Dancing with the Cows

Published by Kurty Photography in Potraits · 5 February 2018
Tags: engagement, portraits, ;portrait, by, the, barn, rusty, portraits, portraits, in, afarm

Born and raised in Petaluma, Joseph has been visiting his friend at a barn on the mountain since high school. After the wedding proposal to his sweet heart Joanna, Joseph called me to shoot their engagement portraits at the barn.

On the way to Petaluma's country road, I was expecting to use a horse as the prop and was trying hard to compose some ideal shots in my head. But when I arrived the barn, I quickly found out that there were no horses but rather a bunch of cows!

So we crossed over the fence and carefully walked toward the cows to include them in the background. I remembered many years ago when I was driving in a remote area in Yakima, WA, I pulled over to a cow farm to take photos of the peaceful looking cows. As I approached closer to the fence, one of the cows was surprised by my presence and ran quickly toward my left. Suddenly the rest of the cows (hundreds of them) all charged in the same direction, and I was shocked and scared for my safety. So this time when I crossed over the fence to shoot the portrait, I was a bit hesitant. Foruntely, the cows were calm and just gazed us with curiosity from a distant. Thanksfully, we had some great shots.