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Photobygms,

Your rainy day pictures are so nice! I really liked seeing them with the clouds. The photo of the cow is your best yet of these animals. 😀 With a relatively short focal length for great depth of field and good composition, it makes it tops for me. 😀 👍 That's a neat looking cow bell around the neck.

Wow...that's incredible all the traveling you all have been doing with all those trains and cablecars. Have lots more fun!

Photobygms,

You should enter the cow in the Lonly Benches Thread 😀

PS: Your scenic shots are spectacular.

Steve Thomas

Thanks guys! About that cow and the bench, think the cow had a bad day somehow and not in a good mood 😉
An american couple walked up there short before we got there (we were all on the way to a viewingpoint at Männlichen) They wanted to sit there but that cow didn't let them.That cow really protected that bench, that couple did almost ran away after she was about to use her horns😐

Photobygms,

I liked hearing your story about the cow and the bench. Often there's more to a photograph than what we can see.

Alan,

What was your first clue? 😀

Steve Thomas

From what I read....

"Technically bulls are male and cows are female, but generally you can just call a herd cows and most people don't care. It's a broad enough term for cattle."

If I don't know, I just consider it a cow as a gender-neutral term. Those horns looked small enough for me to not be a bull, but I don't know about that variety. We could say bovine or cattle. But for most people they don't care (as stated), like they don't care about the technical aspects of photography and just use their cell phones. 😀

OK, I'm off to the beach today and tomorrow. So I will be away from the boards for a while. 😀 So, meanwhile keep those photos and discussions coming! 😀

Well to give the definitive correct answer, she is a cow not a bull 😜
Got some proof available:

And to continue with the other photos:
After some cloudy days with some rain, today is was perfect again:

The rain in the valley is snow higher up. Some fresh snow on the higher peaks:

A herd of beeves ...

Photobygms,

Thanks for the clarification. A cow it is. 😀 I'm back from the beach. Even though it was foggy, the fog lifted enough for me to get a huge amount of photos. Now I have to review and post process them. It will be several hours. I overdid it with three different cameras and lenses.

Photobygms,

Your photos are spectacular. I especially like the first two. I love that blue sky.

A few from today

I swear these guys eat something that gets them high. Rainbow Lorikeets

White Faced Heron

Tau Emerald

Common Bluetail - female

Nice shots @Bryan👍

A few from yesterday, a day with some nice hiking weather, we followed a trail that got us close to the Eiger Nordwand.

And a gear shot 😀

I did use the Eos R with the RF14-35F4L and the Eos 5DIV with the EF28-300L as seen in the picture
And we both do use small day backpacks or bigger backpacks when needed with Peakdesign clips for our cameras. The extra set of legs (or better known as hiking poles) that can be very handy when hiking on loose gravel and steep inclines.
And two bottles (750ml) with water mixed with Dextro Energy