With the advent of warmer weather and the promise of spring, much work needs to be done at the Farm. One of those tasks is re-shoeing the oxen after the winter footwear has worn down. This is painstaking work and the beast likes to thrash around, but it is very interesting to watch and record. I used three lenses - the Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8, Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 and the Nikon 12-24mm, the latter often with diffusion on the SB-800.
The blood is not normal, the shoe needed to be heated as to effect cauterization of the cuts.
