Press photographer – a dream job, right? Well, not for one regional daily snapper.
For Northern Echo photographer Sarah Caldecott was tasked with getting a close up – of a cow’s udder.
Echo editor Peter Barron blogged about how the paper was covering a story about an “exhibitor being banned from the Great Yorkshire Show after being found guilty of udder-tampering.”
This is apparently “a heinous crime in the agricultural world, aimed at making cows more likely to win prestigious prizes.”
News editor Andrew Douglas wanted a picture to illustrate the story, so Sarah was given the instruction: “Get out there and get me a close-up of an udder.”
Sarah is pictured out on the job below.
As Peter points out it could have could have been worse – the story could have been about bull testicle tampering.
The full udder tampering can be seen here.
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Pull the udder one! I was once sent to a dog shelter on a remote mountain to photograph an alasation which needed re-homing. The gentleman looking after it brought it out and I started photographing it. Two girls on horseback passed by the farm gate which caused the dog to go bonkers and viciously bite its handler who let go of the dog. It then jumped into my car which was an estate as Id left the door open in the farmyard.
I promptly slammed the door shut and was stuck on the mountain for the next couple of hours with a mad dog in the back of my car as the poor gent was driven to hospital by his wife and a dog warden was called.
Sadly it didn’t end well for the dog.
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An editor of a national daily once demanded his picturedesk find him a pic of a happy hedgehog.
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I bet Sarah thought “pull the udder one” when she was given the assignment!
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I was once asked when on a Picture Desk to find a picture of otters swimming holding hands as the duty editor had heard that’s what they do…
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Back in the day, a Bournemouth Echo hack – it may have been Tim Walker – wrote a Poole Arts Centre theatrical review featuring the description of a scene as having the ‘sound of a cow’s udder being squeezed.’ No, me neither…
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Surely there are plenty of stock images that could have been used for this.
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