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Rural Moments - "Mater necessitas"

"His mother was eaten by wulf, other goats do not accept him, so... i am the mother"

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Boyana Petrova 4 weeks ago

nece :))

Katerina N 7 months ago

very sensitive!

miriam hamsa 8 months ago

Lovely.

fatmanur zengin 11 months ago

wonderful image! where is this place? turkey?

Rui Pires No, Fatmanur. This is in my home country, Portugal :)

Aissa Relberg 1 year ago

life

Codrin Lupei 1 year ago

Excellent, Rui, well done again! Congrats!

claudio vicente 1 year ago

extraordinária Rui..
abraço.

WK Chew 1 year ago

Lovely picture

VIHUDI (Vítor Santos) 1 year ago

Um momento de rara beleza, superiormente registado!!! Muito boa. Parabéns Rui.

Carlos Costa Branco 1 year ago

Mais um daqueles momentos...mais uma história que nos contas. Muito bem Rui, abraço.

Vlad Dumitrescu 1 year ago

great moment, great image, Rui! :o)

Brin 1 year ago

Wonderful image my friend!

Rui Pires Thank you very much, my friend :)

Jose Luis Cunha 1 year ago

Fantastica Rui, as ultimas que publicaste no olhares estão todas elas soberbas!

Rui Pires Obrigado, Zé :) Abraço !

gerard sexton 1 year ago

An age old ritual that has survival written all over it. One will not survive without the other & it works both ways. Terrific Rui a tender moment with a wonderful tale and I guess with your added narrative tells us that once man meddles with nature there are always consequences......

Rui Pires Thank you, Gerard :)

Ben Goossens 1 year ago

Emotional and technical: a winner:-)

Rui Pires I can´t take my eyes out from two superb masterpieces i have here framed in my office ;-) Thank you, my friend :)

Ben Goossens Thank you friend ...that's fast, and I'm gal you enjoy them:-)
How do your colleagues react on it?

Best, Ben

Rui Pires In early morning i need to dump out of my office a admirative and contemplative crowd ... or nobody will work here today :)))

Ben Goossens I'm sorry Rui, I hope the office company will survive it!!!

Rui Pires :))))

barbara 1 year ago

lovely.

Rui Pires Thank you, Barbara :)

Robert 1 year ago

This ois true goat love! But why they do not even control wulf population? I mean nothing against such.
Oh, very good picture!

Robert

Rui Pires No, Robert. If they try to control wulf population the "animal rights" people do lot of noise and manifestation ... until day a wulf eat the dog from one of this guys :))))

Ion Lacatus 1 year ago

Heart-warming and has that true-life aura that always create a stronger impact.

And a (tangent) curiosity: are there any wolves left in Portugal nowadays?

Rui Pires This is a true moment, Ion, not "staged". Yes, in Portugal wulf comunitys start to grow since some years ago when gov. forbinden wulf hunting. The trouble now is wulfs comunitys is increasing and attacks and eat goats, sheeps and other animals and that give many prejudice to farmers and rural people.

Ion Lacatus Oh, I never implied (or suspected) it was staged... this is precisely why I made the comment. It felt true and as I said this adds weight to the photo.
As far as wolves being "inconvenient", that's a long story and the reason why they where brought on the brink of extintion. Romania is home to the largest population of wolves in Europe (2500-4000 depending on the estimate) and yet in the big picture the damage they do is minimal. Of course "the big picture" is little consolation to a (poor) farmer who lost his only cow. But then a proper compensation scheme can easily be implemented so that we can save both the wolf and the farmer. And NO, compensation for wolves attack is not the cause of the multi-billion dollars government deficits (LOL).

Rui Pires You have right, Ion. The big problem it is the fact that is almost impossible for a poor farmer proof the reason of the cow dead is caused by wulfs. Need a lot of papers, vet proof,local police, lose of time, so, almost impossible get compensation. For rich farmers is easy.

Ion Lacatus I hear you. Read the newspapers nowadays and you get dizzy with the kind of numbers you find (most people wouldn't even know how many zeros in a trillion). And yet when it comes to reimbursing a peasant for a lost goat all of a sudden you need the approval of a dozen local and ten national authorities, NATO, UN, EU and the Holy Pope. It's the same all over the place (not just in Portugal).
Anyway, I think I got carried away so I'll stop here. This is a photography site (not for social/political debate :) ) so let me congratulate you once more for the photo and I hope for more in the future.