Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Building Trust

A donkey licks a horse biscuit in a woman's hand.

Photo Information

Taken:4 July 2012 14:35 near Yorktown, Texas
Camera:Canon EOS Rebel T2i / Sigma DG 50-500mm
Exposure:ISO 500
450mm, 0 EV
f/6.3
1/800

Backstory

This may be the most requested picture I have ever taken. Suna talked about it on Facebook while we were still away from a computer to upload it, and the “I wanna see”s  began to pour in on her wall. So here it is. Posted on the day I took it instead of after waiting to see if I thought it was still good after a time.


Now for the real backstory.

While visiting with Dad for the Fourth, we found out a trip to Kennedy to the Tractor Supply was in order. Suna took advantage of the trip to buy some horse biscuits to start getting friendlier with Oscar. You can see they worked very well indeed. He attempted to get the biscuit out of her hand.

Maybe someday, he’ll come up to us without being bribed.



Falling biscuit

Photo Information

Exposure:ISO 400
450mm, 0 EV
f/6.3
1/640

Backstory

I say “attempted” because Oscar was unsuccessful. In this frame, taken a fraction of a second after the top one (I love autowinders on digital cameras!), you can see the biscuit falling behind the middle rung of the gate.

He did come back and eat all the dropped biscuits. Then he begged for more.
—4 July 2012