Comments on: martin brink – cows

By: Bengt Anderberg

Bengt Anderberg — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:31:34 +0000

Hi Martin,
I really like this shot! You managed to get full attention from all members of this group ;-)

Good luck,
Bengt

By: erik neufurth

erik neufurth — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:22:47 +0000

“look, there shall be a yellow cow of the brightest yellow, a pleasure to view. the cow shall be healthy, and there shall be no blemish on it…” the koran.
unfortunately the prophet forgot to mention that the pleasure would be greater if the cows could only do something interesting.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/139/334598859_4ba4b32fb0.jpg
sorry for the in this case truely shameless selfpromotion, but i couldn´t resist.

By: Martin Brink

Martin Brink — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:33:22 +0000

Thanks Kyunghee Lee! Glad you enjoy it and hope you have a happy “cow year” in 2009 :)

By: Kyunghee Lee

Kyunghee Lee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:02:02 +0000

Martin,

Every cows see us and we see cows… Maybe Happy New Year Greeting!
Very interesting photo and it makes me smiling and happy. :)))
This year(2009)is cow’s year in Asian calendar!
Thank you very much.

By: Patricia Lay-Dorsey

Patricia Lay-Dorsey — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:19:39 +0000

Actually, after my cow-to-human experience I was glad I was already a vegetarian ;=)

Patricia

By: Martin Brink

Martin Brink — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:16:40 +0000

Bob,
Thanks! Many cow lovers over here :) Great link. That’s the impression I get of them.

By: bobbblack

bobbblack — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:42:45 +0000

I love cows!!!!!!!!….as a kid, when my dad moved us to the country, the farmer across the way had milk cows (i loved to listen to them lick at the salt blocks)…and i would be a happy meant spending an afternoon with these beauties…:)))

glad to see some humour here too :)))))…

here’s one of my favorite Larson cows ;’))))…..

instead of ‘car’ substitute ‘photographer’ ;)))))

http://www.tachyon-city.com/wp-content/farsidecowncar.gif

cheers,
bob

By: Katharina

Katharina — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:30:52 +0000

” Only me ” ……I bet you are ! :)

By: Martin Brink

Martin Brink — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:55:37 +0000

By: Martin Brink

Martin Brink — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:55:05 +0000

Thanks Patricia! Great story!
Feels weird eating them after all this talk, but I do ;) Not very often though..

Cheers

By: Martin Brink

Martin Brink — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:52:35 +0000

Thanks Anton! You’re probably right! :)

Cheers

By: Martin Brink

Martin Brink — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:50:21 +0000

Thanks Mike! I also enjoy a mix of images.

By: Martin Brink

Martin Brink — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:48:50 +0000

Very true. It’s not one of my pictures I like the best myself, but I enjoy it and thought that photography doesn’t always have to be taken so damn serious.

By: Akaky

Akaky — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:37:26 +0000

Martin, those cows are looking at you like you’re the buyer from McDonald’s.

By: Patricia Lay-Dorsey

Patricia Lay-Dorsey — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:26:21 +0000

Thanks, Martin, for encouraging us to look at your cows on the full screen mode. That changed everything for me. Instead of a group of cows, they became individuals, each with its own unique expression and waayy of being in the world.

This image brings back memories of a wonderful experience I had a pregnant cow a couple of years ago. She and I had made eye contact that led me to feel we were communicating. Within a few minutes she started her first contraction. For the next 45 minutes I watched her silent stoic acceptance of increasing painful contractions, the actual birth of a healthy bull, his tongue-bath by his seemingly proud mother, and his first wobbly-legged tugs on her full-to-bursting udder.

Thanks, Martin, for bringing it all back.

By: anton

anton — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:57:41 +0000

martin

great shot. brings back memories… i used to walk/drive past meadows like this almost every day, and it really is great to see cows gathering like this. cows are so curious all the time, so funny… stand beside any meadow for 5 minutes and by that time all cows are lined up looking at you as if you’re performing some kind of ridiculously silly act :-)

well, maybe to them, an animal standing on its two hind legs holding a shiny box in front of his face making a clicking noise, is rather weird…

thanks for sharing. i love the calf trying to peek between the 2nd and 3rd cow on the left: “mommy what’s going on? i want to see!”

cheers,
anton

By: Mike Halminski

Mike Halminski — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:42:45 +0000

Whether we like the images in “selected photographs” or not, I do enjoy the interesting variety. At first I too thought “just another shot of some cows”. But the more I look, the more I like it. Too bad one of the cows couldn’t make a photo of Martin shooting them.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:32:45 +0000

proof-positive that sometimes you just need a lucky snapshot of some random cows to suddenly lighten up everyone in the room. Gary Larson can just draw them and we giggle without always knowing why.

If you ‘mooos’ to look deeper than that i suspect you will be disappointed; damn that felt naff typing moooos, but i suppose sometime you just need to be a bit naff as well.

By: Martin Brink

Martin Brink — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:36:48 +0000

They were only watching me, but maybe I’m a spectable ;)

By: Martin Brink

Martin Brink — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:36:14 +0000

Thanks Joe!