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Post by pontiac1940 on Nov 10, 2022 5:01:37 GMT
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Post by BuckSkin on Nov 10, 2022 7:28:12 GMT
Impressive; especially that bottom one.
By "dryland cropland", I take it you are meaning not irrigated, right ?
The Antelope make me think of a stay at the Best Western on US Hwy 50 in Gunnison, Colorado, in June 2004.
The next morning, right across the highway from our room, a huge Antelope was just standing there over a fence.
After the most generous and well-rounded "continental breakfast" I ever had, he was still just standing there.
We crossed the highway for a closer look and he paid no more attention to us than an old gentle cow.
That thing was huge and fat as a town dog; he must have been some sort of a pet.
Sadly, the photos we took of him, with our $29 K-Mart special, and two rolls worth of many other memorable scenes, just happened to be on the roll of film that somehow missed getting identified as used and got loaded back in the camera for another round a few days later. --- I don't miss film photography one bit.
On the same trip, the wife had to swap film way back inside the Old Hundred Gold Mine, in Silverton, Colorado; somehow, the holes alongside the film missed engaging with the little notched wheel and we thought we were taking pictures when all we were doing was spinning the wheel. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Nov 10, 2022 15:55:20 GMT
By "dryland cropland", I take it you are meaning not irrigated, right ? Yes. A lot of land around here is dryland and mainly wheat, barley or canola. Out on the plains, it's always a crap shoot because of rain .. or not. Obviously, they do okay in the long run. don't miss film photography one bit. Same. |
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Post by hmca on Nov 10, 2022 17:01:00 GMT
Love this series, Clive!
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Post by pontiac1940 on Nov 10, 2022 19:09:24 GMT
Thanks Helen. Conditions were not ideal, but it was still an opportunity. They were far away, the light low-ish and some light snow. Oh, and it was cold.  I love seeing antelope that are more accurately just pronghorns. Ancient animals. The pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is a species of mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America. Though not an antelope, it is known colloquially in North America as the American antelope, prong buck, pronghorn antelope and prairie antelope, because it closely resembles the antelopes of the Old World and fills a similar ecological niche due to parallel evolution. It is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae. |
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Post by hmca on Nov 10, 2022 20:14:53 GMT
They were far away, the light low-ish and some light snow. But I think that resulted in a rather painterly quality, that I find very pleasing. |
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