More cattle work

[shmelly]

Droving the cattle to a better paddock



a job well done, but not as easy as it looks




a different windmill



a view from the top of the windmill (and my climbing the windmill had absolutely nothing to do with the bull down there in the middle of the photo.

[fstopMike]

Hi Michele,
I've enjoyed all of your ranch photos. I like the way you've framed the ranch hand and the horse in your second shot, and I'm a sucker for windmills. I could look at them all day long. Great set!

[dan.will60]

Great shots Michelle.
Still not a great deal of tucker around hey.
I remember the first time we were trusted with 50 head of cattle to move from one paddock to another.About 5 mile I think.
Must have been all of 10 years old,my mate my brother and I though we had made it.
We were successful but as you say not as easy as it looks.
I think I grew up quite a bit that day.
Thanks for the memories and sharing.

[Hayward Taylor]

Hi Michele - this whole series of yours is superb .. every photo has a point of interest ..the trees,windmill,the composition ... it's all stunning.,,excellent work

[corry]

yes, great work..... i find it hard to get great shots of our black angus herd....perhaps i need to step back more as you have done. tfs.

[suprspi]

Really nice composition and colour. Good interest, and I love the framing of the ranch hand, like someone before me said.

I worked on a "working" guest ranch when I was a teen, doing everything from cooking, cleaning, leading trail rides and herding beef. I have great memories of that, and these really brought that back - thanks, and great job.

[jakethepig]

I love all your cattle shots Michells and it's something I have never seen for real. i especially like the colours in the second one and wherever there is a lovely blue sky, you always take full advantage of it, the contrast with the sky in all your pictures is so good. I love the windmill shot too. Great work Michelle. I love them all.

Dave.

[shmelly]

Originally Posted by fstopMike

Hi Michele,
I've enjoyed all of your ranch photos. I like the way you've framed the ranch hand and the horse in your second shot, and I'm a sucker for windmills. I could look at them all day long. Great set!

Thanks Mike, I'm glad you have enjoyed the Cattle station pictures, I wish I could say that I purposely framed the cattle hand, but I didn't, and although I could probably keep you going with windmills for the next few weeks I think this series has almost come to an end.

Originally Posted by dan.will60

Great shots Michelle.
Still not a great deal of tucker around hey.
I remember the first time we were trusted with 50 head of cattle to move from one paddock to another.About 5 mile I think.
Must have been all of 10 years old,my mate my brother and I though we had made it.
We were successful but as you say not as easy as it looks.
I think I grew up quite a bit that day.
Thanks for the memories and sharing.

The feed isn't to bad at the moment, they are very lucky,a lot of the neibouring properties lost their grasses because of the floods early in the year. Moving cattle anywhere is not easy no matter how long you have been doing it for, notice all my pictures have fences between them and me, I didn't dare not do what I was told, things that don't do what they are told out there tend to end up on the dinner table.

Originally Posted by Hayward Taylor

Hi Michele - this whole series of yours is superb .. every photo has a point of interest ..the trees,windmill,the composition ... it's all stunning.,,excellent work

thankyou Haywood

Originally Posted by corry

yes, great work..... i find it hard to get great shots of our black angus herd....perhaps i need to step back more as you have done. tfs.

I did find it was very hard to take interesting pictures of cattle, I found I needed more than just the cattle to look interesting.

Originally Posted by suprspi

Really nice composition and colour. Good interest, and I love the framing of the ranch hand, like someone before me said.

I worked on a "working" guest ranch when I was a teen, doing everything from cooking, cleaning, leading trail rides and herding beef. I have great memories of that, and these really brought that back - thanks, and great job.

It's long hard days full of tiring hot work but very satisfying, I just don't know if I could take the isolation.

Originally Posted by jakethepig

I love all your cattle shots Michells and it's something I have never seen for real. i especially like the colours in the second one and wherever there is a lovely blue sky, you always take full advantage of it, the contrast with the sky in all your pictures is so good. I love the windmill shot too. Great work Michelle. I love them all.

Dave.

Thankyou Dave, I have enjoyed sharing them with everyone, I guess they are just a little bit different even for most Australians.

[jacobthellamer]

I really like that third one

[sheldonc]

like all these but the second is my favourite with all the dust in the background