With the agricultural market turning more and more to the internet for sales and contacts, good pictures are essential to selling livestock. When a guy sends you an e-mail asking about that beautiful award-winning herd sire you have for sale, you can't run out the back door with your cellphone camera and send him the first picture you take (you know the one where the goat has his head turned upside down scratching his back and a big cut on his face from fighting the other bucks earlier that day). It doesn't portray the animal in an appealing (or even accurate) light. So how do you get good pictures?
The truth is you can't get the perfect picture every time - or even most of the time! Goats move too much, get distracted to easily, and seem to enjoy making funny faces at the exact second you snap their picture (see above). So what can you do? It's all about the math. If you go outside, take five photos, and then go home, you're probably not going to get any really good ones. But if you take 1000 pictures, you have a pretty high likelihood of getting at least one where (despite their best efforts) the goat actually looks pretty nice. Besides, they can only keep that funny look on their face for so long!
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