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Farm Life: A Collection of Animal Portraits
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224 pages, Hardcover
Published September 10, 2024
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September 18, 2025
Pretty, competent photographs but mostly lacking in spark or spontaneity. There are a few that are fun and playful and unique (mostly chickens), but most are pretty standard angles or popular breeds. I don’t feel like I actually am seeing the “soul” of the animals, they’re just goofy senior yearbook pictures.
The horse photos and highland cows look like any cheap art you can buy at any home goods store. As do the generic goofy shaved alpaca photos. I’m so sick of highland cow art. It’s always a cow staring at you on a boring white background.
It’s supposed to be “farm life” and yet it doesn’t actually capture life on a farm. It’s a bunch of mostly fancy breed animals in a studio on white or black backgrounds. I don’t really think of Arabian horses as “farm horses.” Why not some Belgians?
The text is generic and boring to read. There’s very little about the unique breeds or individual animals. Vague nonsense that very rarely provides interesting insight.
One of the most impressive shots to me is the hummingbird. It’s gorgeous and seems like a very hard photo to capture. But why are baby raccoons and hummingbirds and wildlife included in farm life? Sure you can argue they can wander onto farms, but they’re not really farm animals.
The book is so randomly organized- I would rather have a section on different horses then birds etc. Is it to try to hide how many of these pictures are just Arabian horses and Highland cows?
The horse photos and highland cows look like any cheap art you can buy at any home goods store. As do the generic goofy shaved alpaca photos. I’m so sick of highland cow art. It’s always a cow staring at you on a boring white background.
It’s supposed to be “farm life” and yet it doesn’t actually capture life on a farm. It’s a bunch of mostly fancy breed animals in a studio on white or black backgrounds. I don’t really think of Arabian horses as “farm horses.” Why not some Belgians?
The text is generic and boring to read. There’s very little about the unique breeds or individual animals. Vague nonsense that very rarely provides interesting insight.
One of the most impressive shots to me is the hummingbird. It’s gorgeous and seems like a very hard photo to capture. But why are baby raccoons and hummingbirds and wildlife included in farm life? Sure you can argue they can wander onto farms, but they’re not really farm animals.
The book is so randomly organized- I would rather have a section on different horses then birds etc. Is it to try to hide how many of these pictures are just Arabian horses and Highland cows?
January 10, 2025
Outstanding photographs. I was raised on a farm and all of the photos are interesting. I loved the photo of Ruby Rose a Pink Piglet that accompanies the Foreword.
March 2, 2025
Loved all the photographs and the accompanying descriptions since this time I knew to flip to the end. Also enjoyed the humor behind some of the photo shoots.
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