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Posted: 29 Dec 2014

Taken: 27 Dec 2014

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Lapua •
häst •
Suomi •
Finland •
hevonen •
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muzzle •
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outdoors •
ears •
head •
horse •
pferd •
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cheval •
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Horse with no name

Horse with no name
This is my second picture ever. I took it with my first camera, Yashica TL Electro X slr. I was 13 or 14, and the horse was awfully big and I remember being afraid of it. I was also afraid of my new camera and that the horse might eat it. He didn't, not even the film, which is Kodak Plus X Pan. The sun had already set, so the slow shutter speed may explain the softness.

Edit 5.4.2015: At the closer inspection of my negatives it looks like this was my second shot outdoors; prior to this I had taken two or three indoor pictures of my little brother, probably the same day or the previous one.

Boro, , Bruce Dean (Puchinpappy), and 12 other people have particularly liked this photo

12 comments - The latest ones
 Sami Serola (inactive)
Sami Serola (inactiv…
Great shot! =) I can't remember my first shots, but surely they were not as good as this. At age of 13 I knew nothing about good compositions or how to handle a camera.
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to Sami Serola (inactiv…
Sami, you don't have to know anything about compositions. It is all there on call, and any theory may just confuse your inner eye. :)
9 years ago.
Sami Serola (inactiv… has replied to Spo
You are right about theories, but on my early photography I knew nothing about basic things like daring to go close enough the subject. Like you did in here, despite the fact you were afraid of the horse =)
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to Sami Serola (inactiv…
Well, you don't have to go close. In fact you don't have to show the subject at all: one aspiring photographer had visited his big sister studying in the city, and had shot her dorm building from the outside. Under the picture it said: "Her window is in the top row at the right, the first outside the frame." It worked like a charm - and even managed to bring about the idea how dull and ugly the dorm houses are without actually saying it. :)
9 years ago.
Sami Serola (inactiv… has replied to Spo
Ha ha! =D Good example how wonderful art form photography is =)

Happy New Year, Seppo <=)
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to Sami Serola (inactiv…
You too, Sami. I Should visit Vapriikki some day.
9 years ago.
 Don Sutherland
Don Sutherland club
Awesome capture.
9 years ago.
 Jim Kerslake
Jim Kerslake club
Brilliant photo...

>> What if our photographic eye is defined at the very moment we compose our first picture, and we just basically take that same picture all over again all our lives?

It feels like that to me sometimes... I make huge efforts in trying to escape that sameness (like buying different format cameras) and it still comes right back :)
9 years ago.
 Jaap van 't Veen
Jaap van 't Veen club
Lovely 'portrait'.
9 years ago.
 beverley
beverley
o0o I like the expression the horse has .... a little bit bemused I think ;-)
probably sensed it was your first attempt maybe ;-) oOo
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to beverley
Perhaps it sensed my futile attempt both on itself and on the camera. :-)
9 years ago.
beverley has replied to Spo
I think they know and sense more than they let on sometimes ;-)
9 years ago.

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