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Cowscapes by Rachel Sudlow

Moo-ve over Ansel Adams, there's a new landscape photographer in town.These are called "Cowscapes", and are by Rachel Sudlow, who lives in Kansas and is a recent RISD grad.

This is a project that has been a few years in the making. Ms. Sudlow says she "shoots from an angle and closeness that (the cow's) fur becomes a new landscape when paired with intense blue skies."

We find the images to be both hysterical and lovely at the same time.

Prints can come in all sizes,(8x10 - 30x30"). The images can be seen on her website.

Comments (9)

Rachael's photographs blend simplicity and sharp-focus organic detail ... they'd bring blue skies to any space!

posted by Jacqui! on 2006-01-18 12:57:56

hysterical. really made me laugh. there's a freshness about them that appeals to me. thanks.

posted by barbara on 2006-01-18 13:37:24

Good stuff on her website!

posted by Enrique on 2006-01-18 17:20:22

These pieces are amazing. I really love the simplicity. They do feel very fresh and airy. You can almost hear the peripheral Moo-ing!
Love these!

posted by Michelle Caplan on 2006-01-19 08:31:15

These are great..so clever!

posted by Turquoise on 2006-01-19 10:29:04

Outstanding!!!!!!

posted by peggy wright on 2006-01-19 12:25:29

Nice work but totally derivative of the photog Leon Steele (whose work you can see here: http://www.leonsteele.com/. Click on Folder Five for his take on the cow as landscape. Steele's pictures are 3 to 5 years old.

posted by slash on 2006-01-19 14:13:35

DAMN! I'd never seen those before. I started doing these as a way of taking portraits of my own pets- and morphed it into my thesis project to relate to the midwest, a more site-specific project than his. Though it'd be really cool to shoot pictures of a camel......

posted by Rachael on 2006-01-19 14:33:43

these images are So Funny! Derivative? Only if they are. Looks more like the collective unconscious at work here.

posted by revisited on 2006-01-25 19:29:30