A Photo a Week: Livestock.

Good morning from a cloudy, windy Hastings.

Nancy has given us the challenge of finding livestock. I live in a rural city which means that it is only 15 minute drive from the CBD to the country side. So yes we have a lot of livestock. I just don’t have many photos of livestock.

Then searching through my iPad it came across these photos I took one very cold, frosty winter morning last year.

http://nadiamerrillphotography.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/a-photo-a-week-challenge-livestock/

http://irisgreenwald.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/a-photo-a-week-challenge-livestock/

A Photo a Week Challenge: Livestock

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Sunday Stills Challenge: Cows

This week Ed  from Sunday Stills has given us this challenge to find cows.  I found these cows on a very chilly morning last July at Pakowahi Park, just out of Hastings.

Here are some other great cows to find.

http://sundaystills.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/sunday-stills-the-next-challenge-cows/

http://nowathome.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/sunday-stills-the-next-challenge-cows/

http://esengasvoice.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/sunday-stills-challenge-cows/

Show day

 

Good morning from a beautiful sunny Hastings.

Yesterday was our anniversary day, a public holiday for Hawke’s Bay.  It is also a traditional show day.  In other words the show has come to town, the A&P Show, that is.  It was a blustery day but that didn’t stop the hordes of people descending on the show ground to enjoy the stalls and animals that are on show.  On the spur of the moment my husband decided to go so I just grabbed the camera and went.  He isn’t very patient with my stopping every few minutes to take photos but we got around in about 2 hours before we had had enough.  I am not one for crowds.  I am also not keen on taking photos of people and posting them.  I have included a couple today but they were part of the show and I guess would accept photos of them posted on the internet.  I hope so anyway.

 

The woodchoppers are very much a part of the traditional rural scene.  There was this soooo cute little boy in the foreground who was trying to cut up wood like his dad.  I am going to contact the paper to see if I can trace him and his family and give them the photos.  I think that they would like that.  I have one photo where he is concentrating so hard with his tongue sticking out.

 

Now this is sooo much of the kiwi scene, with the number 8 wire mentality.  The young me in their black singlets, of course, have to construct a wooden gate from start to finish and then put up the fence.  Backbreaking work.

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This was so funny.  This is a machine that breaks up these bigger blocks of wood into firewood size. This man and his son were so intent on taking a photo of the machine in action that they didn’t notice what was going on around them.  I hope I am not so intense on my photos like that .

 

There was colour everywhere.

 

Machines of all sizes and purposes were on show as well.  At least I wasn’t the only one that was taking photos of me.  I think though that I was looking for the more different shots, not the generic isn’t that nice type of photo.

 

I loved these galvanised wire animals.

 

I couldn’t resist doing some photo editing.

 

Finally we were treated to a majestic sunset, curtesy of the foehn winds.

 

A fruitful day.