Stills

A handsome animal indeed though the tightness of the crop did leave me wondering briefly exactly what animal it is. I quickly jumped from cow to horse and am comfortable with that decision. Says more about me than anything else I suppose.

There's a great deal of warmth to this image including the animals attitude which seems to be extremely relaxed.
 

Interesting. This was inside one of the animal tents. I can recall thinking this animal (cow or bull) was a beautiful colour and was very passive. So I took some pictures and on looking at them on the camera I was surprised that the colour was very different from what I had anticipated. I have no idea as to the 'true' colour. The tent produced a colour cast which my eyes probably nulled out and the camera was probably confused too!

The light patch is due to exposure not original colour. I believe that the tent, although translucent still gave a strong increase in light in the direction of the sun, therefore the patch is created by the reflection of the sun on the animal's coat.

The DoF was less than I had estimated so the body was cropped off as the lack of detail rendered it non-contributory.

PS JohnJo it is a horse……….until someone looks at it and says it is a cow then it stays that way until someone says……………. (Nicked from Picasso)
 

Ummmm. Never, ever, let me get near a farm.
 

Farm? You wouldn't find one of these on a farm. Far, far too clean.

I look at this and think, maybe, just maybe, I ought to take a few more colour pictures. This is super, and an inspiration, and as we have no frame of reference, who cares if the colour is slightly "wrong".
 

I think that Auspicious has just let on about his colour prejudice!!! Green needs a gray card - brown's OK!! John-Jo, why do you think that I used the term animal? I cross-referred to all the pictures of horses and cows that I have and couldn't make up my mind! So Picasso rules. This is either a light Limousin or a dark Charolais. And you could find this on a farm - free-range cattle on extensive grazing in dry weather could get close to this with just a bit of tarting up for the show.
 

Dry weather? That'll of been what confused me.

JohnE: you are perfectly right about the colour bias. One of the reasons that I take landscape photographs in black and white is that I struggle to find harmony in greens. I know that human sight is said to be adapted to distinguish more greens and I sometimes feel that the green channel is easy to overwhelm with data. Too many variants in too many clashing shades. I also think that we are very good at spotting when photography hasn't got the green right whereas we let through large errors in shade in red and blue. Possibly we look at the greens more closely or perhaps reproduction falls further short for green than for the other colours.
 

Really not sure what to say about this. The detail is good and as are the colours (save the blown bit above the eye). However, I feel that the shot is the harness and it just stops below the ear. It's arc towards the bottom of the frame leads me to wanting to see more below than above...perhaps as far as the nostrils because this picture smells of straw.