PHOTOGRAPH INFO
This photo was taken Wednesday morning at an organic farm in Bucks County. I spent a good hour visiting with these pigs, and they're the happiest I've seen: they have plenty of room to wander and root around in the large field and woods where they're raised. They get along well with one another, take turns drinking water and eating food, and take contented naps next to one another in the wallow.
Pigs wallow in mud to protect their skin from sunburn and insects.
Stay cool!
Post-processing: Shot with the Canon EOS 5D
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Oh that's so nice that they're happy and have room to roam. A pig's natural environment is a forest, and they would normally wade in streams (not mud) to keep cool. The organic farm should get them a stream.
Posted by Jen on July 13, 2007 12:17 AMThis picture puts the smile on my face! Nice tone range, too.
Posted by Tero on July 13, 2007 12:56 AMThis is just awesome.
Love the textures.
They sure do look happy!
Posted by Michael George on July 13, 2007 1:41 AMIs this picture from the opera, Swine Lake, I've heard about? Is the big, bad wolf lurking just off camera? Does Charlotte know that Wilbur and his friends do this? Is this how you get soused? Would my maw approve? This is quite a pickle they've gotten their feet into. Da-dat, da-dat, da-dat's all folks.
Posted by JPH on July 13, 2007 5:37 AMAwesome and such a fun photo. They look happy as pigs in mud! Charlotte's Web comes to mind.
Posted by Laurie on July 13, 2007 6:09 AMehee.. nice! it's looks like a Roskilde festival this year ;) - http://www.roskilde-festival.dk/
Posted by BC on July 13, 2007 7:07 AMI hope you're leaning on a fence to get this shot and not knee deep in ****. This photo is fantastic, they all look so happy.
Posted by Keith De-Lin on July 13, 2007 8:15 AMThis is a mess.
Posted by david hasselhoff on July 13, 2007 8:25 AMA stream is a horrible idea. It would carry waste away in an uncontrolled way and also cause erosion problems. Besides, it is the nature of all pigs to wallow... even wild pigs, even if they have access to a stream.
I love the pig picture. We really enjoyed raising our own last year.
Posted by Robinson on July 13, 2007 9:43 AMYou've got to admit that sometimes this is all we want to be doing. Aaahhhh...just relishing life. Great monochromatic picture.
Posted by RD on July 13, 2007 10:03 AMThe fact that you took this picture at all impresses more than I can adequately express in words alone.....but music?..... Perhaps Nora Jones' "Wake Me When It's Over?...but what has me on the edge now is, "what will Willow write??????" (expressed as 4W?)
I will be checking back every 30 or 40 seconds till she weighs in on the human condition as expressed by a swine cooler.
I assume your feet were cool this time!
Thx #6007
Posted by david tinnon on July 13, 2007 12:51 PMA fabulous bronze lawn piece, intitled "Two's Company"
Posted by david tinnon on July 13, 2007 1:03 PMOh my! Stupendous!!! One of the funniest, most gripping photos I've seen in a while, just because it's so different than the typical landscape or still life shots.
I have to say, at plus 34 celsius here today, I feel like I should join those pigs ...
Posted by lisa on July 13, 2007 5:25 PMAin't life grand.
Posted by Bill Prickett on July 13, 2007 6:09 PMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......bacon
Posted by Mark on July 13, 2007 11:06 PMBoy are we really enjoying ourselves! Ever since we passed through that gate, it's like being pampered at a posh day spa at an exclusive resort. Ahhhh, the mud is the perfect temperature. I can just feel my skin being cleansed as I lay here. The tensions of the day are melting away. I don't know why any of us were nervous about accepting Farmer Bates' invitation to be the first to experience this imported mud bath. Everything would be perfect if he would eliminate that bothersome noise by not running that darn sharpening Whee....... Uh Oh!
Posted by Willow on July 14, 2007 9:38 AMPrimordial swine? Jurassic Pork? Don't know if we can beat Swine Lake though, anyone who can devise a plan to drag the freakin' opera into this shot (thank you, JPH) has got to be the black belt comment guru!
Willow, you start it out so sweetly, but soon you're channeling Alfred Hitchcock......Hey Porky Pig, this ain't Motel 6.....check out time...save your bacon.....if only swine flew...(oops!)
And who better to shoot the three little pigs? That K woman!
JPH: I'll assume those are rhetorical questions! :)
Keith De-Lin: I've said this before, but I think there's a more interesting photo to be taken at a time like this - and that would be me getting into the trouble I get into while taking some of these shots! I got zapped TWICE by a portable electric fence while photographing these pigs! Maybe another photographer can follow me around and create "The Making of Durham Township."
Anyway, I wasn't IN the mud, but standing outside of it, although the piggies shook plenty of it onto the camera, my clothes and my sunglasses.
david hasselhoff: Nice to see a relevant statement from you.
david tinnon: Are you trying to hog-bait the viewers? One thing's for sure: we'll never get boared reading your thoughts! (I wonder if you're such a ham at home?)
Posted by Kathleen on July 14, 2007 12:56 PMThey're in hog heaven.
Sooo-eeeee. I nice to know others enjoy your blog and comments as much as I do. Looking forward to meeting you.
Posted by JPH on July 15, 2007 7:49 AMWonderful work here.
Posted by LwS on July 17, 2007 1:27 AMI have never, in my life, wanted to be a pig more than I do now.
Posted by La C. on July 17, 2007 12:53 PMGreat, funny photo. They seem really delici ... um, relaxed.
Posted by MarkDM on July 19, 2007 2:53 AMIntensive and nice, very funny...and I agree with the comment from MarkDM. ;-)
Posted by Lud@ on July 22, 2007 4:17 AMchocolates wallow
Posted by Keith on September 5, 2007 8:18 PM