Spent a short photo session for Organic Free Range Turkeys with photographer Isabelle Plasschaert yesterday, who’s growing her portfolio on British Food. The weather was very kind to us, a sunny October day.
Sheepdrove Organic Farm’s free-range birds were a sight Isabelle had never seen before, with woodland edge habitats and herb-rich pastures to roam, not to mention renewable energy! Yes, solar photovoltaic panels and wind turbines recharge the batteries driving their feeders.
The organic turkeys are getting ready for Christmas of course. (Order your Organic Xmas Turkey now!) They are impressive birds, and as a flock they are enchanting! Okay, perhaps not the most handsome of poultry, but they are quirky, curious, and friendly. They make huge amounts of noise too, when they get going and start calling in chorus.
Yesterday I didn’t have time to take my proper camera, so I only took a few shots and video clips. Some of my better photographs of Organic Free Range Turkeys are up for sale on the Photographers Direct website
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Isabelle said “The turkeys surrounded me as if I were a big celeb they wanted a glimpse off, some even dared to peck the lens. It was truly hilarious to see them follow me from one end to the other, as if I was some pack leader they blindly followed, screaming loudly and enthusiastically.”
“It also eroded the distrust I somehow had of the Free Range label… never being quite sure how truly free range those animals live. At Sheepdrove they are SO free range that the chickens astonished me for not using all their available space … they seemed to stay close to their own houses, gardens and hedges.”
Take a look at Isabelle’s pictures here.
I have pictures of plucked turkeys here!
You can buy my images as digital stock at Photographers Direct
© Jason Ball
