Firstly from within my garden one of the four regular visiting Red Squirrels, eating the bird seed. Normally when it is as cold as it was on this day we don’t see them to often as they just stay in their drey’s, but after such a prolonged cold spell they have to come out & feed, so I am glad we have enough places for them to feed without squabbling. In the first shot it looks to me like it is talking to the stone bird.
I think you can see by the number of shots I took of these cows I thought they were just beautiful, each one was slightly different from the others & you couldn’t have styled their hair better if they had been to the barbers.
On this Christmas day walk we saw two sheep that had obviously been stray from the main flock for some time as those coats had definitely not grown that long since the summer.
This was the road up the hill Christmas day, just the imprint of a farm vehicle in the snow, with only our footprints beside it.
Spotted this family about half a mile over the Glen, so chuffed to have got the shot with a heavy lens & hand held.
My favourite fallen tree, always reminds me of Chinese calligraphy, as though someone came along & arranged it after it fell, textures are beautiful.
Up nearer the big house today was this field of different aged Aberdeen Angus bulls, this is the eldest & was giving me the evil eye.
Then these two angry looking beasts, the eyes say it all, “clear off you”.
Lastly these two young un’s learning how to stare me out like their peers.