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Horses Contained

Now and then, while traveling home from school, I saw these two Dutch horses grazing in a sea of fence posts. Along with the way these fields looked during mist...
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Now and then, while traveling home from school, I saw these two Dutch horses grazing in a sea of fence posts. Along with the way these fields looked during mist, this was one of the main things that caused the thought of taking up photography to linger around my head. Eventually, a few months ago, I picked up an old Revue ML I got from an old lady living nearby, added a Soviet Helios44M from eBay, got myself a roll of Fujifilm Superia 400 and took it all to school the next morning, to greatly extend the duration of my 10 km bike ride home. When I met the horses, they were standing exactly where I wanted them, even after I was done adjusting everything on my full-manual Soviet setup. So I fired, and once I got to see the results after a few months, I was quite pleased about the composition, that was exactly like I had planned it. It gives off a very specific vibe, which I have but once seen in a picture of a bunch chickens under a grey sky, and I like it.
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