Figure 1 – Gossip, Rumor, and Innuendo, Codman Estate, Lincoln, MA. (c) DE Wolf 2015.

Every morning and evening as I drive to and from work, I go past the historic Codman Estate, in Lincoln, Massachusetts.  Henry David Thoreau mentions the Codman Estate in “Walden.” So it is both a grounding and a bucolic drive.  There are cows and lamas in the fields, and for a year now I keep meaning to stop and take a few photographs. Well over the Memorial Day weekend, I finally decided to drive over and get out of the car.  I was trepidatious at first. But these are gentle giants and they watched me, but weren’t overly bothered by my presence, even when I came near the little calf that was there.

I wasn’t overly happy with the results of the photo-shoot. That means I am going to need to go back again. But in the meanwhile I have amused myself with this picture of three bovine ladies as if telling tales about others. It is a little clique; so I have named them as: Gossip, Rumor, and Innuendo. I will admit that I did a lot of Photoshopping with this one. I removed a lot of flies and ear tags from the cows to make them look more native and appealing.

Canon T2i with EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens at 131 mm, ISO 1600, Aperture Priority AE mode, 1/500th sec at f/8.0 -1 exposure compensation.