Jason Whong: Renaissance Man-in-Training

OK, so I am back from vacation with Erin. I took a lot of photos, and Erin took a few also. They’re posted in her Picasa account. So check them out!

I’ve been back to work for a few days. On my first day back, I got licked by a cow. The person I was trying to photograph told me “that cow likes to lick people. it’s coming for you.” I didn’t see it because I was looking into the camera. Then I felt its tongue on my arm. I let out a surprised yelp, and the cow kept pushing me, so that I could not line up the shot the way I wanted to.

The farmer told me to swat the cow, but I am inexperienced in such things, and didn’t want to make it angry or injure it. So I tapped it, and the farmer laughed at me. Then I slapped it so I could hear an audible smack, but that was not very hard, and the cow just sat there. Eventually I moved around the cow and got the shot I was looking for. But the cow continued to lick my other arm.

Later at the same shoot, i was licked by goats, but I was expecting that. What I didn’t expect was when I came home: Kelsey (remember Kelsey?) licked my feet. And then the cat licked me, too. So, all in all, Tuesday was a day of being licked by many animals. It doesn’t happen to me at work all that often, but I am sure nature photographers have to put up with animals licking them.