Bird Art

[NQ6U]

This reminds me of a Japanese brush painting. It was one of those photos where I didn't even know what I had until I saw it on my computer screen; some of my best work has been done by accident.

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/BirdArt3.jpg

[W3MIV]

Nice shot, but mis-labeled. This is bird art (http://www.andyward.co.uk/img/portfolios/projects/portraits/charlie-parker.jpg).

[kf0rt]

Nice shot, but mis-labeled. This is bird art (http://www.andyward.co.uk/img/portfolios/projects/portraits/charlie-parker.jpg).

Nice flower pot.
(You knew it was coming.)

ETA: been looking for the B&W bird animation that one of the movie (TV?) studios uses as a lead-in, but can't find it.

[NQ6U]

Nice flower pot.
(You knew it was coming.)

Never did care for Mr. Jack much.

[kf0rt]

Never did care for Mr. Jack much.

Whiskey is a taste I'm probably better off not acquiring. :lol:

[NQ6U]

Whiskey is a taste I'm probably better off not acquiring. :lol:

I'll drink single malt Scotch and I have to admit a taste for Canadian whiskey but, for the most part, I've always preferred my liquors to be of a lighter shade. Tequila has been a favorite.

[kc7jty]

Birds are a curse, especially these fuckers:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_91wEXEZ2Srk/STxb8Nqi8lI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/4f4nsPrCbg8/s400/grackle8.jpg

They sometimes number a thousand here in the summer. They work in packs, rip the felt insulators between the concrete sections of the driveway and sidewalk out looking for bugs and SHIT all over EVERYTHING.
They were so bad one year the roofs in the hood started turning white from all the poo.

[KG4CGC]

This reminds me of a Japanese brush painting. It was one of those photos where I didn't even know what I had until I saw it on my computer screen; some of my best work has been done by accident.

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/BirdArt3.jpg
Very cool. I took a similar type of picture sans birds and eventually ended up with this.
Cleek heer (http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Sativa%20Shatchi%20Billy%20Bidet%203-22-08/Paint_Streaks_09copy.jpg)

[NQ6U]

Birds are a curse, especially these fuckers

Could be worse. We have wild parrots around here.

[NQ6U]

Neat, Charles. How did you apply that texture?

[KG4CGC]

Neat, Charles. How did you apply that texture?
Only to the top layer containing the branches and dots. Then bevel and contour.

[kc7jty]

Could be worse. We have wild parrots around here.

Oh Krice! I had them when I lived in El Paso. What a bunch of screaching noise they (hundreds of them) make. Easy to scare off with some loud hand claps though.

[NQ6U]

Oh Krice! I had them when I lived in El Paso. What a bunch of screaching noise they make. Easy to scare off with some loud hand claps though.

Parrots in general are nasty little f*ckers. My XYL had one when we met and the first ten years we were together. Here's a picture of him:

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/smallrot.jpg

Looks innocent enough, doesn't he? But the little bastard hated me and tried to bite me at every possibly opportunity. He succeeded more than once, too, and I still have the scars to prove it. We finally had to find another home for him.

[kc7jty]

Reminds me of the swearing parrot joke.
Guy has a parrot that always swore really bad, gets fed up and throws it into the freezer. After a minute feels bad and opens door, bird is shivering and says OK I'll never swear again. Guy removes bird, bird says I only have one question "What did the chicken do?"

[NQ6U]

Yeah, that was one of my favorites!

[W3MIV]

We finally had to find another home for him.

Perdue?

[NQ6U]

Perdue?

Foster Farms--Purdue is in Arkansas, too far away.

[kc7jty]

On the Delmarva in Salisbury, MD.

[W3MIV]

Foster Farms--Purdue is in Arkansas, too far away.

Purdue is a university in Indiana. Perdue is the second largest chicken processor in the nation (second only to Tyson in Arkansas) and, as Bill points out, is located on the Delmarva Peninsula, with main offices in Salisbury. When I wrote for Perdue more than ten years ago, they were processing over a million chickens per day. Perdue is still a privately held corporation.

That is some bird art!

[kc7jty]

Purdue is a university in Indiana. Perdue is the second largest chicken processor in the nation (second only to Tyson in Arkansas) and, as Bill points out, is located on the Delmarva Peninsula, with main offices in Salisbury. When I wrote for Perdue more than ten years ago, they were processing over a million chickens per day. Perdue is still a privately held corporation.

That is some bird art!

What did you write for Perdue Alb?

[W3MIV]

What did you write for Perdue Alb?

Technically, I should say I wrote ABOUT Perdue, interviewing Frank and Jim on several occasions for articles I wrote about Perdue and Perdue growers for Farm Credit's quarterly magazine. I also shot lots of photos in various chicken houses on the Sho' for the articles, and also for the Md Dept of Ag, Soil Conservation folks. I have probably inhaled more dried chicken shit than I care to remember. Eaten more than my fair share of flies after the dead birds were culled. :roll:

Frank Perdue was a great guy, but his son is a better business manager than his father. He has taken Perdue into a pretty big array of value-added products, and he has underwriten a process and built a plant that reprocesses chicken flickin's mucked out of his chicken houses into pelletized fertilizer for use on certified organic fruits and veggies (I shot a series of photographs from the inside of a chicken house as it was being mucked out :yuck: ).

All of that was almost ten years ago; I have since retired, but I still shoot for the MDA on occasion. I was planning to go out to shoot this past spring just before the "extravaganza on the stairs" took me out for a bunch of months. :wall: