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Showcasing the brazen and nouveau in English communication.

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Photographer wants to take cool photo, inadvertently discovers sheep physics. (infosec.pub)
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[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here’s one from the photographer’s own website!

I was curious too because the guy’s name is literally Wolinski. Seemed a little on-the-nose.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Excellent, thanks for the research and the link!

Gotta love the other extreme.

Went from text laden screenshot to text only photography page that as a bonus is completely unreadable due to the poor colour contrast between background and text, not to mention completely ignoring my phone being in dark mode.

This is all kinds of levels of odd.

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It does work great in a “reader” mode, though!

His original words are worth reading I think.

As a result the first sheep never achieved stardom. Nor did the second, the 19th or the 27th. We tried shearing them front to back as well as side-to-side. The well planned, half day photo shoot was trying the patience of not only the generous grazier but of the 12 motorcycle shepherds who locked arms to create a human fence around each sheep while I attempted to make a picture.

The camera shutter clattered and 72,000 watt-seconds of flash bathed number 30 in light with a happy popping sound. The picture ran as the lead shot in my National Geographic article about wool. Number 30 went on to hire an agent and is looking for new bookings.

I liked that cute little last line.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 4 points 1 week ago

Changing to a third browser and engaging reader mode, I have now read the article which as you point out is absolutely worth reading and in many ways it too is as whimsical as the photo.

What a wild ride.