New Neighbors

[LePetomane]

The rancher behind us opened up the pasture for his cattle to graze. I doubt I will invite any of them in for coffee but they make great neighbors.

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[Mike Buckley]

Everything about the first one is quite nice. If you want her to stop grazing and instead look at you, my experience is that doing your own version of a moo will usually work. If your moo is as good as my wife's moo, it will always work.

Several issues about the composition in the second one don't work for me: the ear at the left side of the frame, the "cut off" cow in the top right corner, and the fence that seems to get in the way of viewing the calves rather than frame them. Shooting from a lower position might have framed the calves nicely within the fence and included all of the cow behind them.

I doubt I will invite any of them in for coffee

If you drink milk or cream with your coffee, you might want to rethink that about the adult cows.

[Geoff F]

Besides the half a cow in the top right corner of the second image, there is also an isolated ear on the left. But I suspect that a little bit of crop and clone mixture would easily turn this into an excellent composition.

[Shadowman]

Nice captures.

[LePetomane]

I wasn't trying to do anything special with the second image. The rancher has a big scary bull that is never in a position for me to get a good shot but I keep looking for him. The bulls usually have their own pasture because they can be pretty mean.

[IzzieK]

+1 to Geoff's comments. I have seen the half cow and the isolated ears too and I kinda prefer the first longhorn. I think this is a Danish Red/White Parks combo.

[LePetomane]

More of them came by today.

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The little dog was fascinated with them. We've had her out in the field behind our house getting her used to rooting around in the weeds. She starts bird hunting training in a few weeks.

[IzzieK]

So this is how the little fella grown up a bit...I like the orange in part of her coat.
BTW your #2 image here in this second batch disappeared. Did you remove it? It says no longer available...