[GUB]

THE SHEARER
Having been given the honour to compete in this 2nd round one of my personal aims is to give a New Zealand flavour to my submission.
What better opportunity could there be than to record my shearer, Keith, hard at work shearing my flock.
After all there is over six sheep for every person living in New Zealand.
Keith usually shears around 200 sheep in an 8 hour day so every sheep is shorn in a timeframe of less than 2 minutes. So you can understand this is action photography.
The art of shearing a sheep is with a set choreography of about 40 shearing “blows” depending very much on the cooperation of the sheep. And one of the key skills involved is the footwork that keeps control of the sheep.
Thank you for taking a glimpse of my world.

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[Arpe]

Great idea and great shot.

[bebeka]

Interesting photo and story! Why the power symmetry topic?

[GUB]

Interesting photo and story! Why the power symmetry topic?

From Wikipedia;
Symmetry (from Greek συμμετρία symmetria "agreement in dimensions, due proportion, arrangement")[1] in everyday language refers to a sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance.

The shearer and the sheep are in constant balance. Hold it wrong and it fights,shear too slow and it fights, get off balance and it senses it.
It is a highly skilled choreography repeated with each sheep.
Oh and "powerful": -- It is said a top shearer shearing 400 to 500 sheep a day runs a marathon a day.

[Joe2]

great photo. nominated