Hunks Of Love
☆ January 20, 2012
Hunks of love.
That’s what bulls are, to me, at least.
I was cleaning out my hard drive and found this picture from a year ago.
This is Rocky, one of the older bulls on the place. He loves a good scratch and some attention. I lie on him, too, but Baby is the only one I ride.
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January 20th, 2012 @ 7:21 am
You must have raised them on a bottle…right?
January 20th, 2012 @ 7:29 am
nope!
January 20th, 2012 @ 7:39 am
He is one “BEFFY” hunk o’ man. ;)
January 20th, 2012 @ 8:23 am
LOVE!!! Cattle are seriously underrated in the snuggle department.
January 20th, 2012 @ 8:24 am
They must smell just divine in the sunshine.
January 20th, 2012 @ 8:26 am
A calendar of your “gentlemen” would be nice, or perhaps a combined photo.
January 20th, 2012 @ 8:55 am
You are one eternally interesting person….
January 20th, 2012 @ 9:04 am
Wow he is one big gentle giant!
January 20th, 2012 @ 9:26 am
How wonderful is it? You get to live with a whole bunch of Ferdinands!
January 20th, 2012 @ 9:52 am
He looks so massive in comparison to you! I bet he has some beautiful soulful eyes.
January 20th, 2012 @ 9:57 am
You have given me a whole new appreciation of bovines! Thanks :)
January 20th, 2012 @ 10:29 am
He looks positively, massively enormous!! And sweet. His face looks kissable :-)
January 20th, 2012 @ 10:38 am
on this fine sunny yet bitter cold pittsburgh morning, this is a magnificent image to warm my heart! he is beautiful. and i long to gently wrap my arms around him. he just looks so huggable! next time the opportunity presents itself, please give him a hug from the internet and tell him we appreciate his strength as well as his kindness.
happy friday!
January 20th, 2012 @ 10:42 am
this is lovely! he’s so huge next to you…
when i was growing up, my brother and i were always scared of the bulls on our farm but this image is a strong reminder that we needn’t have been.
January 20th, 2012 @ 11:22 am
Hunky inDEED :)
I noticed that some of your herd are horned while most(?) of them aren’t. Is that indicative of different breeds, and if so, do you have any thoughts on raising horned vs. un-horned (or even de-horned) cattle?
When i was a kid we had pet pygmy goats that we had disbudded for health and safety reasons. I saw this photo and started wondering about horns on larger livestock and figured you’d have some good insight :)
January 20th, 2012 @ 11:50 am
L ~ Frisco is actually the only one with horns (it’s a breed thing). I wrote a post about his baby horns and the “keep ’em or not” issue here: http://honeyrockdawn.com/2010/03/budding/
January 20th, 2012 @ 11:55 am
Are any of his kin buffalo?? :)
January 20th, 2012 @ 12:08 pm
He is magnificently handsome!
January 20th, 2012 @ 12:33 pm
A Bull Calendar! I am there! And with a sprinkling of Shreve, for perspective and vicarious enjoyment.
January 20th, 2012 @ 12:37 pm
Great shot. Gotta love cattle – I have a soft spot in my heart for both cows and bulls – who like stallions, are made to be the villain.
January 20th, 2012 @ 1:58 pm
I agree with Chris
January 20th, 2012 @ 2:44 pm
Wow, that guy is huge! What a sweety! :)
January 20th, 2012 @ 2:49 pm
What an awesome photo. For your self-portraits, do you set up your camera on a tripod, set the focus, hit the shutter (on a timer) and then run over and get in the shot before the shutter goes?
January 20th, 2012 @ 4:02 pm
Maggie ~ for digi, that’s what I used to do (I have 30′ cable releases for my film cameras) but now I use a uber nifty thing like this (I can’t find the exact one I have):
http://www.amazon.com/Aputure-Powershot-Compatible-Inexpensive-Intervalometer/dp/B003Y35VJA/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1327190714&sr=1-2
It’s designed for time lapse photography but I think it’s great for digital self portraits. This way there’s no running! Which makes the photos so much more authentic, because they’re not “posed” ~ you can have the camera firing over a course of five minutes, ten minutes, whatever you want. It’s awesome.
January 20th, 2012 @ 4:40 pm
What a majestic creature. Just soaking up the sun, enjoying a well-earned scritch-and-snack.
Lovely composition, the contrast between you and his shaggy massiveness.
January 21st, 2012 @ 9:17 am
Regard to Janet in Cambridge, no they smell just bovine in the sunshine…….
January 21st, 2012 @ 12:15 pm
animal bucket List
1. German Shepherd 2.0
2. Coyote
3. maine coon cat
4. Horse
5. pygmy goat
6. Milk Cow
7. Bull
Shreve, you have made my list quite a bit longer.
January 21st, 2012 @ 1:26 pm
Beautiful, beautiful behemoth. Your own personal furnace for those chilly Wyo days. Look what you’ve done: you’ve made all of us fall in love with a giant black bull. …And we thank you for that. Hehe.
January 21st, 2012 @ 3:57 pm
Ahhhh, want! (the shutter release) Thanks for that link!!
January 21st, 2012 @ 6:01 pm
I love that the largest mammals are cuddle bugs.
January 23rd, 2012 @ 12:29 pm
I just spent 6 days at the national western stockshow in Denver…lots of huggable beasts there…loved your photo..on the range instead of in the ring.
January 24th, 2012 @ 3:02 am
The bull(s) is/are nice but as far as photos go, Snailman brought me the BESTEST snap of Charlie yet! Thanks Shreve.
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