Turkey Wrangler
15 Nov 2006 at 08:43 am | Tagged as: feature, Free Lance-Star


Joseph O’Maley, 17, tries not to slip and fall while rounding up turkeys for harvesting on Cibola Farms near Culpeper on November 14, 2006. The farm raised about 350 turkeys, Bourbon Red and Broad Breasted White varieties this year. They will be selling them directly to consumers from the farm and at local farmers markets in the area beginning this weekend.
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Feature Hunting….The editors were down with a funny picture instead of just the standard “process shots” of guys carrying turkeys to a truck. Sometimes you take a photo that’s not great compositionally, but is just plain funny. Emotional content and body language beat out composition here (i.e. top vs. bottom)
What makes this shot interesting to me is the background sky. The eerie clouds almost put a halo aroung the kids head yet the dark clounds seem to imply pending doom. As the group of birds flee the captured one prepares to meet his maker. Ahh, the destiny of the dining room table.