Category: Animals

The Dog Barber

This is another shot that I’ve posted before, but since I re-edited it I figured I’d put it up again. We spotted this gentleman on our travels through Rome, outside of a residence on Vicolo del Cedro. He held his dogs with one hand while he trimmed their fur with a pair of scissors in the other, leaving little piles of curls on the cobblestone below. I wonder if those dogs knew how bad it could have turned out for them if they were to fidget or move suddenly during their trim.

Kissing Kitties Redux

As I said yesterday, I’ve re-edited some of my photos from my Italy trip and will be reposting  a few here. This is one of them. From my photo essay on The Cats of Largo Argentina in Rome, these are the first two felines I had the pleasure of shooting as they were going in for a peck.

A Horse, Of Course

A Quebecois horse, to be specific. I suppose that would make it a cheval.

This beautiful creature was refueling in the heart of the old city of Quebec before going back to his day job of pulling tourists through the cobblestone streets in a carriage.

Photographed September, 2011

Who Says Pigs Are Clean?

Have you ever heard someone say, “You know, pigs are one of the cleanest animals”? Evidently, anyone who tells you that is a liar.

Take the above pigs, who I shot at Centre Island. Minutes before this shot was taken I was holding my niece so that she could see over the fence and get a glimpse at the “piggies.” She was so happy to see them, despite the rancid smell that was emanating from the muck they were basking in. I put my niece down and decided to take a shot of the  pigs before moving on when one of the ones near the fence stood up, turned in a circle and then belly-flopped back into the muck.

I say muck and not mud because the smell clearly indicated that there was much more than just wet dirt beneath those pigs. When the one flopped back down, he sent a wave of muck my way and it splattered all over my shorts and legs.

I was so angry. I cursed and swore at that pig, once I ensured that my niece was out of earshot. I didn’t feel completely better until I returned home though, and made a ham sandwich.

Barbary Sheep

I shot this photo of a barbary sheep last month in High Park. He was sitting in the shade and not looking too impressed with the heat wave we were enduring at the time. This is a beautiful, graceful, powerful creature and, I’ll add, the easiest animal to shoot. It posed like this until I finished shooting, and when I stood up it turned to grab a drink. A real pro, this sheep.